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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-10 ADM/A/1814/92
Letter concerning the Order in Council of 22nd February 1694 regarding an increase of Pay to the Commanders and other Officers of of their Majesties' Ships, and the General Printed Instructions annexed to each Commanders' Commission.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-06 ADM/A/1814/51
We understand from your letter of the 5th inst; that notwithstanding our late Orders for hiring or buying five Machine vessels, Sir Martin Bockman expects only four, having no more large Machines, and that the SEAHORSE and the GREYHOUND DOGGER, lately employed in the same service, are agreed to go a…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-06 ADM/A/1814/47
Warrant for the appointment of George Nicholls to be Purser of the ROYAL WILLIAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-06 ADM/A/1814/45
We direct you to cause the MERMAID on her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for three months. You are also to cause the present number of Men on the Ship to be increased to the highest number established on her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-06 ADM/A/1814/43
We direct you to cause the Bomb vessel PHEONIX at Chatham to be fitted for Channel service instead of the ENDEAVOUR which is unserviceable, according as you were directed to fill the the other Bomb vessels in our letter of November 30th.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-07 ADM/A/1814/58
We direct you to set up and build as soon as may be, either in their Majesties' Yards or in Merchants Yards, two fourth Rate Ships of 50 Guns each, of the same dimensions of those last ordered to be built in Mr Castle's Yard at Deptford, sending us an Estimate of the Charges.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-07 ADM/A/1814/56
It appears by a Certificate from Lord Berkeley, Colonel of the Second Marine Regiment, that Humphrey Stokes, Sergeant, and Henry Kitt, Sentinel, belonging to his Company now at Greenwich, were employed on shore from the 1st April 1694 to the 24th October following in raising Recruits for the Compan…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-10 ADM/A/1814/104
We direct you to imprest to Mr Edward Burt, one of the Clerks belonging to our Secretary, the sum of three hundred pounds to enable him to defray the contingencies of this Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-11 ADM/A/1814/121
As requested by your letter to our Secretary yesterday we are sending a enclosed a Warrant for impresting Shipwrights and Caulkers for the Deptford yard, and inform you that the Persons employed in pressing are to take notice that this should not be done as heretofore but in the same manner as Sea…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-11 ADM/A/1814/113
The Marquess of Carmarthen has sent a List of the names of some Men belonging to the ROYAL WILLIAM who had several sums of money stopped from them at the late payment of her; also of others that will be in similar circumstances.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-11 ADM/A/1814/129
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Lawford to be Purser of the DUCHESS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-26 ADM/A/1836/254
You are directed to have the KATHERINE yacht, cleaned and refitted at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/280
Your letter of 27 November, sent us a copy of a letter from several Pursers of the fleet, about the want of necessary money. You are directed to send a copy of the letter to the Treasurer of the Navy, in order that he may solicit money from the Lords of the Treasury
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/268
You are directed to let us know what provisions Rear Admiral Nevill sailed with to Cadiz and what quantity went with him in victualling ships for a supply. His Majesty has referred the petition of James Ardescrife to us, wherin he prays to use his invention on one of His Majesty's ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/264
You are directed to have the DOVER prize now at Hoylake, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks or 2 months with all dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/262
Your letter of 26 November enclosed an extract of one from the Commissioners of the Victualling, wherein they state that without a speedy supply of money, they will not be able to provide victuals for His Majesty's ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-30 ADM/A/1836/328
William Smith, late Purser of the VANGUARD, is to be appointed Purser of the new 2nd Rate building at Portsmouth as soon as she is ready to receive him. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-01 ADM/A/1837/3
Having ordered the BREDAH to Portsmouth, and the CHESTER to Plymouth, we direct you upon their arrival at those places to cause them to be cleaned and refitted there for a voyage to the West Indies, and furnished with eight months Provisions each of proper species for such a voyage for their middl…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-01 ADM/A/1837/E
Several Ships are ordered to the Downs and will need Provisions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-02 ADM/A/1837/8
We direct you to cause the ASSISTANCE at Spithead to be fitted there for a voyage to Virginia and her victualling completed to six months for her middle complement of Men, to which you are to cause her present complement to be reduced.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-03 ADM/A/1837/22
The Board having resolved that all HM Ships which are bound on Foreign Convoys (excepting those designed for Virginia and the Canaries) shall be paid to Michaelmas 95, before they proceed on their voyages, which will be the last of this month, and the said Convoys being ordered to the Downs to rende…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-02 ADM/A/1837/16
We direct you to take care that the Lords of the Treasury be solicited for Money to pay the Pursers of HM ships bound on Foreign voyages their necessary Money at the time of their indenting to avoid delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-03 ADM/A/1837/28
The Victualling Commissioners have proposed to send the Provisions which the West India Men of War cannot take in by the Merchant Ships bound to those Ports.
We direct you to give the necessary Orders for sending the said Provisions in Merchant Ships accordingly for supply of the Men of War.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-03 ADM/A/1837/24
We direct you to cause the WARSPITE upon her arrival at Chatham to be cleaned and refitted there for the next Summer's Service in the Channel, and victualled in the same manner as the other Ships of the Main Fleet are ordered to be victualled.