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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/78

We direct you to cause the Yacht HENRIETTA to be cleaned and refitted at Deptford for Channel service,

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/74

Warrant for the appointment of Jasper Devert to be Purser of the Mary Gally.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/72

Notwithstanding our Orders of the 24th of last month for refitting the Sheerness at Sheerness we direct you to cause the Ship to be cleaned and refitted at Plymouth for Channel service in case she has not left there before the receipt of our late Orders, and that she be furnished with two months v…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-09 ADM/A/1791/91

Your letter of the 4th inst; informed us that the Old Single Dock at the Chatham Yard has been very Crasy for a long time, and the Apron blown up in the late stormy weather.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-09 ADM/A/1791/101

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Worrall to be Purser of the new fourth Rate Ship building at Southampton.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/86

A Petition of Francis Moss to receive a Pension by reason of his age and infirmity.

This Petition is referred to the Navy Board for consideration and Report…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-15 ADM/A/1842/210

Warrant for the appointment of Hugh Williams to be Boatswain of the Brigantine SHARK.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-09 ADM/A/1842/129

We direct you to cause the Wages due to Captain Lyell for the time he commanded the MILFORD to be paid , notwithstanding the loss of his Journals, Books and Papers of accounts, he having informed us that they were all lost when the MILFORD was taken by the Enemy.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-19 ADM/A/1841/224

Ordering the RESTORATION, PENDENNIS, PHOENIX and GRIFFIN Fireship to be supplied immediately with [a] month's Provisions to allow them to go on service of great consequence.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-08-18 ADM/A/1845/166

Warrant appointing James Poundy, late Boatswain of the DUNWICH, to be Boatswain of the new Fifth Rate building at Deptford when ready to receive her Officers. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-08-20 ADM/A/1845/171

Warrant appointing William Jewell to be Master Carpenter of the QUEENBOROUGH in place of the former who has been moved to the new Fifth Rate at Portsmouth. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/11

We direct you to cause the SEVERN upon her arrival at Portsmouth to be forthwith cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/1

In pursuance of his Majesty's pleasure signified on the 23rd April last we direct you to cause the Stop put on the Marquess of Carmarthen's Pay for bearing Supernumerarys when he commanded the RESOLUTION to be taken off, and that his Wages be paid him.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-06-17 ADM/A/1843/123

Directing that the French prize taken by the MEDWAY should be purchased for use as a Man-of-War and asking for advice as to how she should be manned and armed.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-03 ADM/A/1826/40

Warrant appointing James Burton, to be Cook of the GRAFTON.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-02 ADM/A/1826/34

RUBY PRIZE, at Plymouth, to be provisioned, if necessary for convoy to Bilbao.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-02 ADM/A/1826/32

Warrant authorising increases in Salaries and Day Wages to be paid to Yard Officers and Workmen, showing the new rates applicable to each category of employee.
Restrictions in the payment of Extra Allowances also set out.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-02 ADM/A/1826/36

When the SAMUEL & HENRY, Hired Ship, arrives in Longreach, in the Thames, all her Officers and Company, excepting Commissioned and Warrant Officers, are to be turned over to the WOOLWICH, and their wages paid.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-10-01 ADM/A/1824/353

Could the SUNDERLAND and the CHATHAM be more conveniently repaired in the River or at Chatham. Cause to be payed to Captain Soames the wages due to him as commander of the VULCAN Fireship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-08 ADM/A/1780/43

We direct you to cause the St. ALBAN's PRIZE, now at Harwich, to have the damage she lately received after being onshore to be so far made good at Harwich as to enable her to come from there to Sheerness.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-06-16 ADM/A/1843/121

Captain Thomas Jennings had been appointed Captain of the QUEEN for going to the Mediterranean with Captain Steward as her Second Captain. An instruction is given for Jennings to be paid thirty shillings a day as Captain until Steward was removed and Jennings appointed as Second Captain.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-07 ADM/A/1780/33

We direct you to cause their Majesties' Ships of the first, second and third Rates, ordered to be fitted for Sea for this next Summer service, to be furnished with four months dry provisions, or as much as they can conveniently stow, and three months Beer only, and that the rest of their Beer a…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-06-15 ADM/A/1843/111

Warrant appointing Joseph Simmons, late Carpenter of the Mercury Advice Boat, to be Master carpenter of the JOSEPH Fireship, in place of the former removed for a misdemeanour.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-01 ADM/A/1780/9

In your letter to this Board of the 30th of last month you informed us that you have agreed with Mr Snelgrove, a Shipwright in this River, for building at his Yard near Deptford one of the fourth Rate Ships appointed by Act of Parliament to be built for his Majesty, and to launch her in thirteen mon…