We have already directed that the Ships and Vessels bound for foreign voyages shall be victualled for four months dry and three months wet Provisions for their highest complement of Men at whole allowance .
They are required to proceed from the place where they will rendezvous with the aforesaid entire Provisions, and we therefore direct you to cause those of the Ships and Vessels which are in the River and going to Spithead, to be furnished before they sail with one months dry Provisions more, and that such of the said Ships at Portsmouth be once in in every fourteen days, or at such times as the C-in-C shall desire, furnished with Provisions in lieu of what they spend, so that when they sail they may have on board the whole of the Proportions ordered tham, and you are to take the like care that the Ships which go from the River do proceed with the same both wet and dry.