22 [June] Sunday All in good health; but Badly Clothed & much worse fed we are Allowed By Govermt As follows Viz Each Man to have In a Week 7 lb of Brown Course Bread, 7 Quarts of the Smallest of Beer, 4½ lb. of the meanest of Beef, I lb. of Greans, 6 Ounces of Cheese & ½ a Jill of Salt. & some times the Pot Liquor at [after] the fat was taken of[f] —

23d of June Clear & Pleast wr We've had a Contribution box hang­ ing upon the Gate for this ten Days past; But as the Soldiers Receive the Principle part or [of] the Money, for Letting People Come (in at the Outer gate) to see the Americans Horns, we have for this reason taken Down Our Box. all we've Collected Amounts to 17s. to d[ate] which is One penny pr Man —

24th Tuesday Capt John Burnell & Mr [William] Morris his Lieut was this [day] Comttd here; they Belonged to a Small Privateer Named the Montgomery they were lying in a French Port Call'd Sherbone [Cherbourg] An English Cutter Lying off sd port heard of this Capt Burnell Who was an Englishman & had a family Living in England whome he had left for some Family affair the Capt of the Cutter sends a man on Shore &Invited Capt Burnel on Board to Drink some White Ale, he Not knowing him to be an Enemy was Simple Enough to go but when he Step'd On board he was a Prisoner & Brot away Immediately without a Shift to his back, & his Lieut the same the Capt is put into an Apartment by him Self. —

25th J.Wednesday this Day recd ½ pint of Salt for 4 Men pr week as Usual

26th rainy weather Arthur Bennet recover'd from an Eruptive Fever but was Judged to be the Small Pox; Samll Lambert this Day sent to a Hos­ pital fixed in the Other Yard for us, with the S. pox.—

27. More sent to the Hospital Sick

28th Saturday Black Will Employ'd As a Nurse for Our Sick at the Hospl