In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

No date recorded. Enclosure: "Considerations offered to Sir Charles Bickerstaffe['s] Reasons for their Majesties' Buying all sorts of English Timber at the first hand". Five reservations are made including the problem of the trustworthiness of the person appointed to act in buying the timber, the risk of buying unsuitable timber contained in lots, the difficulties involved in obtaining winter felled timber, the need to establish when and by whom the Order in Council was obtained for buying East Country plank and the fact that the bulk felling of New Forest timber was already ongoing. Note: No reason number 4 appears in this document.