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<p n="524"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo483">Northumberland House</rs>
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5th. July 1779.</p>
<p n="525"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Gentlemen</note>
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<p n="526">Having receiv'd an Order of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
Most Honourable Privy Council directed to me as Custos<lb></lb>
Rotulorum of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo484">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, requiring me to<lb></lb>
call upon His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ240">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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within the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo485">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, and strictly to enjoyn and require<lb></lb>
them to cause all Straggling Seamen who are fit to<lb></lb>
Serve on Board His Majesty's Ships, to be taken up and<lb></lb>
sent by proper Persons from Place to Place until they<lb></lb>
shall be brought to the Clerks of the Cheque of His<lb></lb>
Majesty's Yards at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo486">Deptford</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo487">Woolwich</rs>
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, Chatham,<lb></lb>
Sheerness, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo488">Portsmouth</rs>
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, Plymouth or to the Naval Officers<lb></lb>
at Harwich or Deal according as those Places shall be<lb></lb>
nearest to where such Straggling Seamen shall be taken<lb></lb>
up, that so they may be put on board such of His<lb></lb>
Majesty's Ships or Vessels as shall be appointed to receive<lb></lb>
them and otherwise to be dealt with as in the said Order<lb></lb>
is directed.</p>
<p n="527">In Obedience therefore to the said Order I have<lb></lb>
given directions to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50714_n527-1">Henry Collingwood Selby</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ241">Esquire</rs>
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The<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ242">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo489">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to lay the<lb></lb>
said Order before You for Your Consideration, not doubting<lb></lb>
but</p>
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