I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th inst; about Convoy for the Ships named in the margin which are to load Stores at Ireland for Naval service. This is to inform you that an Order has been sent to Commissioner Tymenell, or in his absence the Clerk of the Cheque at Kinsale, directing the first of the Men of War which comes in there and is bound to England, to Convoy the said Storeships to the places where they are to load and to attend on them during the taking in their Stores, and then to bring them to Plymouth.
Ships named in the margin-PURVEYOUR, MUSCOVIA, KATHERINE and CANTERBURY.