In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

We have ordered the hired Ship ENGLAND Frigate in Kingroad near Bristol to convoy several ships from there into the Sea and then to return to Bristol again. We direct you upo her arrival there to cause her to be cleaned and refitted into a condition for the Sea at the charge of her Owners. Her Commander, Captain Cooper, has informed us by his letter of the 11th inst; that he has only forty nine days Provisions and you are to order her being victualled for three months at Bristol when she returns there.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1810/142
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1694-08-13
Creator: Lowther, John; Rich, Robert Rooke, George Houblon, John
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London