By &c.
Whereas we think fit that you shall be employ'd to raise Voluntier Seamen in and a:bout London for the Service of His Majesty's Bomb the Thunder at Deptford; You are hereby required and directed to observe the following Instructions Vizt
1st
You are to hire a proper Room for a Rendezvous, and to apply yourself with the utmost diligence to the aforesaid Service, causing Bills to be printed and stuck up, inviting such Voluntiers to repair thereto, and taking care not to receive any but who are of strong Bodies & in health, and not under Twenty or above fifty years of Age.
2d
You are to send on board the said Vessel from time to time as you shall see convenient under the care of your Petty Officer such Seamen as shall enter with you, together with their Chests & Bedding & to transmit to her Captain at the same time a List of their Names, noting the Days in which they respectively enter'd, that they may be borne for Wages accordingly in the Books of the said Vessel.
3d
You are to apply to the Navy Board for an Imprest of Twenty Pounds which we have order'd for you, & when the same is expended you are to let us know it; And you are at liberty to charge Two Shillings & six pence a day for your own subsistence, and to pay the Petty Officer employ'd under you one Shilling & six pence a day for his subsistence also, during the time you shall be employ'd as aforesaid.
4th
You are to send an Account every Monday, Wednesday & Friday to your Secretary of the Number of Men raised distinguishing therein how many you have procur'd in the whole, & how many since the Account immediately preceeding.
5th
When this Service shall be over you are to deliver to the Navy Board an Account of your disbursements making an Affidavit at the foot thereof in the following form Vizt
"This Deponent maketh Oath that the Sum charged against each particular Article in the foregoing Account was expended for the purpose mention'd in such Article and no other.["]
Sandwich J. Buller Lisburne
Given &c the 3d Novr 1775.
To Lieut Robert Deanes
of His Majts Bomb Vessel Thunder
in Town By &c. P.S.
