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Austen, Robert
Cary, Anthony
Cary, John
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-17
ADM/A/1792/164
Detailed schedule of the extra Colours and Stores though appropriate for Flag Officers of the Red and Blue Squadrons.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-17
ADM/A/1792/168
Requiring a substitue to be found for Mr Tymewell, Muster Master of the Fleet, as he is returing to the Navy Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-15
ADM/A/1792/139
Authorising the payment of a Pension to Mary Partridge, wife of Captain Robert Partridge, late Commander of the GRIFFIN Fireship. Terms are given.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-16
ADM/A/1792/147
Giving instructions to purchase of the SOESDYKE Yacht from her owners.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-16
ADM/A/1792/151
Informing that the Earl of Danby has submitted proposals for building a fast twenty oared Barge and requiring an opinion.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-14
ADM/A/1792/123
Requiring Bills to be signed for the Flag Pay of Sir John Ashby and George Rooke Esq.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-19
ADM/A/1835/205
Your letter of 9 October to our Secretary sent a copy of the survey of the RESOLUTION and you have proposed sending the ship to Chatham, but the ship requiring a greater repair you think it best to pay her off and we have therefore ordered her officers and company to be sent to Portsmouth, some by t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-14
ADM/A/1792/125
Ordering fifty willing Men of the ST ANDREW to be turned over into the NEPTUNE; and Colonel Thomas Hopson to be paid for his service in the St.MICHAEL.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-17
ADM/A/1835/197
You are directed to give orders that the SUN prize be fitted with all possible dispatch at Plymouth, notwithstanding that she has been sold by prize officers to private persons.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-14
ADM/A/1792/127
Requiring two months Provisions to be sent urgently to the WARRINGTON Hired ship at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-15
ADM/A/1792/131
Requiring the entry of desertion of John Pen, Boatswain of the ST ALBANS Prize, to be removed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-15
ADM/A/1792/135
Instructing that the Brother of Captain John Tancred, former Commander of the TARTAR Prize, be paid a sum of money for the Captain's support as a prisoner in France. The money is to be deducted from his wages as a Lieutenant in the ALBEMARLE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-20
ADM/A/1835/213
The BURLINGTON, MARY galley, LYME and EXPERIMENT, being ordered to cruise on the coast of France, under the command of of Captain William Kerr who has been directed to send them by turns to Portsmouth to clean and victual.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-17
ADM/A/1831/134
The SWEEPSTAKES, MERMAID and WINCHELSEA are appointed to Convoy the Colliers to and from Newcastle.We direct you to give Orders that upon the arrival of the Ships at the Buoy of the Nore, the Provisions aboard them be immediately completed to ten weeks each, and that they be supplied from time to ti…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-16
ADM/A/1831/130
A Commission was granted by Captain Robert Wilmot, C- in- C of HM Ships in the West Indies, dated the 4th September 1695, for Mr Jeremiah Fownds to be second Lieutenant of the WINCHESTER.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-10
ADM/A/1792/100
Captain William Row, late Commander of the PHEONIX Bomb vessel, is applying for payment for three supernumeries ordered to be put aboard his ship by the Duke of Leinster to prepare grenade shells for the Bomb vessels in the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-10
ADM/A/1792/98
Directing that Colonel Churchill should be paid as Captain of the ST ANDREW.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-16
ADM/A/1835/183
Your letter of 13 October sending a report of the officers at Portsmouth about the CUMBERLAND whereby it is proposed that her tenderness may be cured without girdling, the chief reason being the ill stowage of the ship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-16
ADM/A/1835/181
Robert Warren, Boatswain of the COMET bomb vessel, has been appointed Boatswain of the ROEBUCK in the room of the former deceased. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 16 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-12
ADM/A/1792/113
Urgently requiring extra Clerks to be sent to Portsmouth to assist in paying ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-11
ADM/A/1792/111
Warrant appointing Mithias Berry to be Master Gunner of the VULTURE Fireship in place of George Wingreen who has been moved to the new Fourth Rate building in Sheerness. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-17
ADM/A/1831/136
We direct you to cause the CENTURION and ESSEX Prize upon their arrival at Sheerness to be forthwith cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and each of them victualled for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-08
ADM/A/1792/82
Warrant appointing Phillip Webber to be Boatswain and Gunner of the DISCOVERY Brigantine. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-08
ADM/A/1792/80
Stipulating the number of vessels used for recruiting purposes to be allocated to each class of ship, providing that on completion of their task they be discharged. The number of Servants and Retinue that each Commander can take with him when changing ship is also stipulated.
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