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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1688-04-03
ADM/A/1758/181
Lord Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, has complained of the unfitness of the Yacht attending the Island, and referring us to Captain Cotton for advice on such other Yacht or vessel he judges proper .
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-13
ADM/A/1758/218
Direct the Tellers and Clerks attending the pay at Portsmouth to return to London with pay in their custody, leaving only with Sir Richard Beach (Navy Commisioner there) sufficient to pay off the RUPERT's men when ready at Spithead.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-10
ADM/A/1758/207
Give directions to the Commisioners of Victualing to send immediately from Plymouth, either to Chester or Liverpool, one months provisions for each of the JERSEY and SWALLOW, some of your Board members having advised that the same cannot be procured at these places.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-08
ADM/A/1758/203
Direct you according to your opinion given in your letter of yesterday's date to cause the several Longboats which were provided last summer for ships in Chatham Harbour, and ordered to be launched and fitted with Guns and small Arms for Harbour security, to be brought on shore and housed as th…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-13
ADM/A/1758/216
Direct the Fireship SPEEDWELL to be laid up at Portsmouth, and her men turned over into the YORK by Order of Admiral Herbert.
Also inform what ship will be fitted to replace the SPEEDWELL.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-12
ADM/A/1758/212
Direct the hire of two Ketches or other vessels of 60 or 70 tons each, to be victualled and manned for four months certain, and longer as the voyage shall be, for carrying advices to the West Indies, and to be discharged on completion of this service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1688-03-21
ADM/A/1758/23
Hire immediately sufficient ships for transporting 1500 men from Liverpool to Londonderry and furnished with 12 days provisions. Give an account of your proceedings in the last shipping directed on like service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-16
ADM/A/1758/228
Having appointed Captain Edmund Elliot to the command of the CENTURION at Chatham, direct you order the turning over of the men in the SALLY ROSE into her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-15
ADM/A/1758/226
Captain Thomas Legg petitions for payment of his wages while serving on the PHOENIX under various qualifications on a voyage to the East Indies.
Agree payment accordingly.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-18
ADM/A/1758/236
We approve of your opinion that Milford is most proper for a Victualling port for the Irish squadron, and direct you lodge sufficient quantity of Victuals there, with an Agent from the Commissioner of Victualling appointed for issuing same to the Fleet on the Coast of Ireland.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-18
ADM/A/1758/234
You informed that the OWNERS LOVE and THOMAS ELIZABETH were ready to receive men and provisions, and advising it necessary to appoint their commanders.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-20
ADM/A/1758/245
Direct the BRISTOL to be laid up at Portsmouth and paid off, and such of her Company as now on the RUPERT be paid on board that ship as soon as she arrives at Spithead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-20
ADM/A/1758/251
Give orders for the fitting of the Yacht PORTSMOUTH, now at Deptford, for service in the Channel, manning her with her highest Complement, and supplied with appropriate provisions and stores.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-23
ADM/A/1758/259
Are sending several Packets mentioned overleaf in pursuance of HM command from HM Principal Secretary of State, the Earl of Shrewsbury, which directs you to dispatch immediately to the two hired vessels to the Plantations with Orders to their respective Masters that one of them go directly to Bermu…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-19
ADM/A/1761/214
Condition Report. Signed by Daniel Jones.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-03
ADM/A/1776/384
Enclosure: Extract of a letter from Colonel Codrington to the Committee of Trade and Plantations as concerning Item 383 above.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1761/289
Not Used
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1776/49
Slip with title "The humble petition of James Foxley". No date recorded.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-08-15
ADM/A/1776/45
Enclosure: Abstract of service of James Foxley in the JERSEY, PLYMOUTH and MONCK., signed by Nathaniel Whitfield, Chief Clerk of the Navy Board, Ticket Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1761/31
Sheet with calculations.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-08-17
ADM/A/1776/69
Enclosure: Estimate of wages due to the SWALLOW, MORDANT and RICHMOND up to the 1st March last.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-05-25
ADM/A/1761/30
Account of expenses for transporting men in the George. Signed by Captain John Frankmoor.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1761/238
Account of Smacks taken up to attend the manning of several Ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-09-15
ADM/A/1776/237
Enclosure: Bill of Imprest
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