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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/242

Captain George Simmonds, Commander of the NORWICH, being ordered on a foreign Voyage, we direct you to cause such Wages as are due to him for service on board any of HM Ships to Michaelmas 1695 to be paid him notwithstanding he has not passed his Accounts.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-19 ADM/A/1834/212

We direct you to cause Doctor Cockburne, Physician of the Blue Squadron, to be paid the Wages due to him from the 15th January 1696, the date of his Commission for that employment, to this day, before he proceeds to the Straits where he is ordered along with Sir Cloudesley Shovell.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-19 ADM/A/1834/222

We direct you to cause the MONCK at Chatham to be fitted out for Sea service in the Channel, manned with her highest complement of Men and victualled for ten weeks.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/191

It has been represented to us by the Captain of the hired Ship SMYRNA MERCHANT at Bristol that he cannot get enough Provisions sufficient to bring him to Plymouth, nor so far as Milford.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/195

You have informed us by your letter of the 14th inst; that the Advice Boat building by Mr Frugar at Arundel, which we have named EAGLE, will be ready to launch the first Spring in October next.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/189

A Warrant was granted on the 3rd September 1695 appointing Mr John Hext Chaplain of the Queen, to inspect and oversee the lives and behaviour of the rest of the Chaplains of his Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean, for which service we think it is fitting that he should have an allowance of Sa…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/187

We direct you to cause Captain Charles Desborow to be paid as Captain of the NORFOLK, from the date of Lord Berkeley's Order to him to command that Ship, which is the 23rd of August last, to the time of Captain Pickard being entered as Commander of her.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/205

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Wade to be Boatswain of the STIRLING CASTLE.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/199

Warrant for the appointment of William Mansfield to be Boatswain of the NEWARK.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-18 ADM/A/1834/197

Warrant for the appointment of John Clark to be Master Carpenter of the hired Hospital Ship SYAM.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-28 ADM/A/1834/355

Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Undy to be Master Gunner of the DUNWICH.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-11 ADM/A/1834/353

Warrant for the appointment of Richard Eason to be Master Carpenter of the ROYAL WILLIAM.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-28 ADM/A/1834/329

Having ordered the DEFIANCE and DUNKIRK up to Chatham we direct you upon their arrival there to cause them to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, provided they need only cleaning and ordinary repairs so as not to delay other Navy Vessels there.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-26 ADM/A/1834/313

We direct you to cause an allowance of twenty shillings per day to be made to Sir Cloudesley Shovell, the Admiral of the Blue, from the time he was last paid to the 25th August last, the date of his Commission to be C-in-C of the Mediterranean Fleet.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-25 ADM/A/1834/307

We direct you to cause the FORESIGHT at Portsmouth and the CHARLES GALLEY and DOLPHIN at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted at those places for Channel service, and victualled for ten weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-28 ADM/A/1834/325

The GRAFTON, BURFORD and SUFFOLK are not in a condition to keep the Sea without repair. We therefore direct you to come prepared on Thursday next to let us know in what Merchants' Yards they can be repaired in case they cannot be conveniently received into the King's Docks.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-26 ADM/A/1834/323

Warrant for the appointment of James Morgan to be Boatswain of the CHARLES GALLEY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-26 ADM/A/1834/317

We direct you to cause the RUSSELL, SUFFOLK and NORFOLK to be surveyed as soon as they come to the Buoy of the Nore, and give us an account of their condition to this Board, together with your opinion at to where they should be ordered to repair.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1834/321

Warrant for the appointment of Robert Knapper to be Master Carpenter of the Yacht ISABELLA.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-25 ADM/A/1834/292

Warrant for the appointment of William Harris to be Master Cook of the CHARLES GALLEY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-25 ADM/A/1834/286

Warrant for the appointment of John Lavis to be Cook of the Fireship CRESCENT.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-25 ADM/A/1834/305

We direct you to cause the Brigantine SHARK, now at Harwich, to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service, and victualled for two months. She is ordered to cruise off Wallet, and while on that service to come to Harwich once in six weeks to clean and revictual.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-25 ADM/A/1834/296

We direct you to cause a survey to be taken of his Majesty's 3rd Rate Ships at Spithead, and return an account to this Board which of them are fit for the Winter service and can be conveniently cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for the next Summer's service.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-29 ADM/A/1864/234

Confirming the award of a Commission by Rear Admiral Nevill Commander in Chief in the West Indies in July 1697 appointing Thomas Peacock to be Third Lieutenant of the CAMBRIDGE; and a Commission granted by Captain Kirkby of the SOUTHAMPTON appointing John Ball to be Second Lieutenant of the PRINCESS…