Document signed by Sir John Lowther, Admiralty Commissioner, bap.1642-1706 and Henry Priestman, Admiralty Commissioner, 1647-1712
We direct you to cause the PLYMOUTH and CRESCENT Fireship at Plymouth, and the HUNTER Fireship at Portsmouth, to be fitted out to Sea for Channel Service and victualled for four months as the rest of the Main fleet for this Summer's expedition are ordered to be victualled.