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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1829/98
An undated Petition of James Ivers, Ropemaker, to be considered for the position of Master Ropemaker at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-09 ADM/A/1829/105
Captain Lyell, Commander of the MILFORD, has informed us that Beer is needed at Yarmouth. We direct that you immediately give Orders to the Victualling Commissioners to provide for such Vessels coming to Yarmouth that are in need of Beer.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-15 ADM/A/1829/155
We direct you to cause the Bomb vessels FURNACE, CARCASS, BLAST, GRANADA and TERROR at Woolwich to be victualled for two months each.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-15 ADM/A/1829/151
Having ordered the Bomb Vessels SERPENT, COMET, THUNDER and BASILISK to Deptford, we direct you, upon their arrival there to cause them to be refitted, put into condition for Sea, and victualled for two months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-13 ADM/A/1829/135
Having ordered the several Bomb Vessels from the Downs to the Buoy of the Nore which were lately employed in Bombarding Calais, we direct you to give your opinion where they may most conveniently be refitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-11 ADM/A/1829/127
We direct you to cause the PARAMOUR Pink to be furnished with twelve months Stores for a Foreign voyage.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-15 ADM/A/1829/163
Having ordered the CHESTER, lately returned from the West Indies, to Chatham, to be cleaned and refitted, we direct you to take this in hand as soon as may be, and cause her to be manned to her highest complement of Men for Channel service, and furnished with four months Provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-18 ADM/A/1829/191
A Commission was given by Admiral Russell dated the 8th June 1695 for Captain Bazill Beaumont to be Captain of the BURFORD. We direct you to cause his Wages to be paid for the time he commandes this Ship, if you have no objection other than his Commission not being renewed by this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-18 ADM/A/1829/189
We are informed by Mr Pacy, Muster Master at Yarmouth, that the Lieutenants and Master of the WINCHELSEA with her Pinnace and Yawl and twenty Men were ordered by their Commander on the Coast of Holland to retake a Transport Ship, which service they performed and carried her into the Fleet, but the…
Document signed by William Bridgeman, c.1646-1699, English civil servant and Secretary to the Admiralty between 1694 and 1698. (Manuscript) 1696-04-27 ADM/A/1829/196
I am directed by the Admiralty Commissioners to inform you that upon reading your letter of today's date, about the importing of such Foreign Commodities needed by the Navy, their Lordships have resolved to lay a Memorial concerning that matter before the King tomorrow morning.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-19 ADM/A/1829/201
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Wagstaff to be Purser of the FOWEY.