Give  us  any  intelligence  you  have.  We  trust  the  Lord  will  give  us
wisdom  to  manage  our  great  trust.
P.S. — We  have  sent  the  two  Swedish  and  two  Danish  ships  to
the  Thames,  under  convoy  of  the  Merchant  Adventure.     [1  page.]

May  31.         144.  Gens.  Deane  and  Monk  to  the  Admiralty  Committee.     We
The  Kesoiution.  send  a  certificate  of  powder,  shot,  and  match  bought  of  Capt.  Hen.
Collins,  of  the   Malaga  Merchant,  and  desire  order  to  the  Navy
Commissioners  to  give  a  bill  for  payment  for  them.     [§  page.]

May  31.  145.  Order  in  the  Admiralty  Committee  that  the  Navy  Com-
missioners execute  with  all  possible  speed  the  request  of  the
Generals  for  sending  down  clothes,  at  reasonable  rates,  for  the
seamen  of  the  Resolution,  who  are  in  great  want  thereof.     [|  page.]


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1653.
Vol.  XXXVI.
May  3J.  146.  Rich.  Bradshaw  to  [Robt.  Blackmore].  I  was  glad  to  hear
[Hamburg.]  \)j  the  merchants  that  all  was  well,  and  that  Council  sat  close
to  settle  the  government,  in  which  great  work  God  direct  them.
Mr.  Crisp  desires  you  to  excuse  him  to  Council,  and  wishes  me  to
forbear  charging  my  bills  of  exchange  upon  him  for  the  State,  until
I  have  his  allowance  for  it,  so  that  if  I  had  bought  up  the  whole
parcel  of  powder,  I  should  have  been  at  a  stand  for  money  to  pay
for  it ;  but  I  suppose  your  next  will  give  order,  so  that  I  may  charge
my  bills  for  the  needful  upon  him  or  some  other  merchant  of  knowTi
credit.
Since  the  last  post  I  ha,ve  bought  100  more  casks  of  powder,  and
have  a  promise  of  200  or  300  more,  and  go  on  providing  the  masts,
having  met  with  some  of  23  to  25  palms.
