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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-27 ADM/A/1783/146

John Capell, Master Gunner of the QUAKER ketch, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the PRINCE OF ORANGE hired ship during her time in their Majesties' service. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-27 ADM/A/1783/144

We have thought fit to confirm a warrant given by Edward Russell, Admiral of their Majesties' fleet, dated 12 February 1689/90, to John Grubb to be Master Gunner of the FUBBS, yacht.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-30 ADM/A/1783/176

You are directed to have the ADVENTURE supplied with one month's victuals which are to be sent down to her at the Buoy of the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-30 ADM/A/1783/174

You are directed to have the HARP, ketch, cleaned and refitted at Sheerness, for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months. She is also to be girdled for the better carrying of sail.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-30 ADM/A/1783/172

You are directed to have the SWEEPSTAKES cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for service in the Channel and victualled for 4 months with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-21 ADM/A/1783/118

Your letter of yesterday gave us an account of the defects of the SUCCESS hired ship. You are directed to discharge the ship from their Majesties service, and all her company and officers, except the Boatswain, Carpenter and Cook, turned over to the new AFRICA hired ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-20 ADM/A/1783/114

The French vessel lately taken on the Goodwin Sands and named the GOODWIN prize, is to be sailed to Portsmouth to be cleaned and fitted.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-20 ADM/A/1783/109

John Rodman is to be appointed Boatswain of the ST. MARTIN prize. You are to enter him accordingly together with an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 20 April 1692.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-20 ADM/A/1783/102

The great ships are ordered to sail towards the Downs and you are directed to have 30 able pilots sent to ships at the Buoy of the Nore for their service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-20 ADM/A/1783/100

You are directed to have the FUBBS yacht at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel without delay. She has been ordered to attend Admiral Russell in the fleet this summer.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-26 ADM/A/1783/138

You are directed to have a fitting vessel hired at Portsmouth or thereabouts, to be employed by Captain Hoskins, Commander of the MONCK, to procure seamen for his ship, taking care that she is discharged when that service is over.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-25 ADM/A/1783/134

You are directed to stop the wages of Captain John Larch, Commander of the ANN hired ship in the West Indies, and also to the hire and freight of the ship, until he satisfies her company for their share of the prize goods taken from the French.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-25 ADM/A/1783/126

You are directed to have the RUPERT manned to her highest complement of men.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-01 ADM/A/1777/3

We direct you to cause the Ketch ALDBOROUGH at Woolwich to be fitted for a voyage to New York and victualled for eight months for her middle complement of Men, with provision of proper specie for such a voyage.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-20 ADM/A/1783/96

The commanders of the EAGLET ketch and the SWEEPSTAKES, having orders to receive the Scotch seamen at Leith, you are directed to have the allowance made to them as the commanders shall give receipts for by our orders of 24 February last, and to have provisions put on board the SHEERNESS and LONDON M…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-19 ADM/A/1783/88

Captain William Bokenham, Commander of the GRAFTON, has applied to this Board for some reward when Lieutenant of the DRAGON, in carrying the LEOPARD hulk to Gibraltar and taking care of and accounting for the stores and victuals which were transported.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-16 ADM/A/1860/159

The HENRIETTA Yatch at Deptford is to be cleaned and readied for the sea as soon as possible.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-05-04 ADM/A/1774/386

Warrant appointing Richard Baldwin to be Cook of the EAGLET Ketch in place of the former who has been discharged. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-21 ADM/A/1777/139

We direct you to cause the Wages due to the Soldiers of the Marine Regiments for their service on board the HARWICH to be stopped, and not paid to them or their Attorneys until further Orders.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-21 ADM/A/1777/141

We direct you to cause the GREYHOUND and the FUBBS Yacht to cleaned and refitted at Deptford for service in the Channel, and that the GREYHOUND be victualled for three months or as much as she can conveniently stow.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-21 ADM/A/1777/143

A request has been made by Thomas Gosling, Boatswain of the NORWICH, and David Browne, Boatswain of the SUFFOLK, that they may exchange places during NORWICH's present voyage to the West Indies, which we think fit to grant.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-04 ADM/A/1861/25

We direct you to cause the CHATHAM at Plymouth to be paid off and laid up there, notwithstanding any former orders to the contrary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-20 ADM/A/1777/129

Captain Meese, late Commander of the EXETER, has informed this Board that at the late blowing up of this Ship he lost all his Books and Papers, whereby he is unable to give in his Journals and other Papers directed by the Lord Admiral's Instructions.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-20 ADM/A/1777/133

We direct you to cause the Fireship HALF MOON upon her arrival at Deptford to be paid off and laid up.