To the Sheriff of the County of Suffolk Greeting

Whereas Capt Dechamps of the Ship Duchess of Mortimar from France has requested this Board that one John Selham one of the hands belonging to said Ship may be by order of this Board confined in common Goal in said County Therefore You are hereby Ordered and directed to apprehend one John Selham a Sailor onboard the Ship lately arrived from France and commit him to the Goal in this Town, and keep him 'till further Order of Council whereof fail not and this shall be your sufficient Warrant