Here follows the order inclosed in the said Letter and before referred
to

After our very hearty Commendations to your
Grace Whereas his Majestys Service doth at this time require a
Speedy supply of Seamen and Seafaring Men to Man his
Majestys fleet which is now fitting out. We do therefore by his
Majestys Command hereby pray and require Your Grace to [..]
upon the Justices of the peace within the County of Middlesex
whereof your Grace is Custos Rotulorum and strictly enjoin and
require them to cause all Stragling Seamen who are fit to serve
on Board his Majestys Ships to be taken up and sent by
proper persons from place to place until they until they shall be brought
to the Clerks of the Cheque of his Majestys Yards at Deptford
Woolwich Chatham Sheerness Portsmouth Plymouth or to the
Naval Officer at Harwich or Deal according as those places
shall be nearest to where such Stragling Seamen shall be ta [..]
up that so they may be put on Board such of his Majestys
Ships or Vessels as shall be appointed to receive them and than
there be paid to the persons who shall be intrusted with the
Conducting them by the aforesaid Clerks of the Cheque or Naval
Officer Twenty Shillings for each Seamen fit for his Majestys
Service and Six pence a Mile for every Mile they respectively [..]
not Exceeding Twenty Miles: But that if the Men so taken up
shall be sent to any place where no such Clerk of the Cheque or
Naval Officer doth reside that then the same allowance be paid
the Conductors by Collectors or proper Officers of the Customs
residing at or nearest to the place whereunto they shall be brought
(out of the Money to be furnished them for that purpose by the
Lords of His Majestys Treasury as heretofore) upon Certificates
from the Captain or Commander of the Ship or Vessel whereunto
they shall be put, or from a regulating Captain of his having
received them, which allowance is to be reimbursed to the s [..]
Officers of the Customs by the principal Officers and Commission [..]
of his Majestys Navy upon their transmitting to the said principal
Officers and Commissioners authentic accounts of what mon [..]
they shall Expend And not doubling of Your Graces Zeal [..]