Gentn

Having laid before my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 27t Instant, informing them that there are now 123 Rebel Pris­oners confined at Forton, and more soon expected to be committed there, and 234 at Plymouth, and desiring if their Lordships should judge it proper that any farther provision should be made at those Places for other such Prisoners, you may receive their Orders for it, and to ascertain the Number to be provided for at each place; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you, to let them know, for what farther Number of Prisoners provision can con­veniently be made in each of the said Prisons, and the time it will re­quire. I am Gentn [&c.]