| Description | Includes references to seeing Mr Boucher and delivering accounts to him; being sent from Leghorn but driven westward as far as Villa Frank; being unable to see Mr Charronat Leghorn; a dispute with Mr Byng's surgeon, who had demanded bills in favour of Mr Roberts from him for the Admiral to compare and who had then cancelled them; receipts for Oil and Tallow and for the first forty bullocks killed for the fleet; other accounts delivered to Mr Byng/Mr Boucher; he is now in the Terrible sloop, having changed with her Purser Mr Harding; a disagreement with Mr Byng's surgeon about the charge for the remains of stores and flour; money in his hands for Grimston, being 1284 livres and 4 sols, some of which he has used for supplying the Cruizer with necessarys; no money received for necessary's for 8 months apart from prize money due at Leghorn; required to use the money because Captain Wynne had quitted the Vessell; poor quality of rum which he was unable to sell at the price of previous Puncheons and the loss of 29 gallons he blames on Mr Byng's surgeon and the Genoese making free with some which was left in the house; glad to hear of an improvement in health but unhappy at groundless and malicious reports; 250 Quintals of wood unaccounted for |