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near Middlewich
Cheshire
9th July 1777
Esteemed Friend
I am laid under the necessity of intreating this assistance, on behalf of a poor man belonging to our profession who is impressed on board, a man of war, and I believe conscientiously refuses to fight. The following is an extract from a letter sign'd by some reputable persons of our persuasion at Kings Bridge in Devonshire which will explain the whole matter.
"One Richard Wakeham has lived with one of the subscribers several years as a servant and for five or six years , has constantly attended our meetings. In the late war with France, he belongd to a man of War. The circumstance being made known to some of [indecipherable] men, or officers in the Navy, they soon got intelligence where he was, and about a week ago (now about a month), one Mitchel Lieutenant of the Spry Sloop of War, now lying at Dartmouth for impressing men, took the sd [said] R. Wakeham out of his masters shop, conducted him to Dartmouth, and put him on board the Spry."