In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

Your letter of June 29th last represent it as absolutely necessary that a small Storehouse should be erected in the Rope ground at Chatham for the accommodation of the Yarns in the Halls of thirty nine feet long and eighteen feet wide. We received an estimate of the Charges in your letter amounting to ninety seven pounds ten shillings.
We direct you to take this work in hand and performed according to the Estimate.
We direct you to cause the HARWICH, sunk at Plymouth, to be broken up according to your proposal with the best husbandry that may be.
You are also to cause the JULIAN Prize to be fitted for receiving two Guns more than she now has, as offered in your letter of 30th June.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1785/23
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1692-07-04
Creator: Cornwallis, Charles; Lowther, John Priestman, Henry Cary, Anthony Austen, Robert Rich, Robert
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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