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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/135

Requiring the TIGER at Woolwich to be cleaned and fitted for service in the Channel together with four months Victuals and suitable Stores.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-28 ADM/A/1810/280

We direct you to send an account to this Board as near as you can judge by what times the Stores designed for the Straights for refitting the Fleet will be shipped, as well as those that are ordered to be first got ready as the rest, and cause the same to be distibuted in the Ships that are to trans…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-04 ADM/A/1784/131

Returning two Estimates for works at Plymouth, one covering the construction of some Wharfs and another for the installation of navigation buoys at the entrance to the Hamoaze and instructing that the works should be put in hand; and approving the Navy Boards estimate of the number of Men required t…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/125

Ordering the removal of the kitchen from the KITCHEN Yacht and its refitting similar to the other Yachts.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-28 ADM/A/1810/285

We direct you to imprest unto Mr Edward Whittaker, Solicitor for the Affairs of the Admiralty and Navy, the sum of five hundred pounds for his paying Advance Money for buiding a new house for an Admiralty Office. You are also to sign the Articles of agreement made for the said Office.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-28 ADM/A/1810/282

In return to your letter of the 25th inst; concerning the sending of Caulkers, Smiths etc; along with the Hulks and Magazines for refitting the Fleet in the Mediterranean under the command of Admiral Russell, we direct you to cause to be provided and got ready with all dispatch, as well as all such …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-22 ADM/A/1784/152

Requiring a number of Men named by Admiral Rooke as previously belonging to the CORONATION Hired ship and who served in the WINDSOR CASTLE during last year and in the NEPTUNE this year to be paid for their time in the CORONATION at the same rate as Men serving in the ST ANDREW.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-21 ADM/A/1784/141

Instructing the Navy Board to hire six Merchant ships as Fourth Rate Men-of-War.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-20 ADM/A/1784/139

Requiring the LONDON MERCHANT to be supplied with three months Victuals at the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-28 ADM/A/1777/183

A continuation of the List of Rewards to various persons who gave assistance to the VANGUARD when she was lately onshore on the Goodwin Sands.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-28 ADM/A/1777/184

According to what you propose in your letter to this Board of the 19th of this month we direct you to cause an allowance to be made to the persons undermentioned of the several sums of Money at their names expressed, as a reward to them for their extraordinary care, diligence and assistance about th…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-28 ADM/A/1777/186

The Court Martial that lately enquired into the loss of the HARWICH, having acquitted the Commander and other Officers of the Ship from any failure or neglect of duty therein, we do hereby direct you to cause the Stop which was put to the Commander and Officers Pay by our late Order to be removed.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-26 ADM/A/1777/168

Warrant for the appointment of Phineas Shrewsbury to be Master Cook of the NEPTUNE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-26 ADM/A/1777/170

We direct you to cause the third Rates named in the margin to be surveyed forthwith and an account taken of their defects, that what necessary repairs are to be done for fitting them for service at Sea next Summer, sending us an account of causing these repairs to be taken in hand and dispatched as …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/117

Some French Prizes having been taken the NANTWICH previously hired at Plymouth as an Advice Boat is to be discharged.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/201

We have ordered the RUBY to proceed from the Buoy of the Nore with the Right Honourable William Harbord Esq; with his Servant, to {Hilvortsluce} and direct you to cause one months victuals to be sent to the Ship at the Buoy of the Nore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/115

Wanting to know who has put in hand the fitting out of three captured French ships currently at Portsmouth and on whose orders.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/203

We direct you to cause the RUBY on her arrival at Woolwich, where she is ordered, to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for three months or as much as she can conveniently stow.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/113

Authorising the purchase of the SUCCESS Merchant ship used as a Man-of-War and now to be used as a Hulk at Deptford. An Estimate of the cost of fitting her as such is required.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/205

We direct you to sign Bills of Imprest on the Treasurer of the Navy for paying the sum of three hundred pounds to each of the Colonels of the two Marine Regiments, or to their Order, for enabling them to pay subsistence Money to the Soldiers of the said Regiments when on shore.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/207

Warrant for the appointment of James King to be Master Carpenter of the GREYHOUND.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-29 ADM/A/1777/189

We direct you to cause the PEARL, now refitting at Sheerness, to be victualled for four months for her complement of Men, or as much as she can conveniently stow

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-17 ADM/A/1784/107

Warrant appointing Henry Miller, late Master Carpenter of the CONSTANT WARWICK, to be Master Carpenter of the new Fourth Rate being built by Mr Snelgrove. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-29 ADM/A/1777/191

We direct you to cause the TIGER PRIZE, now at Deptford, to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, and victualled for four months or as much as she conveniently stow.