In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

Your letter of 4 April gave an account of the prices at which slopsellers would furnish the several species of clothes which we ordered be put on board their Majesties ships. You advised us that the bedding, not hitherto furnished by the slopseller, he was unwilling to supply this on the same terms as the clothes. You proposed that, since you cannot obtain bedding without ready money, that this should be left out of the establishment for clothes and that 1500 beds, blankets and pillows amounting to £750 should be provided distinctly for ships now going out. You are directed to buy these on the best rates to be had and put on board the respective ships and the seamen who desire them should have the cost deducted from their wages as they are paid. You are forthwith directed to solicit the Treasury for the money necessary for such bedding.

Object Details

ID: ADM/A/1767/97
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Herbert, Thomas; Lee, Thomas Lowther, John
Date made: 1690-04-07
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 page
Parts: Navy Board, In-Letters And Orders (Manuscript)