| Description | Includes references to Grimston's esteemed favour of 30 May 1755 having been delivered on 13 August following; Sir Edward Hawke having returned home with the major part of the fleet; having transmitted Messrs Thompson and Seward in Feb 1749 a fair and just state of his account with the late Admiral Medley; a discharge from Mr Read to convince them that the part of the Flag's share of the said Prizes not accounted for by Lewes lay in the hands of Mr Read; giving orders to William Jenkins, one of the Commissioners of Victualling, to pay the balance of the account to the Exors of said Admiral on their giving him a full discharge and resigning him by Note of hand dated 29 Aug 1745 for £4172.2.4 lodged in his hands by the Admiral which he had paid to Sir William Rowley, on him producing the Admiral's receipt for the same; having expected that all Dependancies between himself and the late Admiral Medley would have been brought to a Crisis until his Friend had written to him in May 1751 that the Ballance of his account would not be accepted unless he could account for what was coming to the Adm[ira]l from Mr Read; Grimston's friend Major Wilkinson; the fault entirely laying with Grimston's late Father in listening to litigious and unjust Councels; it being a vast satisfaction to him that [Grimston] considers things in a more equitable light and hoping that he will accept the balance that was so long ago offered; having delivered Grimston's letter to Mr Read and Lewes' right to a Note of hand that Sir William Grove and Sir William Rowley had satisfied Grimston's late Father that Lewes had paid the amount to Sir William |