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16 son and that they are to attest the sealed accounts which Mr. Robertson is to send to the Lords of the Admiralty.

That Mr. John Robison a person recommended by Admiral Knowles as well skilled in mathematics and particularly astronomy be sent in the Deptford to Jamaica who is to find the true time immediately upon the ship’s arrival there, and note the same down before Governor Lyttleton the captain and first lieutenant of the Deptford and Mr Harrison's son who are to attest the same and also to note down the time given by the watch immediately upon the ship's arrival before the same persons and to be attested by them both which times so attested are to be sealed up and sent to the lords of the Admiralty.

And Rear Admiral Holmes is to be directed when the Observations made as aforesaid to order Mr Harrison and Mr Robinson a passage home in the first ship that sails for England repeating the observations for finding the true time &c. in the same manner before the ship comes away