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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-30 ADM/A/1812/347
Directing that the RUPERT at Spithead be repaired and fitted for service abroad as soon as possible and provided with five months' dry provisions and as much wet as she can stow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-23 ADM/A/1801/255
Enclosure: Copy of an Order of the House of Commons requiring the Admiralty to produce a statement of the debt due to seamen last Michaelmas. Signed by Paul Jodrell.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-23 ADM/A/1801/254
Enclosing a copy of an Order by the House of Commons requiring a statement of the debt due to seamen last Michaelmas.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-23 ADM/A/1801/250
The NEW AFRICA Hired ship is to be repaired in a merchant dockyard on the Thames. She is to be surveyed and the Board is to report how long it will take to restore her for service at sea. The cleaning and refitting is to be done at the expense of her owners.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-24 ADM/A/1801/268
Confirming an appointment made by Admiral Russell for Charles Smith to be Master Gunner of the BURFORD. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-24 ADM/A/1812/281
Mr Whittaker the Solicitor for the affairs of the Navy is to be paid four hundred pounds expenses incurred on behalf of the Admiralty.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-24 ADM/A/1812/279
The KATHERINE is to be repaired at Chatham and prepared for service at sea next year.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-25 ADM/A/1812/293
The ROMNEY and the COLCHESTER are to be supplied with a tender for the better management of the ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-26 ADM/A/1812/307
Ordering an express to be sent to Portsmouth to collect a list of men aboard ships bound for the West Indies who have wages due to them for service in any other of HM Ships. After checking the lists they are to be returned to Portsmouth with directions for the men to be paid.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-26 ADM/A/1812/305
Requiring ships and vessels in Sea Pay to be paid to the first of the present month, as occasion arises.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-26 ADM/A/1812/303
Advising that in future no Navy Clerks are to become involved in receiving sailors pay nor to continue stopping their pay in order to settle their debts, and calling for proposals to compensate Clerks who attend pay musters and recalls for their loss of perquesites.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-26 ADM/A/1812/299
Warrant appointing Thomas Absolom, Boatswain of the MACHINE Fireship, to be Boatswain of the BONAVENTURE. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-22 ADM/A/1801/228
Andrew [Kirkby] the Purser of the HUMBER is sick and has been given leave to act through his Deputy Sydney Blackwell who is to be entered on the ships books as such for the duration of the HUMBER'S voyage to the Mediterranean. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-26 ADM/A/1812/317
Having previously been instructed to pay Robert Sinclair, Master of the EDGAR, half of his demand for demurrage in waiting to take off men from the MORDANT when she was wrecked on Cuba, he is now to receive the full eighty pounds having produced a Certificate issued by Captain Maynard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-21 ADM/A/1801/226
Confirming a warrant issued by Admirals Henry Killigrew, Sir Ralph Delaval and Sir Cloudesley Shovell appointing Matthew Margoram to be Purser of the YORK. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.