In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

Her Majesty in a Order in Council on the 6th inst. declared it necessary for the timely provision of sea Victuals be made for 30,000 men for 13 lunar months, commencing 1st. January 1693. We direct you to give orders to the Commissioner of Victualing to timely acquire the said victuals for Sea Service and distribute them to the several Ports vis: London 17000 men; Portsmouth 6000; Plymouth 4200; Dover 2200; Harwich 200; Kinsale 300; Liverpool 50; Milford 50.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1788/143
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1692-10-13
Creator: Cornwallis, Charles; Austen, Robert Lowther, John Cary, Anthony Rich, Robert Onslow, Richard Priestman, Henry
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London