[Admiralty Office] 31st May 1777.
My Lord./
Having communicated to my Lords Commissrs of the Admty, your Letter of the 27th Instant, enclosing one which you received from Capt: Jervis of the Foudroyant, accompanied by a List of American Prisoners who are on board that Ship; I am commanded to acquaint your Lordship that the Prisoners who belonged to the Rebel Privateer Freedom are to be sent to Mill Prison, & that such of the others as are fit for the Kings Service, are to be entered on board such Ship as you shall judge proper, & the remainder to be set at Liberty, I am &ca
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1. PRO, Admiralty 2/555, 38-39.