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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1776/333
Continuation of Item 332
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-02
ADM/A/1776/352
Enclosure: Service record of William Burley showing that he served in two ships only for a total period in excess of twenty-six years, signed by Nathan Whitfold.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-15
ADM/A/1760/156
Request an account in writing how they make contracts for hiring ships, signed by John Nicholas.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-20
ADM/A/1760/206
Their Majesties Stores not being able to comply with your directions to supply small vessals with Saker. We transmit an account of guns available for sale and by whom, signed Middleton, Townsend, Officers of the Ordnance.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-22
ADM/A/1760/229
To provide a ship to carry 31 casks of bread to Londonderry from Exeter, signed John Nicholas.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1688-05-19
ADM/A/1759/82
Enclosure: Certificates signed by J. O'Farrell and G. MacGill.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-01
ADM/A/1760/10
Petition from William Coats
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1688-05-22
ADM/A/1759/98
Estimate of the wages due to the DRAGON.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-01
ADM/A/1760/12
Note states that Rice Herbert, Boatswain the Hulk at Deptford borne on the books as a Rigger 1674, signed by M Clarke.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-06-23
ADM/A/1768/288
Enclosure. Unsigned copy of a letter from Jonathan Gunden at Cadiz in which he informs about damage to the LEOPARD on passage and that the PORTUGAL [Pirick] brought in from Algier has been found unfit and broken up at Gibraltar.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-07-07
ADM/A/1768/24
Navy Board Commissioners are required to attend at the Treasury as of today's date.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-07-23
ADM/A/1768/142
Enclosing an extract of a letter from Sir John Ashby Commander in Chief at the Nore compaining of lack of supplies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1768/166
Petition to the Treasury from the inhabitants of Rochester, Strood and Chatham for the payment of debts to local suppliers for the maintenance of French sick and wounded following a recent naval engagement.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-07-25
ADM/A/1768/177
Extract of a letter from Captain Kirke of the SALLY ROSE at Spithead informing that when he joined the ship there was no Bosun aboard and that he had been absent two months together with his stores.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-07-31
ADM/A/1768/173
Enclosure. List of the Tenders in the Thames containg the names of vessels used as tenders, their type, the ship they belong to, the officers on board and the business they are engaged in. The list names twenty three vessels.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-01
ADM/A/1760/345
Attend Committee for affairs of Ireland, with an account of what shipping there is at Chester, Liverpool,Whitehaven, and Wirkinton for transport of men and horses into Ireland, signed by John Nicholas.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1760/66
Copy letter from George Major, gunner, the CORONATION.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-06-07
ADM/A/1760/72
Andrew Cotton aboard CHARLOTTE, on station between Guernsey and Jersey, requests more guns and men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1759/130
An estimate of wages due to the ASSISTANCE between July 1687 and June 1689. n.d.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1759/136
Estimate of wages due to the MONMOUTH Yatch for service between December 1687 and May 1689. n.d.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1759/135
List of ensigns and pennants required for 3rd, 4th and 5th Rates. n.d.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1688-03-11
ADM/A/1758/91
Desire you direct that the Complements of the PENDENNIS and RUPERT be completed to the numbers appointed by the Establishment for War at home, the former by turning over so many out of NEWCASTLE as shall make up that number, and the latter by turning over the BRISTOL's Company , and so many of …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1759/113
Slip attached to cover sheet naming the RESOLUTION and the JOHANNA at Blackwall. n.d.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-04-20
ADM/A/1758/241
A List of three vessels taken up for transportation of 500 men and 30 Horse from the River to Holland, signed John Bowyer.
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