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as may be ready, & accompany them to the Nore, where she is to remain for farther Order.
13.
And when the Service will admitt, You are to send Home the other Ships and Vessels, vizt: Two of the former & the Spy Sloop to Plymouth, and the rest to Spithead, directing their Commanders to take under their Convoy any homeward bound Trade that may be ready & willing to accompany them, & to see them in Safety as far as their Way lies together.
14.
By the End of October, You are to take under your Convoy the Fishing Ships which may be then bound to Portugal & Spain, and seeing them off their respective Ports, as far to the Southward as Cadiz, You are at Liberty to tarry there Ten Days; (but on no account to exceed that Time) at the Expiration whereof, You are to put to Sea with such homeward bound Trade as may be ready and willing to accompany You, and to call at Lisbon for such Trade as may be ready to said with You from thence homeward in Eight Days, at farthest, after your arrival there; and taking them also under your Protection, see the whole in Safely to Spithead, where You are to remain till farther Orders, sending Us an Account of your Arrival & Proceedings. But in Case You shall find it necessary or more eligible to send a Frigat to perform this Service, You are at Liberty to do so, and in that Case to proceed in the Ship you command directly to Spithead, with any Trade homeward bound from Newfoundland that may be ready & desirous of accompanying You. Given under our Hands the 14th of May 1765.
To Captain Pallisser, Commander of His Majesty's
Ship Guernsey, & Commander in Chief of His
Majesty's Ships & Vessels employed, & to be
employed, at & about Newfoundland.
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By Command of Their Lordships
PHP STEPHENS.
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A LIST OF HIS MAJESY'S SHIPS AND VESSELS TO BE EMPLOYED THIS YEAR UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE PALLISER FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FISHERIES AT AND ABOUT NEWFOUNDLAND.
| Rate. | Ship's Names. | Commanders. | Stations. |
| 4 | Guernsey | Capt Hugh Palliser | |
| 5 | Pearl | Chaa Saxton | Between Cape Ray and Cape
Race. |
| — | Lark | Saml Thompson | Between Cape Bonavista and
Quirpont inclusive. |
| — | Niger | Sr Thos Adams | |
| 6 | Aquilon | Hble P.F. Perceval | |
| Slo. | Zephir | John Hamilton | From Point Riche to St Barbe
on the coast of Newfound-
land, & from the River
St John to York Harbour
on the Coast of Labrador. |
| — | Spy | Thos Allwright | |
| Schooner | Hope | Lt John Candler | |
| Snow | Egmont | Archd Dickson | |
[Endorsed] Copy of Instructions to Commodore Pallisser Dated 14th May 1765.
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