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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-19 ADM/A/1770/339

Requiring General Tickets to be raised from the Books of HM Ships for wages for the Marine Regiments to be paid to the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Richard Onslow or their appointees.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-17 ADM/A/1770/319

[Ensebins] Rooker is to be paid an allowance for the time he served as Marshall of the Mediterranean Squadron as warranted by Henry Killigrew, Commander in Chief of that Squadron.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-17 ADM/A/1770/325

The complement of the RICHMOND now fitting at Sheerness is to be increased to the number required for service in the Channel in time of war and victualled accordingly.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-02-02 ADM/A/1804/21

The Navy Board has written concerning the fitting of the CHARLES Galley at Blackwall and the Admiralty has commented that that will enable the work to be continued at Deptford. Instructions are given that she be cleaned and refitted at Deptford and victualled for three months service in the Channel.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-02-16 ADM/A/1804/216

Vice Admiral Aylmer has been instructed to release a hundred soldiers belonging to Lord Berkley's from ships at the Nore and in the Medway.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-02-16 ADM/A/1804/220

Supernumeraries are to be taken on board the NEPTUNE for service during the present expedition (not referred to) in order to raise her complement to the level of that of the LONDON, together with a corresponding number of warrant officers.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-02-16 ADM/A/1804/226

The Navy Board had been asked to advise when it would be feasible to start building some Fourth and Fifth Rates and where they may be built.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-28 ADM/A/1805/412

Warrant appointing William Lucas to be Master Gunner of the DOVER Prize. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-28 ADM/A/1805/418

Warrant appointing David Orris, late Master Gunner of the DIAMOND, to be Master Gunner of the new Third Rate building at Southampton. Countersigned by James southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-28 ADM/A/1805/420

Warrant appointing Edward Collingwood to be Boatswain of the DOVER Prize. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-08 ADM/A/1770/271

Authorising the payment of money for the services of the Navy to be paid to the Board of Ordnance.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-03-28 ADM/A/1805/386

The Dutch Men of War at Portsmouth are to be cleaned by careening or docking using the Dockyard's Hulks and Ways.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-04-10 ADM/A/1806/100

You are to give directions to the Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House of Deptford Strand to examine Lieutenant Thomas Legg, First Lieutenant of the RUPERT, as to his capacity of being Master of their Majesties' Ships.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-04-13 ADM/A/1806/118

You have informed us that the Westermost new third Rate Ship building at Harwich will be ready to launch by the 1st or 2nd of May next, which we have named the IPSWICH, and established her with the same Ordnance as allowed to the BREDAH. …

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-04-02 ADM/A/1806/12

Henry Tilden, late Carpenter of the ROYAL CHARLES, is to be granted a Pension, having served twenty years.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-30 ADM/A/1805/434

The JULIAN Prize Bomb vessel is to be established with forty-five men and eight guns together with a mortar.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-30 ADM/A/1805/436

The ARCHANGEL Hired ship is to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel by her owners at one of the Merchant docks in the Thames. She is to receive her highest complement of men and victaulled for four months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-19 ADM/A/1805/254

Confirming a Commission granted by Henry Killigrew Esquire, Sir Ralph Delavall and Sir Cloudesley Shovell for Captain […….] Billop to be Captain of the VICTORY and requiring the wages due to him for his time in that ship to be paid.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-19 ADM/A/1805/256

The Board is to negotiate with the Masters of Merchant ships bound for Barbadoes for transporting three hundred troops. An estimate of charges is to be submitted and instructions are to be given to the Commissioners of Victualling to supply provisions for the voyage.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-13 ADM/A/1770/291

Directing that the HANNIBAL and SOCIETY Hospital ships are to hired again on the same terms and with the same crew numbers as those secured last year.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-13 ADM/A/1770/295

The Dover is to be cleaned and refitted at Plymouth for service in the Channel and supplied with three month's Victuals. The wages due to the Officers and Company of the DARTMOUTH are to be paid up to the time she was lost.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-15 ADM/A/1770/297

Instructing the impressment to Captain Matthew Aylmer Commander-in-Chief of the Squadron destined for the Mediterranean of a thousand pounds, some in cash and some in Letters of Credit.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-14 ADM/A/1805/192

Warrant appointing Thomas Thredder to be Master Cook of the JOSEPH Hired ship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-03-14 ADM/A/1805/196

The wages of Captain Richard Cotton and of his son Lieutenant Cotton both of the DIAMOND are to be paid to the persons authorised to receive them, up to the time of their deaths in the West Indies, despite it not being possible to produce their journals and other papers.