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November 1776
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pray and require Your Grace to call upon the
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where of your Grace is Custos Rotulorum
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and strictly enjoin and require them to cause all stragling Seamen
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who are fit to serve or Board his Majestys Ships to be taken up and
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sent by proper persons from place to place until they shall be brought to
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the Clerks of the Cheque of his Majestys Yards at
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Plymouth or to the
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Naval Officer at Harwich according as those places shall be nearest
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to where such Stragling Seaman shall be taken up that so they
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may be put on Board such of his Majestys Ships or Vessels as
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shall be appointed to receive them and that there be paid to the
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persons who shall be intrusted with the Conducting them by the
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aforesaid Clerks of the Cheque or Naval Officer Twenty Shillings
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for each Seaman fit for his Majestys Service, and six pence a
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Mile for every Mile they respectively Travel not exceeding Twenty
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Miles but that if the Men so taken up shall be sent to any place
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where no such Clerk of the Cheque or Naval Officer doth reside
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that then the same allowance be paid to the Conductors by the
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Collectors or proper Officers of the Customs residing at or nearest
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to the place whereunto they shall be brought (out of Money to be
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furnished them for that purpose by the Lords of his Majestys
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Treasury as heretofore) upon Certificates from the Captain or
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Commander of the Ship or Vessel whereunto they shall be put or
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from a regulating Captain of his having received them which
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allowance is to be reimbursed to the said Officers of the Customs
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by the principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majestys
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Navy upon their Transmitting to the said principal Officers
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and Commissioners Authentic Accounts of what Monies they
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shall Expend and so not doubting of Your Graces Zeal and
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Vigour in the performance of this Service we bid Your Grace
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very heartily farewell. From the Council Chamber of St James
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the 8th. day of November 1776
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Your Graces very Loving Friends
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o his Grace
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Duke of
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Clarendon
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Hinchingbrook
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