Letters patent to the lord keeper and privy council authorising them to appoint commissioners for musters in various counties; copy in Martin Man's hand; with modern transcript
Commissioners for musters in Norfolk to Bassingbourne Gawdy: order to be prepared for musters; signed by Nicholas Bacon, Edward Clere and Nathaniel Bacon [Purchased from Parke-Bernet]
Colonel George Townshend, Cranmer, to Philip Case: Mr Collison, a tenant of Lord Townshend, has persuaded two militia men in Eynsford hundred not to take the oaths and enrol; asks what legal penalties should be enforced. With endorsement by Case that this accusation was groundless.
Thomas Corbett, Admiralty Office, to Philip Case, mayor of Lynn: Case has written about several seamen who entered the Swift at Lynn on promise of being discharged; when the present service of watching the motions of the French at Dunkirk is over, she will be ordered back to Lynn.
Philip Columbine, St Quintin, Humber, to [Philip Case], mayor of King's Lynn: asks him to secure deserters, William Gregory and Thomas Preston, if they have gone to Lynn.
Information sworn before John Cary by Elizabeth Gray, widow of John Gray who was killed at Culloden, that her husband's place of settlement was at Yarmouth.
Proclamation adding 20s to the King's Bounty for any seaman freely enlisting at Lynn; every constable who shall apprehend any seaman lurking about is entitled to 20s by the king's proclamation. [draft]
Robert Underwood to Thomas Smith: about his claim for £5 3s for journey from Norwich to Lynn to receive volunteers in the navy service [copy with endorsement
