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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-09
ADM/A/1761/115
Send provisions to Liverpool for Captain Rooks Irish Squadron. Order a ship be fitted for the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-13
ADM/A/1761/176
Supply Captain Lawrence Wright, Commander, The DUNKIRK, with such vessels as he requires for transporting men to his ship. How many Tenders will be sent with the Squadron to the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-03
ADM/A/1761/29
To Pay Captain John Frankmoor, Commander the GEORGE, £190 for Listing, Entertaining, and Transporting Seamen from the West Country to Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-03
ADM/A/1761/33
To pay £14-6s-6d. To Thomas Bedford, Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, for passing two commissions under the Great Seal.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-07-04
ADM/A/1761/51
Hospital ship for Ireland to be immediately got ready.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-12
ADM/A/1766/47
Captain Gardner, commanding the SALLY ROSE cannot buy provisions at Hull because he is unable to obtain credit. Credit to be arranged and the vessel provisioned for three weeks or a month.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-15
ADM/A/1766/57
To know whether there is any precedent for the Master of a ship carrying the Admiral of the Fleet to have an assistant and, if so, which Admiral that was and what wages were paid to the assistant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-15
ADM/A/1766/55
The SOVEREIGN to be supplied with lanterns having green glass such as the French and other foreign ships use. To be made to the specification of the Earl of Torrington.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-01
ADM/A/1766/3
Warrant appointing Sampson Bourne, late Master Attendant at Sheerness, to be Master Attendant at Chatham; his predecessor, Captain John Bemboe [Benbow], having been appointed to Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-03-06
ADM/A/1766/19
Captains Samuel Atkinson, Henry Greenhill and Humphrey Ayles to receive an annual salary of £420, together with an allowance of £30 for a clerk, for their service in the [BUSINGSON] transporting troops to Ireland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-19
ADM/A/1765/79
We direct you to give immediate directions for supplying their Majesties' Ships at Spithead which are designed for the Straits with Admiral Russell, and those for the West Indies under the command of Captain Lawrence Wright, with such a proportion of Provisions as will complete what they now ha…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-22
ADM/A/1765/95
A request is made by Mr St. Michell, late Commissioner of the Deptford and Woolwich Yards, that he, together with his Clerks, may have his Salary for the whole of the Midsummer Quarter last, whereas his employment at those Yards was discontinued, which we think fit to allow.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-09-26
ADM/A/1769/313
Desire and direct to buy the Naval Stores and Commodities on board the Swedish Ships sent in by Sir Ralph Delaval.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-23
ADM/A/1765/99
We having appointed the GUARDLAND to carry Governor Sloughter to New York, we direct you to cause her to be sheathed and refitted at Deptford for that service, and supplied with six months victuals proper for such a voyage.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-11
ADM/A/1769/329
If any of the Great Ships in the Medway are ready to be paid Sir Richard Beach to pay them otherwise he and his clerks to return to London. SAINT MARLO MERCHANT, WELCOME, CHARITY, SEA VENTURE, and PROSPEROUS to be paid off on their arrival in the River Thames.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-11
ADM/A/1765/39
We direct you to cause the JAMES GALLEY at Blackstakes to be supplied with her Provisions, and what else she needs, so that she may proceed to the Downs, according to our directions to her Commander.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-11
ADM/A/1765/47
We are sending you on the other side a List of the Ships lately ordered by this Board to be fitted now for this years' service at sea, over and above those already abroad, and direct you with all possible dispatch to consider and report to us, against each of the said Ships' names, the res…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-11
ADM/A/1765/41
By a Warrant from Arthur Herbert (now Earl Torrington), Admiral of the Fleet in the Narrow Seas, dated May 2nd 1689, Thomas Horner was appointed by him to be Provost Marshall of the Fleet, which he performed from May 2nd 1689 to October 2nd 1689, the time of his discharge from the ELIZABETH.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-29
ADM/A/1769/293
SALLY ROSE now at Deptford to be fitted for service in the Channel and furnished with 3 months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-16
ADM/A/1765/63
We have considered your letter of yesterday's date and direct that a proper Person be appointed and sent down to Plymouth to act as Clerk of the Survey and be allowed a Salary of sixty pounds per annum.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-02
ADM/A/1765/1
Captain Wise, Commander of the hired Ship MARY at Deptford, desires in his letter of the 31st last month that he may have two dozen Hammocks for his Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-10-11
ADM/A/1769/241
RUPERT, PLYMOUTH, YORK, HARWICH, PHEONIX, and JAMES GALLEY to be refitted at Portsmouth and the PEARLE at Deptford. The WILLIAM AND ROBERT Dogger to be discharged the Service at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-04
ADM/A/1765/12
We direct you to cause the MORDANT and MONCK to be fitted and cleaned upon their arrival at Portsmouth, where they are ordered for that purpose.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-01-04
ADM/A/1765/10
We direct you to cause the Provisions the SAMUEL & HENRY and SCEPTRE need to complete what they are directed to be supplied with, to be put on board the JAMES at Gravesend, the CULPEPPER at Blackwall, and the BOOTH at Blackwall, which are going under their Convoy to Virginia, by putting a propor…
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