In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

Orders are given for the Earl of Danby and Lord Berkeley to recruit two regiments of Marines consisting of one hundred men in each company. Each man is to receive forty shillings bounty and lists of names of existing and newly recruited Marines are to be given to the Navy Board which is to apply to the Treasury for funds to cover the same.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1805/74
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1694-03-07
Creator: Cary, Anthony; Lowther, John Austen, Robert
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London