Whereas we think fit that you shall be employed to raise Voluntier Seamen & Landmenat Waterford for the Service of His Majesty's Fleet in the room of Lieut Cunningham, You are hereby required & directed to repair forthwith to that place, & in the execution thereof to observe the following Instructions Vizt:

1st

You are to hire a proper Room for a Rendezvous & to apply yourself with the utmost diligence to the aforesaid Service causing Bills to be printed & stuck up inviting such Voluntiers to repair thereto & taking care not to receive any but who are of strong Bodies & in Health the Seamen not under Eighteen or above Fifty & the Landmen not under Eighteen or above Twenty five Years of Age.

2d

You are to procure a good unemployed Petty Officer to assist you & to pay him Wages as a Midshipman of a 4th Rate for the time you shall employ him & to allow him One Shilling & Sixpence a Day for his subsistence.

3d

You are to subsist such Voluniers as you may procure at the Rate of Six Pence a Day each & when you shall have a sufficient number You are to send them round from time to time together with their Chests & Bedding to Portsmouth in the Adventure Tender & Swallow Tender which ever happens to be in the way, the former under the command of Lt Haynes & the latter under the command of Lt Hodgson: taking care to transmit to the Commander of His Majts Ships & Vessels at Portsmouth a List of their Names with the Days of their respective Entries that they may be borne for Wages accordingly on the Books of the Ships wherein they may be appointed to serve

4th

You are to draw upon the Navy Board for such Money as you shall have occasion for, to carry on this Service, And when it shall be over to deliver to that Board an account of your disbursements making Affadavit 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 mentioned in such Article & no other.

5th

You are not to fail to transmit to our Secretary every Week so as to arrive at our Office on a Monday an Account under your own Hand of the Number of Voluntiers you may have raised distinguishing therein how many you may have procured in the whole & how many since the Account immediately preceeding. And also how many you may have sent round &when, And Lastly

For your care & pains in the execution of this Service you wilL be allow'd Five Shilligs a Day during the time you shall be employed thereon, besides two Shillings & Six Pence a Day for your own subsistence & nine Pence a Mile Travelling Charges for your repairing to, and returning from the place you are hereby appointed to proceed to, both which last mentioned Allowances you are to charge in your Account of Disbursements. Given &c 8 Augt 1776

By &c P S