Gent

Having communicated to my Lords Commissrs of the Admty your Letter of the 8th Instant, informing them that two of the Prisoners confined in the Mill Prison at Plymouth, having been seized with the Small Pox, application has been made to the Surgeon by some of the others to be inoculated, and proposing, for the Reasons therein given, that permission be given for such Prisoners who may be desirous of it, to be inoculated; I am commanded to acquaint you, that if there is any part of the Prison in which they can be kept separate from the rest, with out danger of infecting those who are not desirous of being inoculated, their Lordships have no Objection to the causing such of them to be inoculated as are desirous of it. I am Gent [&c.]