Having ordered the Complements of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels under your Command, whose names are on the other side hereof, to be increased to the Numbers against each respectively exprest You are hereby required and directed to give Orders to their Commanders to increase their Complements to those Numbers respectively, and to bear such increased Complements until they receive further Order. Given &c the 5t June 1776.
Palmerston C. Spencer Lisburne
To Clark Gayton Esqr Vice Admiral of the White, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vesels at and about Jamaica
By &c P:S: (By the Packet St June 1776)
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/101, 132.
2. Ibid., 133, orders were also sent to Vice Admiral James Young this date to increase the complements of the ships under his command as follows:
