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