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With a small Proportion of Musquets together with Rounds a Gun with the several other appendages necessary there unto will be requisite for said services.

You are therefore hereby required and directed to issue out of His Majesty’s Stores, the aforesaid Guns & Arms & Ammunition, taking his receipt for the same and engaging himself on his Arrival at Sierra Leona, to deliver the Guns together with the Stores that may remain to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or the person Chief in Command of the Settlement for His Majesty’s Service.

I am
Sir
Your most Obedient &
Most Humble Servant,
Richard Bulkeley