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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-31
ADM/A/1807/336
The company of the KENT to be transferred to the LANCASTER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-01
ADM/A/1808/7
Captain Emes, Commander of the SORLINGS at Spithead, has advised us that she is in want of the provisions ordered for the voyage to New England. You are directed to have the ship furnished with these.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-01
ADM/A/1808/4
Robert Shales is to be appointed Clerk of the Cheque at Portsmouth, in place of David Graham dismissed from employment. You are directed to enter him accordingly with such salary allowances, privileges and immunities belonging, until further order. His warrant is to be dated 1 June 1694.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-01
ADM/A/1808/19
John Foster is appointed Master Cook for the new fourth rate building by Henry Johnson at Blackwall. You are directed to enter him accordingly, as soon as the ship is ready to receive him, with such allowances of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-01
ADM/A/1808/15
We have received advice from Mr Povey, Secretary tio the Committee for Trade and Plantations, that 340 men intended to be sent to the New World, cannot proceed to the convoy now going to New England.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-18
ADM/A/1815/181
You are directed to have the GERMOON prize to be cleaned and refitted at Plymouth for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-18
ADM/A/1815/179
You are directed to have the GOODWIN prize at Plymouth to be cleaned, refitted and furnished with such provisions as she shall be in want of.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-19
ADM/A/1815/194
You are directed to have the MONTAGUE, now at Portsmouth, to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-21
ADM/A/1815/204
Your letter of 18 January sent several papers for our information touching some contrivances against the officers of His Majesty's yards at Deptford and Chatham, which we agree may be of a dangerous consequence to His Majesty's service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-19
ADM/A/1815/200
Captain Edward Littlejohn is appointed to command the MONTAGUE at Portsmouth, and is given leave to take with him the 32 men from the ASSISTANCE mentioned in the enclosed list.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-21
ADM/A/1815/214
The Commanders of the PORTSMOUTH and STAR bomb vessels, advised this Board of damage by ice in the river.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-21
ADM/A/1815/208
The Rt. Hon.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-21
ADM/A/1815/206
You are directed to have the officers belonging to the KENT turned over to the CHICHESTER at Chatham as soon as she is launched.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-25
ADM/A/1815/264
We received your letter of 24 January together with a copy of one to you from the Commissioners of the Victualling, about the difficulty of procuring provisions for next summer for want of money.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-25
ADM/A/1815/262
You are directed to pay James Southerne, late Secretary to this Board, his salary to Michaelmas last, notwithstanding that he left his employment before the expiry of that quarter.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-25
ADM/A/1815/270
Henry Morgan, Boatswain of His Majesty's yard at Chatham, is to be appointed Master Attendant at Sheerness in place of Captain Potter, superannuated. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such salary allowances, privileges and immunities belonging thereto until further order.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-28
ADM/A/1815/284
Mr George Gother was appointed on 11 June 1692 as a Volunteer on board the ROYAL KATHERINE under the command of Captain James Gother by the Rt. Hon. Edward Russell, Admiral of the Fleet. You are directed to make the usual allowance to Mr Gother for the time he served.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-28
ADM/A/1815/282
You are directed to give orders for hiring a tender for the service of the LYON, in order for the better manning of her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-26
ADM/A/1815/276
Mathew Combes, late Boatswain of the HAWKE fireship is to be appointed Boatswain of the CENTURION in place of the former, suspended by sentence of a Court Martial. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-29
ADM/A/1815/294
Sydrick Adams, Master Gunner of the MONTAGUE, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the DEFIANCE in place of the former removed to the MONTAGUE. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-29
ADM/A/1815/292
Your letter of 26 January advised that the Volunteers entered aboard His Majesty's ships at Plymouth should be paid the bounty money pursuant to His Majesty's late proclamation.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-29
ADM/A/1815/290
Captain Gallway, Commander of the MARTIN, ketch at Portsmouth, asks in his letter of 25 January to be allowed a bottom of tallow, being her first voyage, to try her sailing. You are directed to give orders for the ketch to be supplied accordingly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-28
ADM/A/1815/286
You are directed to send orders to the Commissioners at Portsmouth to hire a tender for the MONCK.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-22
ADM/A/1815/233
John Ainsley is to be appointed Master Cook of the QUEENSBROUGH. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 22 January 1695.
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