_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 a number of Vessells and
Boats be hired for Transporting of His Majesty’s Forces, These
are therefore authorizing and Empowering you to hire such a
number of Vessells and Boats and make such agreement with them as
you shall judge necessary at this Juncture, and I hereby oblige
myself to make good such agreement, for which this shall be your
Warrant. Given at Edinburgh this 22^d December 1745.