[Admiralty Office] 15 Jany. 1778
Sir
I have communicated to my Lords Cornmissrs: of the Admiralty your Letter of Yesterdays date giving an account of the arrival of the Bedford &. Proserphine.
Their Lordships observing by the State and Condition of the former that there are on board her ten Rebel Prisoners who belonged to the Sturdy Beggar Privatier; It is their direction that you take the proper measures to have them committed to Forton Prison I am &c.
P.S.
LB, UkLPR, Adm. 2/556, fol. 317. Addressed at foot: "Captn. Roddam, Senior Officer, Portsmouth." Notation in the margin: "Our Rect. & directed to cause some Rebel Prisoners to be committed to Forton Prison."
