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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-06-28 ADM/A/1808/287
An account of money disbursed by William Meester, Comptroller General, for several ships to fix the new invented machines, and also for repairing, victualling and fitting out ships and paying of seamen's wages of the said ships, of which several are now at sea with the main fleet.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-05-18 ADM/A/1809/24
Extract of a letter from George Camocke First Lieutenant of the LOYAL MERCHANT Hired ship at Cadiz relating how he went aboard Rear Admiral Nevil's ship with Captain's, Purser's and Muster Master's book which he claimed showed irregularities concerning the recording of the desert…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-05-25 ADM/A/1809/22
Enclosure: Letter dealing with irregularities in the recording of the desertion of William Lee and Richard Swanton at Gibraltar or Cadiz. Comments are made about the persons who reported the irregularities and doubt is cast on their ultimate integrity. Signed by D.W. (illegible), naval official.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-07-02 ADM/A/1809/44
Extract of a letter from Captain Douglas in which he relates that in unmooring his ships collided with the Sheerness Galley whereupon two of his men swan across to the Hulk and made off in one of her boats.…