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Manuscript Warrant, signed by five members of the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports, addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy, appointing “the Royalist frigatt (late under Command of Captaine Coxe) to be employed as a Pacquett boat” between Liverpool and Carrickfergus, “or such other place, in Ireland, as she shall be appointed to, by the Commission for Ireland”, ordering that the ship be fitted and furnished as necessary for that service. 1 page 11 x 8 inches, very fine, with the integral blank leaf, docketed. Westminster, 25 August 1646. Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC (1599-1680), statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642. Denis Bond (1588–1658), merchant and politician. John Rolle (1598-1648), Parliamentarian, Cornish M.P. Alexander Bence (born c.1590), merchant and politician; in 1642 he was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of the Navy.