Editing Navy Board (section)

===Tudor and Stuart period===
''List of Principal Officers and Commissioners 1546-1660 included.
* the [[Lieutenant of the Admiralty]], (He presided over the Navy Board from 1546-1564 until he was superseded by the Treasurer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodger|first1=N.A.M.|title=The Admiralty, Offices of State|date=1979|publisher=Terence Dalton Ltd|location=Lavenham|isbn=0900963948|page=5}}</ref> 
* the [[Treasurer of the Navy]] originally called ''Treasurer of Marine Causes'' he was Senior Commissioner of the board from 1564-1660<ref>{{cite web|last1=Thrush|first1=Andrew D.|title=The Navy Under Charles I, 1625-1640|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317789/1/284540.pdf|website=discovery.ucl.ac.uk|publisher=University College London, Ph.D. Dissertation, p.68, June 1990|access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref>
* the [[Surveyor of the Navy]], originally called ''Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy'' (1546-1660)
* the [[Clerk of the Acts|Clerk of the Navy]], originally called ''Clerk of the Kings Ships'' (1546-1660)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Thrush|first1=Andrew D.|title=The Navy Under Charles I, 1625-1640|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317789/1/284540.pdf|website=discovery.ucl.ac.uk|publisher=University College London, Ph.D. Dissertation, p.68, June 1990|access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref>
* the [[Surveyor of Marine Victuals]] (1550-1679) (against protocol he was added under monarchs, Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Thrush|first1=Andrew D.|title=The Navy Under Charles I, 1625-1640|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317789/1/284540.pdf|website=discovery.ucl.ac.uk|publisher=University College London, Ph.D. Dissertation, p.68, June 1990|access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Sainty|first1=J.C.|title=Surveyor of Marine Victuals 1550-c. 1679 Institute of Historical Research|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/navymarine|website=history.ac.uk|publisher=Historical Research Institute, University of London, 2003|access-date=26 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* the [[Comptroller of the Navy (Navy Board)|Comptroller of the Navy]], originally called the ''Clerk Comptroller of the Navy'' was in charge of Naval spending he also acted as Chairman of the Board from 1660.  
* the [[Keeper of the Storehouses]], also called ''Clerk of the Storehouses'' he was briefly a member in (1546–1560) his duties were later merged with the treasurers.
* the [[Master of Naval Ordnance]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Archives|first1=The National|title=accounts as master of naval Ordnance|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13726196|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|publisher=Gloucestershire Archives, 1561-69|access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref> specifically assigned officer from the Ordnance Board was briefly a member from (1546–1589).
Instrumental in the early administration of the Navy Office were between four and seven "Principal Officers" though some were styled differently prior to 1660. [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] added a fifth between 1625 and 1640 they included:{{Sentence fragment|date=December 2021}}.<ref>{{cite book|title=FOURTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR Revising and Digesting the Civil Affairs of His MAJESTY'S Navy|date=1806|publisher=Digitized, Oxford University, 2006|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MC9bAAAAQAAJ&q=Commissioner%2C+Clerk+of+the+Accounts+Navy+Board&pg=PA7|language=en}}</ref> 
As defined by a set of [[wikt:ordinances|Ordinances]] drawn up under Henry VIII's successor, [[Edward VI]], the Navy Board was given a high degree of autonomy, yet remained subordinate to the [[Lord High Admiral of England|Lord High Admiral]] until 1628. This – at times ambiguous – relationship with [[The Admiralty]] was an enduring characteristic of the board, and was one of the reasons behind its eventual demise in 1832.<ref name=Hamilton1896>{{cite web|last1=Hamilton|first1=Sir Vesey|title=Naval Administration (1896)|url=http://www.pdavis.nl/NA01.htm|access-date=11 September 2015}}</ref>