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386 our Necessities, consult with him and desire he will give you all the assist- ance in his Power and we doubt not but he will readily advise and assist you and that by his Means you may be recommended to many Persons of Wealth and Distinction. If any other of the Trustees should happen to be in England whilst you are engaged in this Business, you are to consult with them from time to time, as occasion may require. The Treasurer was "ordered to pay him the sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds Currency which is advanced towards the charge that may attend the service" and they add "we trust you will lay it out with the utmost Frugality and be care- ful to Keep an exact Account of every Expence that you shall be put in the Prosecution of this Business." The dangers of a voyage in those times were provided for ; Mr Peters on our behalf has given you a Credit on Mess Barclay & Co as far as an hundred Pounds Sterling. If you arrive safe there may be no use for it, but in case you shall fall into the hands of the Enemy it may be of use to obtain a decent support and a quick Exchange and conveyance to England. The instructions continued with precision and thorough- ness to the end. If in six Months after your arrival in England you shall not meet with Encouragement nor see any Prospect of it, we would have you lose no Time but take the first opportunity that shall offer of returning home. But if you shall meet with good success, we think it too great a Risque for you to carry large sums of Money about you, and therefore order you whenever the sum collected becomes considerable to pay or order it to be paid into the Hands of Mess Barclay & Co. whom we have appointed our Agents for the receipt of all sums that shall be collected on this Occasion, sending them always along with the Money or Order an exact List of the Names of such as you shall have received it from which Lists we would have trans- mitted to us from Time to Time that we may know how you go on. * * * You will not fail to write full accounts of your proceedings to us by every opportunity; and adding " we most heartily pray for your Safe Arrival and good Success," this statesmanlike document was concluded. Dr. Peters' schooling in the Service of the Proprietaries had well qualified him to draft the proper instructions to a plenipoten- tiary. Armed with these letters and guided by these instructions,