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You are hereby required and directed to put to Sea, with the first opportunity of Wind and Weather, in the Ship you command, and proceed and cruize between the Lizard and the Start Point to procure Men for His Majesty's Fleet agreeable to the Press Warrant agd Instructions which you have received, particularly from the homeward bound Merchant Ships Victualling all such new raised Men as your Ships Company during their continuance on board; And when you have procured as many as she can conveniently corntain or have lent so many of her Men as she can spare to Merchant Ships to navigate them in lieu of those you may take from them; You are to repair to Plymouth and dispose of the said new raised Men as Vice Admiral Amherst or the Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Ships there shall direct; delivering with them Lists of their Names, with Notations thereon of the respective times of their coming into the Service that they may be entered for Wages accordingly on the Books of the Ships wherein they may be appointed to serve, and sending to our Secretary an Account of the Numbers procured.

You are occasionally during your being employed as aforementioned, to stretch over to the Coast of France, & endeavour to intercept such of the American Vessels as are alluded to in the Intelligence you will receive in a Letter from our Secretary of this date.

In case of bad Weather you are to anchor in Plymouth Sound or Torbay, and to enquire for Orders, and not finding any to the contrary to return as soon as the Weather will admit and cruize as above directed. Given &c the 10th Febry 1777.
Captn Sawyer, Boyne, Plymouth.
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