Sir

Hearing you Intend to Send the Lynx to England Early in the Spring, I beg you will permit me to Change with Capt [Alexander] Scot[t] into her, In Order to get my health Reinstated which has been bad Ever Since I left England, but worse Since I Came to this Country; your Compliance will Oblige Sir [&c.]

[Endorsed] No. 4: 15th Feby 1776. ー Captain Robert Keeler of His Majesty's Ship Experiment, requesting leave to exchange into the Lynx, in Order to go to England for the recovery of his health. ²