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<p n="1141">Rotulorum and Strictly enjoyn and require them to Cause<lb></lb>
all Straggling Seamen who are fit to Serve on Board His<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1589">Majestys Ships</rs>
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to be taken up and Sent by proper Persons<lb></lb>
from Place to Pace until they Shall be brought to the Clerks<lb></lb>
of the Cheque of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1141-1">His Majesty</rs>
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's Yards at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1154">Deptford</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1155">Woolwich</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1156">Chatham</rs>
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Sheerness <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1157">Portsmouth</rs>
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Plymonth or Harwich<lb></lb>
according as those Place Shall be nearest to where Such<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1141-2">Straggling Seamen</rs>
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Shall be first taken up that So they may<lb></lb>
be put on Board Such of His Majestys Ships or Vessels as will<lb></lb>
be appointed to receive them and that there be paid to the<lb></lb>
Persons who Shall be entrusted with the Conducting them<lb></lb>
by the aforesaid Clerks of the Cheque twenty Shillings for each<lb></lb>
Seaman fit for <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1141-3">His Majesty</rs>
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's Service And Six pence a Mile<lb></lb>
for every Mile they respectively Travel not exceeding Twenty<lb></lb>
Miles-But that if the Men So taken up Shall be Sent to any<lb></lb>
Place where no Such Clerk of the Cheque doth reside that then<lb></lb>
the Same Allowances be paid to the Conductors by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1590">Collector</rs>
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<lb></lb>
or proper Officer of the Customs residing at or nearest to the<lb></lb>
Place whereunto they Shall be brought upon producing<lb></lb>
Certificates from the Captain or Commander of the Ship or<lb></lb>
Vessel where into they Shall be put of his having received<lb></lb>
them on Board which Allowance is to be reimburst to the<lb></lb>
Said Officers of the Customs by the Principal Officers and<lb></lb>
Commissioners of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1141-4">His Majesty</rs>
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's Navy upon their<lb></lb>
transmitting to the Said Principal Officers and Commissioner<lb></lb>
Authentick Accounts of what moneys they Shall have<lb></lb>
expended And So not doubting of your Grace's zeal and<lb></lb>
Vigour in the Performance of this Service We did your<lb></lb>
Grace very heartily Farewell from the Council<lb></lb>
Chamber at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1158">Kensington</rs>
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the 15th. day of June 1739</p>
<p n="1142">To This Grace<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1142-1">Thos, Holles</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1591">Duke</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1159">Newcastle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Custos Rotulorum of the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1160">Middlesex</rs>
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and City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1161">Westminster</rs>
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<p n="1143">Your Grace's very Loving Friends</p>
<p n="1144">To. Cant<lb></lb>
Wilmington. P.<lb></lb>
Abercorn<lb></lb>
Fitz Walter<lb></lb>
Torrington<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1144-1">Cha. Wager</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1144-2">Ar. Anslow</rs>
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