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Whereas you have represented to Us by your Letter of the 24th of last month, that you had received a Letter from Sir Peter Parker informing you that the Companies of His Majesty's Ships under his command, employed on an expedition against Charles Town South Carolina, had been afflicted with the Scurvy and other disorders, and as there was not any Hospital or place on shore to receive them, he had...
Date: 23 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Vice Adml Amherst having represented to my Lords Commrs of the Admty that many of the Rebel Prisoners who are now on board the Belleisle at Plymouth, are diseased and their Lordships having directed him to cause such of them as are under that description to be sent ashore to the Hospital, taking care tha:t they are guarded so as to prevent their making their escape; I am commanded by their...
Date: 13 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Whereas you have represented to Us, by your Letter of the 25th of last month, that you had received information from Vice Admiral Montagu that the Ships under his command which lately returned from Newfoundland were, during the last Season, very sickly, and that the Hospital at St John's was very inconvenient, being used also as a Brewhouse and Cooperage, which you thought very improper for an...
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I beg leave to acquaint You that I have received from the Levant 72 Prisoners, most of them very ill of Billious Fevers, their disorders being much aggravated from the total want of Bedding & the extreme filth of the Privateer, insomuch that they are swarming with Vermin; I have taken every precaution possible to prevent any infection from spreading among Our Men, by keeping them intirely...
Date: 24 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Whereas an Act passed in the present Sessions of Parliament "To empower His Majesty to secure & detain Persons Charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason committed in any of His Majestys Colonies or Plantations in America or on the High Seas or the Crime of Piracy" in which there is a Clause that makes it lawful for His Majesty by his Warrant under his sign Manual to appoint one...
Date: 19 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Whereas we think fit that Mr William Cowdry shall be Keeper of the Old Mill Prison, and Agent for taking care of the Prisoners intended to be confined therein; You are hereby required and directed to appoint him Keeper of that Prison and Agent for taking care of those Prisoners, accordingly; with a Salary of one hundred and twenty Pounds p Annum, to commence this day and to continue til' further...
Date: 21 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Whereas you have represented to Us by your Letter of the 22d instant, that upon considering in what manner it may be most proper to victual the Prisoners to be committed to Forton & old Mill Prisons you are of opinion that the Allowance which was made for the subsistence of Rebel Prisoners under the care of your Board in the Year 1745, Vizt
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Date: 30 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Lords Commissrs of the Admty having Ordered Mr Seddon their Solicitor to direct his Agents at Portsmouth and Plymouth, so soon as they shall be respectively informed that the Prisons which by their Lordships order of the 19th of last Month you were directed to prepare for the Reception of the persons therein mentioned shall be in all respects ready, to apply to the Commander in Chief of His...
Date: 8 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I am commanded by my Lords Commissrs of the Admty to signify their directions to you to let them know what number of Prisoners have been received into the Prison at Forton near Portsmouth and Mill Prison near Plymouth, in consequence of their Lordships order of the 19th of last month; And to report once a month for the future the numbers in each of those Prisons. I am &c.
Date: 28 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Having communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 15th Instant, transmitting in original a Letter you received from the Physician and Council of Haslar Hospital, with an order from Sir James Douglas addressed to the Agent directing him to receive into the said Hospital Seventy Prisoners from New England, and desiring that you may receive their Lordships directions...
Date: 17 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admiralty Your Letter of the 21st Instant, informing them of your having received One from the Keeper and Agent of the Prison at Forton, acquainting you that Eleven of the Prisoners2 had on the 20th in the Morning made their escape by breaking through the Wall, notwithstanding a Centinel had been placed in the Prison day & night; I am...
Date: 25 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Beg to acquaint you, on the 24th Inst I received two Prisoners one of which is John Burnell late Commander of the Montgomery Privatier, at the same time received an Order from the Justice, to keep him confined by himself, which I have done in one of the small Prisons in the upper Yard, being the only place not occupied: the same evening I waited on the Justice to know his reason for his being...
Date: 27 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before my Lords Commissrs of the Admty your Letter of the 30th past, informing them that Mr Bell is returned from visiting the Prison at Forton,2 and hath reported, that with respect to the Buildings, in some of which the Prisoners are now confined, no security against Attempts to escape can be derived from any strength of those buildings, but that the prevention of their...
Date: 10 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Whereas you have represented to Us, by your Letter of the 25th of last Month, that the Keeper & Agent of Forton Prison had acquainted you that two of the Prisoners, who had escaped, had been retaken & brought back to the said Prison,2 and that, as the Persons who retook them had learnt the Route which two of the others had taken, he had encouraged a Pursuit of them, by...
Date: 10 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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...
Date: 12 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before my Lords Comissrs of the Admiralty your Letter of the 28t May last, enclosing one which you had received from Mr Chas Moulton, late Master of the Ship True Love, and the Papers which accompanied it, representing that having been taken by the Rebels,2 he procured the release of himself and her Crew, upon condition of his using his endeavors to procure the release of...
Date: 14 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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,...
Date: 30 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
To the Honble the Commissioners for Sick & lame Seamen, the Petition of Thomas Haley Humbly Sheweth,
That your Petitioner is an Englishman and was one year in his Majestys Service in Virginia under the Earl of Dunmore, and that he was one of the Crew, belonging to a Vessell sent from Norfolk in that Colony to the Island Bermuda by order of the said Earl of Dunmore, and on his return was taken...
Date: 21 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 12. instant giving an account of the Escape of two of the Prisoners part of the Crew of the Lexington Privatier who were sick in the Hospital,1 and proposing if they shall be retaken to apply to the Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Ships in the Downes to receive them on board; and I am commanded by...
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 6t. instant, with the Extract of one from your Surgeon and Agent at Liverpoole, relative to the American Prisoners brought in there; I am to acquaint you that their Lordships have sent the same to the Earl of Suffolk in order to receive His Majesty's Pleasure upon the Subject; and in the mean time it is their...
Date: 9 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11