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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/122

Warrant for the appointment of William Hagie to be Master
Gunner of the TIGER.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/120

Your letter of the 12th inst; informed us that the BRISTOL is intended to enter Mr Castle's Dock the next Spring in place of the WOOLWICH, and that she is likely to want a great repair.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/130

Warrant for the appointment of William Mills to be Boatswain of the new third Rate Ship building in the Deptford Yard..

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-03 ADM/A/1826/60

Countermanding the order to provide two water ships to accompany the Channel Fleet; the Flag Officers and Captains opining they will not be needed.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-09 ADM/A/1796/71

We direct you forthwith to let us know what supply of Stores there is in the Portsmouth Yard for furnishing the Fleet after a Battle.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/112

Warrant for the appointment of John Barrey to be Master Carpenter of the Fireship HAWK.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/110

Warrant for the appointment of John Jenkins to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate Ship building in the Woolwich Yard.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-03 ADM/A/1826/62

Detailed instructions for the provisioning of those ships that are to join the Main[e] Fleet.

The Victualling Commissioners are to hire or buy two vessels to attend the Fleet as water carriers.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-06 ADM/A/1826/68

Warrant appointing Richard Everall, to be Master Gunner of the LARK; his predecessor having resigned.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/41

Mr Timewell, the Navy Commissioner at Portsmouth, has informed us that the JAMES GALLY has been obliged to stay in that Port for want of a dispatch from the Victuallers' Instruments, and other of their Majesties' Ships coming in to refit since he entered his employment have been delayed as…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/43

Having not yet received any answer from you to our late letter, in which we directed you to let us know upon what terms you could dispose of the Tallys supplied to you by the Lords of the Treasury for payment of the Yards, we direct you to let us have an account thereof as soon as possibly may be.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/148

Warrant for the appointment of Charles Bowles to be Purser of the CAMBRIDGE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/146

Warrant for the appointment of Francis Lane to be Purser of the OSSORY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-05 ADM/A/1796/39

The King has been pleased upon a representation to him that the Port of Falmouth will be convenient for the receiving and refitting their Majesties' Ships, to signify his Command to this Board that a survey should be taken of the said Port.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-05 ADM/A/1796/40

Continuation of the Report requested on the use of the Port of Falmouth for their Majesties' Service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/144

Warrant for the appointment of William Floyd to be Master Carpenter of the Fireship EXTRAVAGANT.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/142

His Majesty has directed us to give Orders for providing a Medal and Chain to the value of fifty pounds to be given to Captain Charles Stocker, Commander of the Privateer CLOUDISLY GALLY, as a reward for his courageous fight and taking a French Privateer called the MERCURY OF DUNKIRK, John Johnson C…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/152

Warrant for the appointment of George Roberts to be Purser of the DOLPHIN.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-20 ADM/A/1780/150

We direct you to cause the Officers and Company belonging to the VANGUARD (except the Commission and Warrant Officers) to be forthwith turned over into the DUKE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/53

A proposal having been made for the building of a Gun Wharf at Blockhouse Point at Portsmouth, we direct you to give your Opinion whether this may done without prejudice to the Harbour,

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/137

In your report to this Board of the 5th inst; upon the Petition of the Clerk of the Survey at the Woolwich Yard you informed us that his Salary is fifty pounds per annum, whereas the Salary of the same Officer at Chatham is one hundred, and at Deptford and Portsmouth sixty pounds per annum.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/49

We direct you to consider what Sums of Money, and at what times, and in what proportions will be requisite to be furnished for timely carrying on the Works of the new third Rate Ship which you were lately directed to contract for, to be built at Southampton, without hindering the dispatch of the Wor…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-06 ADM/A/1796/47

We direct you to cause Captain Lawrence Wright, who served as Commander in Chief of their Majesties' Ships in the West Indies, to be paid for that service as Captain of the MARY to the time he hoisted the Flag in pursuance of the Orders he received for that purpose, and after the rate of twenty…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-06-24 ADM/A/1843/190

Requring that a Commissioner of Victualling be sent to Tor Bay to ensure that ships of the main fleet receive fresh provisions and that short allowance and Bounty money also be sent there.