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I have communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 24th instant informing them of the Naval proceedings under your Cognizance, And inclosing One you received from Lieut Colonel Irving Lieut Governor of Guernsey, giving an Account of a Snow from Dublin being at Poinbeuf upon the Loire, loading with Ammunition for America, I am &c
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The King having been pleased, by His Order in Council of the 17th of May 1776, to order, require, prohibit and command, That no Person or persons whomsoever (except the Master General or principal Officers of the Ordnance for His Majesty's Service) do at any time, during the Space of three Months, to commence from the 23d day of the Month abovemention'd, presume to Transport into any parts out of...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In pursuance of the King's pleasure signified to Us by the Earl of Suffolk, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; in his Letter of the 15th instant, You are hereby required and direoted to cause the Rebel Prisoners belonging to the American Armed Vessel the Dalton, lately taken and brought into Plymouth by the Raisonable, to be kept in safe Custody on board such of the Ships under...
Date: 17 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . in answer to their Lordships enquiry respecting a Lieut & three Men late belonging to the Sturdy Beggar American Privateer, who were brought to Plymouth in the Ranger Sloop, four Men said to have belonged to a Rebel Privateer were brought to Plymouth in the said Sloop, one of whom was an Irishman, & the other three Americans, & upon the Nonsuch being ordered to Sea you caused...
Date: 18 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . With respect to John Evans who has received 165 Lashes in part of the punishment inflicted on him by Sentence of a Court Martial, and who in the Opinion of the Surgeon will not be in a condition to undergo the remainder of his Punishment for a considerable time, I am to acquaint you that, upon your intercession therein, their Lordships are pleased to remit the remainder of the Punishment...
Date: 28 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 7 Inst informing them of the diseased Condition of the Rebel Prisoners on board the Belleisle & of most of them being over run with Vermin for want of Cloaths to Shift themselves; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you, to cause those that are diseased to be sent on shore to the Hospital,...
Date: 11 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 11th inst informing them that the Somerset has been dock'd & the Raisonable taken into Dock in her room; that upon the Torbay's being order'd to Sea you have caused the Rebel Prisoners2 to be removed to the Burford; that the Seven Prisoners on board the Experiment, who belonged to an American Vessel 3...
Date: 14 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 2nd inst desiring to know, for your future guidance whether, if any American Merchants Vessels shou'd be brought into Plymouth, as .Prizes, you are to cause their Crews to be entered as part of the. Complements of the Ships under your Command & their Masters to be put on shore agreeable to the Act of Parliament passed in...
Date: 15 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 21st inst inclosing the State & Condition of His Majts Ships & Vessels under your Command also a Letter to Mr Winn, a Merchant at Plymouth, giving an Account of the Albion being driven into Mounts Bay in distress, & informing their Lordships that the Somerset is Sail'd from Plymouth & that Lieut [James] Kinnaer...
Date: 25 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Having communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 1st instant, transmitting a Petition which you received from Joseph Rowe, the Master of the American Vessel lately taken by the Albion, 2 praying for the dismission of his Brother in Law Enoch Grinliffe one of the Crew of the said Vessel, who is at present detained on board the Albion, and informing their...
Date: 7 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Lords Commrs of the Admty having received the inclosed Petition from Wm Wright and John Williamson Seamen representing that having thro' want, entered on board an American Brig at St Eustatia, they were taken in her, by His Majts Ship Experiment & carried to Plymouth and are now on board the Queen, and praying that they may have permission to enter on board that, or any other of His Majts...
Date: 18 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
There being reasons to believe that a Ship supposed to be now on her passage from Quebec may have on board some Rebells who have been taken Prisoners in that Province; I am commanded by my Lords Commrs of the Admty to signify their direction to you in pursuance of the Kings pleasure signified to them by Ld Geo Germaine that you give Orders to the several Captains of His Majestys Ships &...
Date: 11 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having taken into consideration the case of Captain [John] Macartney who is under orders of suspension and has been brought to England in the Boyne, in consequence of the order (Copy of which came in your Letter of the 26th of last Month) from Vice Admiral Graves, to the Captain of the said Ship, by which Order he is forbid to go out of the Ship without...
Date: 1 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3