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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-28 ADM/A/1788/266
We direct you to consider what numbers of Men will be fitting to be Established for the new ships of 60 guns now ordered by the Act of Parliament for HM Service
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-25 ADM/A/1788/242
We direct you to transfer the 30 Seamen late of HMS ASSURANCE to be moved to HMS FORESIGHT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-26 ADM/A/1788/246
We direct you to send 14 days victuals to HMS BREDA at the buoy of the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-16 ADM/A/1810/166
Warrant for the appointment of Jeremiah Founds to be Master Carpenter of the WINCHESTER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-17 ADM/A/1810/168
Warrant for the appointment of John Burdon to be Master Carpenter of the DUCHESS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-16 ADM/A/1810/162
We direct you to sign a bill on the Navy Treasurer for paying Thomas Neal, Master of the Mint, a sum of thirty pounds to provide a Medal and Chain for John Gresby of Guernsey, Mariner, as a reward for taking and destroying some French Privateers, and rescuing a Vessel laden with Stone for the buildi…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-13 ADM/A/1810/140
Having received information from the Captain of the SUFFOLK Hagboat that her Victuals have not come down, and it being of great importance that that she is immediately dispatched to sail with the Victuals bound for the Straights, we direct you to take all possible care that she is immediately provid…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-13 ADM/A/1810/142
We have ordered the hired Ship ENGLAND Frigate in Kingroad near Bristol to convoy several ships from there into the Sea and then to return to Bristol again. We direct you upo her arrival there to cause her to be cleaned and refitted into a condition for the Sea at the charge of her Owners.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-15 ADM/A/1810/148
We direct you to sign a Bill on the Navy Treasurer for the Pay due to Sir Francis Wheeler, Admiral and Commander in Chief of their Majesties' Ships in the Mediterranean, from the first of November 1693, the date of his Commission for that employment, to the time the SUSSEX was lost in the Strai…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-16 ADM/A/1810/158
We send you enclosed the Copy of a Petition of Captain Richard Dickenson setting forth his past services and praying to be superannuated.
We direct you to examine this and give this Board the best account you can, how long he has served in the Navy, and in what capacity.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-15 ADM/A/1810/154
We direct you to immediately give Orders to the Victualling Commissioners to cause a Water Ship with one hundred tons of water to be forthwith sent to the Squadron under the command of Vice Admiral Hopson along with the GREENWICH in the Downs which is bound to him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-10 ADM/A/1810/116
We direct you to give Orders that such Vessels as shall be sent with Provisions for the supply of their Majesties' Ships in the Leeward Islands are to go to Antigua first, and if the Men of War are not there, then they are to proceed to them according to such directions as they shall receive fr…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-10 ADM/A/1810/118
You proposed to us by your letter of the 4th inst; that in consideration of the business at the Woolwich Yard being so much increased there should be Master Boatmaker, Mastmaker, Master House Carpenter, Master Joiner and Master Sailmaker particularly appointed there, as the Deptford Yard Officers (w…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-29 ADM/A/1783/164
You are directed to have the men lately turned over to the new AFRICA, hired ship, from the SUCCESS, except for the Warrant Officers, to be sent down to the VANGUARD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-27 ADM/A/1783/152
You are directed to consider the number of Muster Masters to be appointed and what pay is fitting to be allowed them. Also, what alterations should be made to the present instructions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-10 ADM/A/1810/101
We direct you forthwith to imprest to Mr Edward Burt, one of the Clerks belonging to our Secretary, the sum of three hundred pounds for defraying the Contingencies of this Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-09 ADM/A/1810/97
We direct you to cause the Provisions ordered for the Soldiers going to New York to be completed at Portsmouth as they shall spend thereon, so that they may sail with the full proportion ordered them.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-30 ADM/A/1783/178
In your letter of 8 April, you advised us that you had contracted with several merchant shipwrights in the River, for building 40 shallops and for their masts, sails, oars and grapnels to be supplied at Deptford.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-09 ADM/A/1810/93
Having ordered the C-in-C at the Buoy of the Nore to turn over the DEFIANCE's Men into the HAMPTON COURT and put Men aboard her to carry her up to Longreach, and assist in the getting out her Guns,Stores and Provisions, and then return to their proper Ships again, we direct you so soon as her G…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-29 ADM/A/1783/168
The Commander of the SAMUEL and HENRY, hired ship, informs us in his letter of 28 April from the Downs, that on his return from Ostend he met with bad weather and had to leave the sheet anchor and cable and the main sail is split.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-10 ADM/A/1810/105
A Warrant for the payment of a Pension to Lieutenant Sumpter, late first Lieutenant of the GREENWICH, in consideration of his of his long service and his great age and infirmities, to commence from the time of his discharge from the GREENWICH and to continue during his life.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-29 ADM/A/1783/166
The ships DUNKIRK, RUBY, ADVICE, CHESTER, DRAGON, LOYAL MERCHANT, FALCON, EXPERIMENT, MERMAID, QUAKER and HAWK, formerly ordered to be fitted for service in the West Indies, have since been thought fitting for Channel service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-10 ADM/A/1810/114
Lord Lucas has informed some of this Board that he had a number of Able Seamen some days in the Tower, and had given notice thereof to you, and that notwithstanding you had taken no care of sending for them, so that he was forced to let them go this morning after having kept them several days at his…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-04-29 ADM/A/1783/170
Further to our orders to you of 25 April, concerning the entering of men who are volunteers into pay, you are directed to enter all such seamen from the time they respectively listed themselves, upon certificates and upon oath of the officers who listed them.