| Description | Includes references to Grimston' skind reception of him at Kilnwick making him feel that Grimston would stand his friend; his difficulties in applying to an agent and the exorbitant premium he must pay them when he wants money to fit out; having written to the "Villanous Scoundrill Kilvington"; having arrived at Plymouth where the Commiss[i]oner behaved to him as a Nephew of Mr Medleys as he had been brought up under him; having delivered his warrant to the Clark of the Cheque and having been mustered purser of the Pembrooke, as fine a sixty gun ship as is in the Navy; a Nephew of the Duke of Bedford, Capt[ain] Proby, one who his Uncle Medley made up the straits, is to Command her, he having quitted a Ninety gun ship for her; them imagining that he intends to make his fortune in her, therefore hoping that he will do the same for him; her not being launched until soon after Christmas so not expecting to be at sea until the middle of March; desiring Grimston's assistance to fit out a sixty gun ship and having appointed Mr Hollinworth, Mr Fanshaw's Clark on Tower Hill as his agent |