Charles II and Pepys, Samuel, 1673

LETTER SIGNED BY CHARLES, COUNTERSIGNED BY PEPYS, TO CAPTAIN RICHARD ROOTH

writing during the Third Anglo-Dutch War "upon advice newly received touching the present Strength of the Enemy's

Men of Warr upon the Coast of Spain", with orders that Rooth's ship, HMS Swiftsure, is to command a convoy to

accompany the pilchard fleet from Plymouth to Cadiz, 2 pages, folio, Whitehall, 24 December 1673, docketed, framed

and glazed, some sun damage and soiling, fold-tears repaired

Done