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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.
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/1820/150
The tender to the LYNCOLN is to be discharged.
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