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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-16 ADM/A/1841/182
Christian Brothers has been convicted of forgery on the evidence of Elizabeth Farringdine and Sarah Ryley and for for forging a Letter of Attorney and Will of Roger [Hindy] of the MORDANT. An Order is given for the two women to be rewarded.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-30 ADM/A/1841/339
Calling for the accounts of the Second Marine Regiment when under the command of Henry Killegrew in order to compare them during the time of the Earl of Pembroke and Torrington; and for a survey to be taken of the SMYRNA MERCHANT Hired ship lying at Blackwall.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/7
Having ordered the GLOUCESTER to Portsmouth we direct you uponn her arrival there to cause the Commander and all the Officers and Company of her, excepting the standing Officers and their allowed Servants, to be turned over into the MARY to serve in her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/9
On the 22nd of April last we directed you to order the the Commissioners of the Registry to take care for recovering the Freight for the Goods lately brought from the Straights by Captain Moodie of the YARMOUTH, contrary to our Instructions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/3
Application has been made by Mr Power, Muster Master at Bideford, for an increase of Salary. We direct you to give us your opinion whether the business the said Officer has at that Port does merit a greater allowance, and if so what you judge fitting for him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/5
We did sometime since direct you to cause Captain Lumley of the SWEEPSTAKES to be suspended from his employment. We direct you to cause the said suspension to be taken off, and that his Pay go on as if no such suspension had been laid on him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-30 ADM/A/1841/283
Requiring some of the Men aboard ships fitting out in the Thames to be put aboard the NAMURE lately launched at Woolwich to help in taking the ship down to Longreach.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-30 ADM/A/1841/277
The HIRONDELL or SWALLOW'S Prize recaptured from the French is now at Kinsale. An Order is given for all of the equipment on board her when brought into port is to be given to the Prize Officers there.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-30 ADM/A/1841/275
The ships named on the reverse of this letter have been detailed to guard the mackerel fishing fleet and are to be victualled for between four and six weeks for their highest complements of Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-30 ADM/A/1841/293
Captain Wivell of the Association, Port Commander at Portsmouth, has informed the Admiralty that there is an acute shortage of foodstuffs in ships at that Port to the extent that he is considering putting Men ashore.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-04-28 ADM/A/1841/269
Ordering the THUNDERBOLT Prize to be cleaned and refitted at Milford and the RAINBOW on her arrival at Kinsale. Both ships to be supplied with ten weeks Victuals for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-29 ADM/A/1820/239
1. Cleaning of the SPEEDWELL is to be postponed until she has received her guns.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-24 ADM/A/1820/247
Warrant given by the Right Honourable Edward Russell, appointing Ralph Trotter, to be Boatswain of the RUSSELL, his predecessor having died.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-01 ADM/A/1820/258
Requiring a report on the proposals contained in the enclosed copies of letters sent by Colonel Russell, Governor of Barbados, to the Committee for Trade and Plantations, in which he requests that the island be supplied with a Sloop or Brigantine of the type built at Jamaica.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-25 ADM/A/1820/197
Warrant appointing Samuel Staples, to be Master Carpenter of the RUBY, Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-19 ADM/A/1820/152
When the ESSEX arrives at Sheerness, she is to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-19 ADM/A/1820/154
Peter Jolliff of Poole, having recaptured a ketch from Weymouth from a French privateer and then chasing the privateer ashore near Lulworth where she broke up, is to be rewarded with a medal and chain.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-20 ADM/A/1820/162
The Commissioner at Chatham wished to know what priority he should give to the various works he had been ordered to carry out, viz
- docking and refitting the MONTAGUE;
- the VICTORY;
- the small frigate ordered to be built according to Lord Carmarthen's instructions;…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-21 ADM/A/1820/172
Confirmation of a Warrant given by Sir Francis Wheler, Admiral and Commander in Chief, Mediterranean, on January 27th, 1694, appointing William Sherwood, to be Master Carpenter of the YORKE; his predecessor, Joseph Bolton, having been appointed to the SUSSEX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-23 ADM/A/1842/387
Warrant for the appointment of John Turner to be Boatswain of the DUNKIRK.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-01 ADM/A/1842/377
Warrant for the appointment of Philip Webber to be the Boatswain of the new 4th Rate Ship building by Mr Taylor at Rotherhithe.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-21 ADM/A/1820/273
The next foul ship to come into Plymouth for cleaning is, instead of being cleaned there, to convoy the KATHERINE, STORESHIP, to Kinsale. Having done that, the escort is to be cleaned there, if possible.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-04 ADM/A/1832/43
In consideration of your report of 1 July on the petition of Samuel Goodman, formerly Master of the RUPERT, you are directed to allow him the wages due from the time he was first on board the ketch that attended on the ship.