_Lieutenant-General Guest to Walter Grossett_
JOSHUA GUEST Esq^r Lieut. General and Commander in Cheif of
all His Majesty’s Forces, Castles, Forts and Barracks in North
Britain etc.
His Majesty’s Service Requiring that all Vessells and Boats
of whatever Size be instantly removed out of the Harbours of
Borrostouness, Queensferry, Leith or any where else upon the
South Coast of the Forth betwixt Leith and Stirling, Those at
Borrostouness and Queensferry to the Road of Borrostouness or
Such other place or places as you shall think most for His
Majesty’s Service at this Juncture; those at Leith to the Road
of Leith or such other place as you shall judge most proper for
said Service; These are therefore Authorizing and Empowering you
to put the said order in Execution, and to which purpose the
Commanders of His Majesty’s Ships of War or others employ’d in
the Kings Service, are hereby Required to give you their Utmost
Assistance, as are all Magistrates, Justices of the Peace,
Constables, and all other Persons, Civil or Military whom these
may Concern. A Copy hereof sign’d by you shall be a sufficient
warrant to any Person required or empower’d by you in the
Execution hereof as they will answer to the Contrary at their
highest Peril.
Given at Edinburgh the 21^{st} day of Decem^r 1745.