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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-17 ADM/A/1842/230
Warrant for the appointment of William Wood to be Boatswain of the ASSOCIATION.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-11 ADM/A/1772/51
We direct you to cause the FANFAN to be refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel, and furnished with three months victuals or as much as she can conveniently stow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-11 ADM/A/1772/55
We direct you to cause the GREYHOUND (now at Gravesend) to be furnished with two months victuals for her complement of Men, and that all possible dispatch be made in sending the same on board her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/242
Sometime since we directed you to cause one of the sixth Rates in the River to be payed with a new Composition invented by Mr Charles Ardesais, and he has informed us that following your directions he went to Deptford in order to do this with the HENRY Prize, but she had been payed before with ordi…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/236
John Sewers Boatswain, John Dodson Gunner, and James Burton Carpenter of the JOSEPH Fireship in the Downs, have irregularly signed a Paper and transmitted it to this Board, representing that the Ship is not in a condition for the Sea, for which we have ordered their being dismissed from their Employ…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/238
Having ordered the MEDWAY to sail to Portsmouth or Plymouth to be refitted, we do hereby direct you upon her arrival at either of those places to cause her to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-16 ADM/A/1772/71
We are informed by your letter of the 11th inst; that the new Fireship building in this River by Mr Jonas Shish is designed to be launched on Saturday next.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-17 ADM/A/1772/77
We direct you to make allowance of Pay to Captain Pomeroy (who died of wounds received in the engagement with the French last Summer) as Captain of the RUPERT for the time he served in her, by virtue of an order of the Earl of Torrington, then Admiral of the Fleet, notwithstanding he did not have …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-17 ADM/A/1842/222
We direct you to cause to be imprest to Mr Edward Whittaker, Solicitor for for the Affairs of this and your Office, the sum of four hundred pounds, to enable him to perform the duty of his employment.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-15 ADM/A/1842/216
In pursuance of an Order from the Lords Justices in Council dated May 6th we direct you to cause to be paid to William Marchant of Guernsey, or such person as he shall appoint, the sum of ten pounds disbursed by him for keeping a fire on a point off the Island by Order of the late Lord Berkeley whil…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-06 ADM/A/1772/21
We have appointed Lambert Blackwell as their Majesties' Consul at Leghorn to take care of furnishing any of their Majesties' Ships which come into that Port with such Stores and Necessaries as necessary for them to be supplied with.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-18 ADM/A/1820/148
Captain James Jesson is to be paid as Commander of the WINCHELSEA from the time any of her men were entered on her tender, ready to serve in her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-04 ADM/A/1772/15
We direct you to sign Bills on the Treasurer of the Navy for the Pay of the Earl of Torrington as Admiral of the Fleet from the 20th April last, the date of his Commission, to the 6th of August following, the date of the Joint Admirals Commission, according to the same rate at which his Lordship was…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-04 ADM/A/1772/17
Their Majesties' Proclamation dated January 15th last was for the encouragement of Seamen to enter themselves voluntarily into this service, and promised Bounty Money in the proportions therein expressed, unto such as shall enter themselves within the times limited thereby.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-19 ADM/A/1820/156
The men employed by Mr Murtess on the ships destined to become Machine Vessels are to be victualled on board those ships excepting men who are to victual themselves by charter party.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-10 ADM/A/1772/39
We direct you to give Orders to Captain Greenhill, Agent for the Navy at Plymouth, that as any of the Officers of their Majesties' Ships employed to the Westward in pressing Men for the Fleet shall have an occasion for any Vessels to bring such Men to as they press to the Fleet, that he take ca…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-10 ADM/A/1772/45
We direct you to cause all such Officers now belonging to their Majesties Navy, Yards, and Ships, as have not renewed their Commissions or Warrants for their respective employments since their Majesties' accession to the Crown, to be forthwith suspended from their said employments.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-06 ADM/A/1772/29
We are informed by the Cashier to the Treasurer of the Navy that in the last week there is appointed the sum of four thousand pounds, part of the Money appropriated by Act of Parliament for the service of the Navy.
We direct you to apply this Money as follows Viz;…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-07 ADM/A/1772/31
We direct you to cause the BRITANNIA to be furnished with a set of Lanthorns, such as Admiral Russell has proposed to Sir Edward Gregory, without any manner of Gilding.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-18 ADM/A/1772/220
Warrant for the appointment of Jethro Brown to be Boatswain of the SWIFTSURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-19 ADM/A/1772/222
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Challens to be Boatswain of the Yacht MERLIN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-19 ADM/A/1772/226
Warrant for the appointment of John Oliver to be Boatswain of the Yacht CHARLOTTE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-04 ADM/A/1828/59
Appoint William Bryant, Boatswain, of the BASILISK Bomb vessel.