Whereas we intend that you shall be employed to procure Men at Haverfordwest and in the Neighbourhood thereof for his Majesty's Fleet, and you will receive herewith a Press Warrant accompanied with printed Instructions for your guidance; You are hereby required and directed to repair forthwith to that Place and, in the execution of the said Service to observe the following Instructions, Vizt

1st

You are (agreeable to the 14th Article of the abovementioned printed Instructions) to open a Rendezvous, to cause Invitation Bills to be printed and stuck up; to enter Voluntier Seamen and Landmen of the Ages and Abilities therein mentioned; and to impress such Persons described in the Press Warrant as will not enter Voluntarily; applying to the Chief Magistrate for his assistance; behaving (and ordering those employed under you to behave) with proper respect to him and to all other Civil Magistrates; and doing every thing in your power, consisting with the well executing the Service hereby entrusted to your Management to cultivate a good understanding with them, and to give no just cause of complaint; And you are to receive all such Seamen fit for His Majesty's Service, as shall be brought or sent to you by the Civil Officers or the Officers of the Vice Admirals of the Maritime Counties; giving to the Persons who bring them the Certificates required by the 13th Article of the said Instructions.

2d

You are to procure two Petty Officers to assist you in carrying on the Service; and, if they are not borne for wages on board an,y of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels, You are to pay them the Wages, directed by the 14th Article of the abovementioned Instructions.

3d

The better to enable you to carry on the Service, you are to form a Gang out of such Voluntiers as may offer, or, ti! Voluntiers offer, to hire a sufficient Number of Land-men for that purpose; paying the hired Men one Shilling and six Pence a day each for Wages, during-such time only as it may be necessary to employ them, but you are to take care that such Gang doth not consist of more Men than may be sufficient for the Service on which you employ them; And that the Number of Men doth not, on any Account, exceed twelve (exclusive of Petty Officers) unless you receive particular Orders from Us to the contrary.

4th

You are to make such Allowances for subsistence to each of the Petty Officers employed under you, And also to the several Persons composing your Gang, and to the new raised Men, as are specified in the 14th Article abovementioned; And to p1y them such travelling Charges and Conduct Money, also specified in that Article, as they may be respectively entitled to.

5th

You will herewith receive one of His Majesty's Proclamations dated the 25th of October last, promising the Bounties therein mention'd to Voluntier Seamen who should enter into His Majesty's Service on or before the 31st of last Month; An.d also another dated the 8th Novr last promising the Records therein mentioned to Persons who should discover Seamen who might secrete themselves, so that such Seamen might be taken into His Majesty's Service, on, or before the said 31st December together with Twelve of His Majesty's Orders in Council of the 20th of last Month, continuing the said Bounties and Rewards to the 28th of next Month, which you are to make as public as possible, And to receive such Voluntiers fit for the Service as shall offer; And you are to give the Certificates, directed by the last of those Proclamations, to such Persons as shall discover Seamen who, in consequence of such discovery may be accordingly taken by you, or those employed under you into His Majesty's Service.

6th

You are from time to time to send the Men whom you shall procure, on board the Wolf Sloop, or any other Ship; Vessel or Tender of His Majesty's that may be in Milford Haven, that they may be carried to Portsmouth or Plymouth, agreeable to the orders her Commander may be under; But, if there shall be none of His Majesty's Ships, Vessels or Tenders in Milford Haven, you are to get the Prest Men secured as directed by the 5th part of the 14th Article abovementioned, until you shall have an opportunity of sending them on board as above directed; taking particular care to send with them a List of their Names &c. as directed by the said Article.

7th

You are to draw upon the Navy Board from time to time for such Money as you may have occasion for to carry on the Service, always taking regular Vouchers for whatever Sums you may pay; keeping exact Accounts of all your disbursements; sending them to the Navy Board Mont[h ]ly; and delivering or causing to be delivered to that Board (when the Service shall be over) a general Account thereof, in the manner directed by the said 14th Article.

8th

You are not to fail to send to our Secretary, every Week so as to arrive at this Office on a Monday an Account under your own hand (as directed by the said 14th Article) of the number of Men procured.

9th

And for your trouble and pains in the execution of the above Service you will have an Allowance of 5 Shillings a Day (being the Pay of a Lieutenant of a 1st Rate) to be paid you by Bill; besides two Shillings and Nine Pence a day for Subsistence, and nine Pence p Mile travelling Charges for your Journey to and from Haverfordwest, as specified in the 14th Article of the said printed Instructions; which Subsistence Money and Travelling Charges, you are to charge in your Account of Disbursements. Given &c the 6th January 1777.

Lieut Richd Philip Shewen
at Pater Church near. Pembroke.
By &c PS.