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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)
1694-08-15
ADM/A/1810/150
We have received the Account of the proportion of Stores which you say are making ready with all dispatch to be sent to Mr Russell, and it being thought necessary to let him know the time when they can be ready to be sent.…
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
1694-08-08
ADM/A/1810/81
We direct you to cause the Advice Boat POST BOY to be cleaned at Dover and put into a condition for the sea.
We having ordered her Commander to to repair there once a month for the future in order to her being cleaned, you are also to cause the same to be done accordingly.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-28
ADM/A/1863/232
Requiring Richard Hart to be paid as Provost Marshall of the Fleet between April and December of 1697 providing there are no objections.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-29
ADM/A/1863/236
Instructing the repairs due to various ships and vessels named in the margin to be put in hand at Plymouth; and giving orders for preservation work to be carried out on the Hulks in Ordinary at Portsmouth and Chatham, including applying rosin and tallow every Spring and a coat of tar in winter but r…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-21
ADM/A/1863/187
Agreeing to pay Edward Horton, Carpenter's Mate, as Carpenter for his time in the ANGLESEY in response to his Petition.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-12-15
ADM/A/1860/157
Giving directions for the Clerks of Admiral Aylmer and others to be retained until the end of the present Quarter.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1698-12-15
ADM/A/1860/155
Confirmation that Richard Brookes, a Boy belonging to the SPEEDWELL, was instrumental in exposing a conspiracy to seize the ship and sail it away together with the QUEENBOROUGH for which a man was hanged. Brookes is to be awarded twenty pounds for advancement in the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-23
ADM/A/1863/207
Requiring the NORWICH to be paid off and laid up on arrival at Woolwich.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-24
ADM/A/1863/211
Requiring the MONMOUTH to be supplied with Provisions at the Nore to enable her to proceed to Portsmouth to take on money and proceed further to Plymouth to pay the dockyard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-24
ADM/A/1863/213
Ordering the "Q's" and "R's" on a number of Men listed in a recent Petition to be taken off.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-25
ADM/A/1863/215
Approving credit for the East India Squadron to be sent after them by the first available Merchant ship. The money is to be charged to Captain Warren, Commander in Chief of the said Squadron.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-03-25
ADM/A/1863/221
Lifting the Order for mulcting the wages of Captain Billop for failure to comply with his instructions provided the Navy Board, upon review, is satisfied he should be paid - including money due for his servant William Bedford.
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