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<p n="565"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">November 1776</note>
pray and require Your Grace to call upon the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ248">Justices of the peace</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo628">County of Middlesex</rs>
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where of your Grace is Custos Rotulorum<lb></lb>
and strictly enjoin and require them to cause all stragling Seamen<lb></lb>
who are fit to serve or Board his Majestys Ships to be taken up and<lb></lb>
sent by proper persons from place to place until they shall be brought to<lb></lb>
the Clerks of the Cheque of his Majestys Yards at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo629">Deptford</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo630">Woolwich</rs>
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Chatham Sheerness <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo631">Portsmouth</rs>
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Plymouth or to the<lb></lb>
Naval Officer at Harwich according as those places shall be nearest<lb></lb>
to where such Stragling Seaman shall be taken up that so they<lb></lb>
may be put on Board such of his Majestys Ships or Vessels as<lb></lb>
shall be appointed to receive them and that there be paid to the<lb></lb>
persons who shall be intrusted with the Conducting them by the<lb></lb>
aforesaid Clerks of the Cheque or Naval Officer Twenty Shillings<lb></lb>
for each Seaman fit for his Majestys Service, and six pence a<lb></lb>
Mile 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 place<lb></lb>
where no such Clerk of the Cheque or Naval Officer doth reside<lb></lb>
that then the same allowance be paid to the Conductors by the<lb></lb>
Collectors or proper Officers of the Customs residing at or nearest<lb></lb>
to the place whereunto they shall be brought (out of Money to be<lb></lb>
furnished them for that purpose by the Lords of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Treasury as heretofore) upon Certificates from the Captain or<lb></lb>
Commander of the Ship or Vessel whereunto they shall be put or<lb></lb>
from a regulating Captain of his having received them which<lb></lb>
allowance is to be reimbursed to the said Officers of the Customs<lb></lb>
by the principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Navy upon their Transmitting to the said principal Officers<lb></lb>
and Commissioners Authentic Accounts of what Monies they<lb></lb>
shall Expend and so not doubting of Your Graces Zeal and<lb></lb>
Vigour in the performance of this Service we bid Your Grace<lb></lb>
very heartily farewell. From the Council Chamber of St James<lb></lb>
the 8th. day of November 1776</p>
<p n="566">Your Graces very Loving Friends</p>
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o his Grace<lb></lb>
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Duke of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo632">Northumberland</rs>
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os Rotulorum of the County<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo633">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="568"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo634">Dartmouth</rs>
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c:p:s<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo635">Sandwich</rs>
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Clarendon<lb></lb>
Falmouth<lb></lb>
Hinchingbrook<lb></lb>
Weymouth</p>
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