Whereas we intend that you shall be employ'd to raise Voluntier Seamen & Landmen in & about Town for the Service of His Majesty's Ship Ambuscade at Chatham; You are hereby required and directed to observe the following Instructions Vizt
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You are to hire a proper Room for a Rendezvous, and to applv yourself with the utmost diligence to the aforesaid Service causing Bills to be printed and stuck up, inviting such Voluntiers to repair thereto and taking care not to receive any but who are of strong bodies and in health, the Seamen not under Twenty or above fifty and the Landmen not under Eighteen or above Twenty five years of Age.
2d You are to send such Men as you may procure from time to time with their Chests and Bedding under the care of one of your Petty Officers on board such Tender at Tower Wharf as Capt. [Robert] Kirk (who is employ'd to regulate the Service of raising Men in and about Town) shall direct, her Commander being order'd to receive and convey them to the Nore, where they are to be put on board His Majesty's Ship the Conquestador in order to their being sent to Chatham, you are to take particular care that Lists be sent at the same time of their Names and times of Entry, distinguishing the Seamen from the Landmen, that they may be transmitted to the Captain of the Conquestador and by him to Chatham when they proceed thither, in order to their being enter'd for Wages accordingly on board the
Ambuscade.
3d You are to apply to the Navy Board for an Imprest of Twenty pounds which we have order'd for you and when the same is expended you are to let Us know it, And you are at liberty to charge Two Shillings and nine pence a day for your own subsistence and to pay the Petty Officers employ'd under you one Shilling & nine pence a day each for their subsistence also, during the time you shall be employ'd as aforesaid.
4th You are to send an Account every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to our Secretary of the Number of Men rais'd distinguishing therein how many you have procur'd in the whole, and how many since the Account immediately preceeding. 5th When this Service shall be over, you are to. deliver to the Navy Board an Account of your disbursements making an Affidavit at the foot thereof in the following form Vizt. "This Deponent maketh Oath that the Sum charg'd against each particular Article was expended for the purpose mention'd in such Article & no other." Given &c. the 10th Feby 1776. Lieut Patk Sinclair in Town Sandwich J. Buller H. Palliser By&c. G.J. DS.
