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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-09
ADM/A/1812/98
Certain Officers are to be suspended. Four Captains are named as commanding various vessels including the TRUE LOVE and STAR Bomb vessels and the GREEN HOLLY and VIOLET Tenders to Machine vessels. Captains Fisher and Andrews are to be fined one week's wages.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-09
ADM/A/1812/118
Captain Thomas Liell Commander of the PRUDENCE Hired ship has been dismissed for allowing his Officers to take Order money from the Masters of Merchant ships he had been escorting. He is to forfeit all his wages which are to be given to the Chatham Chest.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-09
ADM/A/1812/116
The suspensions of Alexander Orrock Master of the GRAFTON and of John Pace Master of the ENDEAVOUR both Machine vessels are to be lifted; but they are to be fined one week's wages each, with the proceeds being put towards the Chatham Chest.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-11-03
ADM/A/1836/25
You are directed to have the boat's crew which attended Colonel Richards last summer, during the time he was employed in fitting the bomb vessels, to be borne on victuals and wages on board the several bomb vessels to which they were distributed by the Clerk of the Cheque at Woolwich.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-07
ADM/A/1817/92
Pay Captain Lionel Ripley his wages as Commander the HUMBER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-11
ADM/A/1817/130
Captain James Moody, Commander, the YARMOUTH at Harwich, Direct that his ship be put in condition for the sea.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-11
ADM/A/1817/140
Will the GLOUCESTER be safe in King Road without her Guns.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-15
ADM/A/1817/184
Enter men for service on the new 5th rate the LYME, building at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-06-15
ADM/A/1808/144
John Adams is to be appointed Purser of the PEARL, in place of the former who is to be dismissed. You are directed to enter him accordingly together woth such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 15 June 1694.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-02-13
ADM/A/1816/140
Enquiring whether it might be acceptable to keep back a quarter of crews' beer allowance and substitute payment in lieu.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-28
ADM/A/1814/403
Warrant for the appointment of John Cooper to be Boatswain of the Ketch MARTIN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-01
ADM/A/1814/5
The NORWICH, PRINCE OF ORANGE, FRIENDLY SOCIETY, and OWNERS LOVE FIRST being designed Convoys to Virginia, and the CROWN and ROCHESTER to Portugal, the former of which are ordered to be victualled for six months and the other for four, and the NORWICH and PRINCE OF ORANGE being daily expected in th…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-11
ADM/A/1814/123
You have informed us that the new 6th Rate building at Sheerness, which we have named QUEENBOROUGH, will be ready to launch the next Spring. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-14
ADM/A/1837/160
The Victualling Commissioners have given us an account today that the Enemy have taken one of the Victualling Ships, the MARY, on passage to the Straights and taken her to Brest.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-01-19
ADM/A/1838/186
Authorising the payment of per Diem monies to Captain William Bokenham for a period of service in the QUEEN during 1695/6 and to Sir George Rooke as Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean from April 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-02
ADM/A/1822/15
You are directed to have 2 months provisions immediately sent to the ESSEX prize at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-12
ADM/A/1813/113
The SAPHIRE and the GARLAND are to cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for 3 month's service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-02-14
ADM/A/1816/211
The petition of Thomas Humphries seventy-six years of age who has endured much hardship in service and is now blind and deaf. He asks for favour and assistance in being granted an allowance.…
Manuscript orderbook kept by Sir Cloudisley Shovell. Copies of orders from the three Admirals (Killigrew, Delaval and Shovell), joint commanders, to the Captains and Officers in their Fleet, and to Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Blue (Manuscript)
1693-01-27 - 1693-09-28
ROM/9
Copies of orders from the three Admirals (Kiligrew, Delavall and Shovell), joint commanders, to the Captains and Officers in their Fleet, and to Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Blue, from 27 January 1693 to 28 September 1693.
Debit and Credit Cash Book covering Captain John Hill’s transactions, for his own voyages, and investments in other ships. (Manuscript)
1676-09-30 - 1688-03
ROM/12
Debit and Credit Cash Book covering Captain John Hill’s transactions, for his own voyages, and investments in other ships, 30 September 1676 to March 1688.
The front cover is lettered in ink with Hill’s cipher and a later note beneath: “Monogram of JOHN HILL.”…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-02-20
ADM/A/1816/234
Captain Thompson of the NEW AFRICA Hired ship bound for New England has notified the Admiralty that he is short of Men and is asking to be allowed some of the soldiers currently aboard the HOPE that is sailing for New England with masts.…
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