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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-12 ADM/A/1811/103

John Luff, formerly Lieutenant of the hired Ship ARCHANGEL, has informed us that for want of his Journals for this Ship from the 30th September 1692 to 27th January 1693 being delivered into your Office, he cannot receive his Wages.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-12 ADM/A/1811/101

Captain Holmes, Commander of the HENRY Prize at the Nore, where it is under orders to for proceeding to the Sound, has informed us that she only has six weeks provisions .
We direct you to send supplies down to complete her victualling to three months.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-12 ADM/A/1811/115

Notwithstanding any former orders, we direct you to cause the WINCHESTER at Chatham to be victualled for three months for Channel service, for her highest complement of Men, as soon as possible.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-17 ADM/A/1811/164

You have informed us that the new sixth rate Ship building by Mr Barrett at Shoreham, which we have named the FALCON, will be ready to launch on the 28th of this month.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-17 ADM/A/1811/170

Warrant for the appointment of Samuel Vile to be Purser of the CAPTAIN.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-18 ADM/A/1811/184

Vice Admiral Hopson has informed us that the DREADNOUGHT and PORTLAND have been forced to go to short allowance of Provisions, the former beginning on the 22nd June last, and the latter on the 16th July, and so continued till yesterday, the Ships having now arrived in the Downs.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-18 ADM/A/1811/182

Erick Nollo has informed this Board that a considerable quantity of Powder and Shot is privately stowed in a Ship called the NORTH STAR, now lying in Blackwall Dock, which he thinks is designed for France.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-19 ADM/A/1811/188

We direct you to cause the Provisions on the hired Ship SAMUEL HENRY, now at the Buoy of the Nore, to be completed to two months with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-24 ADM/A/1811/244

We direct you to cause to be provided and got ready with all possible dispatch, to be sent with the first Convoy going to the Straights, a sufficient supply of Winter and Slop clothes for the seamen in the Fleet under the command of Admiral Russell.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-24 ADM/A/1811/238

Warrant for the appointment of Joshua Bell to be Purser of the PORTLAND

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-25 ADM/A/1811/254

We direct you to cause the Provisions on board the IPSWICH and LANCASTER, the former at the Nore, and the latter in the Downs, to be completed for six months for a voyage to the Mediterranean, and that they also be supplied with such Stores as shall be necessary for this voyage.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-26 ADM/A/1811/266

We direct you to cause the LION at the Buoy of the Nore to be fitted and put into the best condition for Sea as soon as possible in order to attend the King on his passage over to England. In case she has not six weeks Provisions on board you are to order her to be victualled for that time.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-26 ADM/A/1811/264

Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following salaries to be established on the Secretaries, Clerks and other Officers belonging to this Office (as per detailed List).…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-26 ADM/A/1811/262

A Petition has been presented to this Board in the name of Thomas Mason, setting forth that he was a Marine soldier on board the SUFFOLK, in which Ship he lost his left hand, and was wounded in three of the fingers of the right.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/207

We direct you to cause the Fireships ST. PAUL, MACHINE, JOSEPH and CHARLES at Deptford to be laid up and paid off.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/201

We direct you to cause the NORWICH at Plymouth to be furnished with six months Provisions of proper Species for a voyage to Virginia, and such a supply of Stores as shall be necessary for her.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/211

We direct you to cause one of your Board, together with a set of Clerks, to be sent down to the Buoy of the Nore and remain there for paying the Men turned over from their Majesties' Ships according to our late Order.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-21 ADM/A/1811/209

A petition has been presented to this Board in the name of the Bailiffs, Wardens and Assistants of the Company of Weavers, London, concerning a bequest by Alexander Hosea, Citizen and Weaver of London, for the use of the poor of the Company.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-24 ADM/A/1811/232

Warrant for the appointment of Michael Guppey to be Purser of the MONTAGUE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-27 ADM/A/1811/280

The KENT and BLAZE Fireships in the Downs, and the WINCHELSEA at Portsmouth, are proceeding to the Canaries. .We direct you to cause the Provisions on board the Ships to be completed where they now are to four months with all possible dispatch, and the Ships fitted for this voyage.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-27 ADM/A/1811/278

We direct you to cause the Fireship TERRIBLE at Sheerness to be fitted for a voyage to the West Indies with eight months Provisions of proper species for this voyage with all possible dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-28 ADM/A/1811/294

Sir Cloudesley Shovell informed by letter on the 26th inst that the Fireships in the Downs are in need of Stores, and that he has written to your Board to be supplied.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-28 ADM/A/1811/292

The Bomb and Machine vessels named in the margin are intended to be laid up and paid off. We direct you report to this Board your opinion as to which of their Majesties' Yards they should be ordered to for this purpose.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-28 ADM/A/1811/306

Whichever of the Advice boats MERCURY and POST BOY in the Downs arrives first in Plymouth after being ordered there is to be forthwith cleaned.