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Here follows the Order inclosed in the said Letter, and
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After our very hearty Commendations to your Grace, Whereas
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his Majesty's Service doth at this time require a Speedy Supply of
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Seamen and
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to Man his Majesty's fleet which is
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now fitting out: We do therefore, by his Majesty's Command, hereby
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pray and require your Grace to call upon the
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Justices of the Peace
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within the
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, whereof your Grace is Custos
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Rotulorum, and strictly enjoin and require them to cause all
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Stragling Seamen, who are fit to serve on Board his Majesty's
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Ships, to be taken up and sent by proper persons from place to
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place until they shall be brought to the Clerks of the Cheque of
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his Majesty's Yards at
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Deptford
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, Woolwick, Chatham, Sheerness,
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Portsmouth
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, Plymouth, or to the Naval Officer at Harwich or
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Deal, according as those places shall be nearest to where such
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Straggling Seamen shall be taken up, that so they may be put
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on Board such of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels as shall be
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appointed to receive them; and that there be paid to the Persons
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who shall be intrusted with the conducting them by the aforesaid
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Clerks of the Cheque or Naval Officer twenty Shillings for each
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Seaman fit for his Majesty's Service, and six pence a Mile
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for every Mile they respectively travel, not exceeding twenty Miles
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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 to
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the place whereunto they shall be brought, (out of the money to be
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furnished them for that purpose by the Lords of his Majesty's
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Treasury as heretofore) upon Certificates from the Captain or
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