Here follows the Order inclosed in the said Letter, andabovebefore
referred to.

After our very hearty Commendations to your Grace, Whereas
his Majesty's Service doth at this time require a Speedy Supply of
Seamen and Seafaring Men to Man his Majesty's fleet which is
now fitting out: We do therefore, by his Majesty's Command, hereby
pray and require your Grace to call 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 Majesty's
Ships, to be taken up and sent by proper persons from place to
place until they shall be brought to the Clerks of the Cheque of
his Majesty's Yards at Deptford , Woolwick, Chatham, Sheerness,
Portsmouth , Plymouth, or to the Naval Officer at Harwich or
Deal, according as those places shall be nearest to where such
Straggling Seamen shall be taken up, that so they may be put
on Board such of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels as shall be
appointed to receive them; and that 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
Seaman fit for his Majesty's Service, and six pence a Mile
for every Mile they respectively travel, 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 to the Conductors by the
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 Majesty's
Treasury as heretofore) upon Certificates from the Captain or