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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-14 ADM/A/1835/161
You are directed to have the SCARBOROUGH, upon arrival at Deptford, sheathed and fitted for a foreign voyage and her victualling completed to 4 months. You are to have her present number of men reduced to her middle complement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-15 ADM/A/1835/173
You are directed to have the NORFOLK, IPSWICH and RUSSELL, upon arrival at Woolwich, cleaned and refitted there, or in a merchant yard, for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-13 ADM/A/1835/141
You are directed to give us notice of when you would have the great ships at the Nore ordered up to Chatham for repairs. You are also to furnish Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who is going with a squadron to the Straits, with sufficient credits for £4,000.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-12 ADM/A/1835/137
You are directed to give an account to this board every week from the several yards, the muster of the ships in ordinary there, officers and men. You are to have the provisions aboard the ESSEX prize, in the Nore, completed to 10 weeks.…
Document signed by George Rooke, 1650-1709, Admiral of the Fleet and Admiralty Commissioner under King William III (Manuscript) 1696-05-25 ADM/A/1830/336
Copy of a list of required butter and cheese required by the fleet, for 63 ships individually listed and named.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-06 ADM/A/1842/94
It appears to us by the Weekly Progress that the ADVENTURE will not be dispatched before the 29th of this month, and as she is required as soon as possible we direct you to cause more hands to work on her in order to expedite her dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-05 ADM/A/1842/53
We direct you to cause a months Provisions to be sent down to the CENTURION in the Hope. You are also to give Orders that the Provisions aboard the HENRY Prize be completed to ten weeks, either at Yarmouth or the Nore, at which place she shall first arrive.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-05 ADM/A/1842/65
The Yacht HENRIETTA at Deptford, having in her late voyage to Holland sprung her Topmast, we direct you to cause her to be forthwith fitted with another Topmast.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-03 ADM/A/1842/19
We direct you to cause the BRISTOL and SOCIETY Hospital Ships, now in the River Thames, to be furnished with so many Men from the Yards, and Ships which are fitting out in the River, as may be sufficient to carry them to the Hope.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-03 ADM/A/1842/21
We have ordered the ROCHESTER to Chatham and the COVENTRY to Deptford to be cleaned and refitted. We direct you upon their arrival there to cause their repairs to be immediately taken in hand with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-02 ADM/A/1842/14
A List of Slop Cloathes supplied by the Slopsellers of His Majesty's Navy to the respective Ships of the Fleet, as there shall be occasion, the several Particulars of Slop Cloathes hereunder mentioned , for the use of the Seamen serving in the said Ships. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/192
A Warrant was given by Admiral Russell dated 18th April 1695 for Mr Samuel Cocker to be a Volunteer on board the DRAGON. We direct you to cause the usual allowance to be made him during the time he served in that capacity on board the aforesaid Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/190
Warrant for the appointment of George Austen to be Master Gunner of the CHATHAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/208
Warrant for the appointment of Nathaniel Button to be Master Gunner of the ROYAL TRANSPORT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/198
We direct you to cause the MEDWAY upon her arrival at Plymouth to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, and victualled for ten months accordingly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-12 ADM/A/1842/165
We direct you to cause all such of the twenty Oared Boats as have been built for Fleet service, and are now either in the Thames, or at Chatham or Sheerness, to be fitted for service to be in readiness when the C-in-C at the Nore shall send for them and you are to let us know where these Boats now a…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-13 ADM/A/1842/176
We direct you to cause to be imprest unto the Colonel of each Marine Regiment the sum of one thousand pounds for the subsistence of the Men belonging to the Regiments. You are to solicit the Treasury for the said Money.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-11 ADM/A/1842/157
The NORWICH, CHATHAM and SHEERNESS are returned to Spithead, having received considerable damage by engaging several French Ships in the Soundings.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-26 ADM/A/1841/257
The DISPATCH Brigantine and SHARK have been ordered to leave the Wallett at intervals and to go into Harwich for regular cleaning. The SWAN has been ordered into Biddeford or Barnstable for cleaning and to be supplied with ten weeks Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-19 ADM/A/1841/226
A ten oared boats is to be supplied to the Governors of Portsmouth and Plymouth. One from Stores at Portsmouth and the other to be built at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-20 ADM/A/1841/228
Ordering the ADVENTURE to be cleaned and refitted at Deptford for service in the Channel and victualled for ten weeks for her highest complement of Men. The PLAY Prize is also ordered to Deptford where she is to be surveyed and a report issued.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-17 ADM/A/1841/198
Captain Thomas Jennings of the LONDON is to be relieved of the charge on his Books of having an inordinate number of Men aboard his ship for a single day in excess of the ship's complement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-16 ADM/A/1841/184
John Yeames, late of the EAGLE Merchant ship, is to receive a medal for meritorious service in bringing a vessel into port after she had been taken and was actually in possession of the Enemy. A sum of money is to be released to the Mint for that purpose.