By the Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c

Whereas Mr. Robert Faulkner has been Educated in the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, and is well qualified to serve His Majesty at Sea, you are hereby required and directed to receive him on Board His Majesty's Ship under your Command, and enter him as one of her Complement.

You are to take Care that he applies himself to the Duty of a Seaman; and he is to have the Privilege of walking the Quarter-Deck: You are to allot him a proper Place to lye in, without setting up any Cabbin; and you are to rate him Voluntier by Order, which will intitle him to Able Seaman's Pay.

You are to oblige him to keep a Journal, and to draw the Appearance of Head-lands, Coasts, Bays, Sands, Rocks, and such like; and you are to take Care, that the Master, Boatswain, and School-master, do instruct him in all Parts of Learning, that may qualify him to do the Duty of an Able Seaman and Midshipman.

After two Year's Service at Sea, you are to rate him Midshipman Ordinary, or Midshipman, if he shall be qualified for it.

When your Ship shall be at Spithead, or in Portsmouth Harbour, you are toclirect him to attend the Mathematical Master, in order to his examining his Journals, and representing to Us how he has improved himself.

And, at the End of the Service in the Ship under your Command, you are to give him such a Certificate of his Sobriety, Diligence, and Skill in the Profession of a Seaman, as he shall deserve; as also, of the Length of Time he has served with you, either as a Voluntier by Order; or a Midshipman.

Given under Our Hands the 18th Day of February 1777 —

To The Honble Capt. Cornwallis
Commander of His
Majesty's Ship
the Isis Portsmouth
By Command of their Lordships.
Ph^p Stephens