Folio 345: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Replies to a letter with application...

Folio 345: Samuel Colquitt, HMS Princess, Liverpool. Replies to a letter with application and affidavit from Mr Whiteley for the discharge of William Booker on the basis that he has fits. States that he did not have a fit for the 8 days he was on board the ship and was discharged into the Friendship tender on the 12 [February 1806] for the disposal of the Commander in Chief at Plymouth.

Folios 346-347: enclosure with folio 345. Affidavit dated 12 February 1806 by Elizabeth Booker, lately of Liverpool but now of Toxteth Park, widow, mother of 10 living children, William Devaynes of Liverpool, Cooper, Mary Yates, the wife of Thomas Yates of Liverpool and Ann Hall of Liverpool, servant of Thomas Yates, sworn at Liverpool. Elizabeth Booker said her son William Booker is now impressed, sent by the Hanover Street gang on board HMS Princess. Since the age of 7 he has been subject to epileptic fits sometimes 2 in 3 months and at other times once or twice a year. These fits deprive him of memory and render him unfit for corporal labour for 10 or 14 days. William Devaynes says he and William Brooker were fellow apprentices for 7 years during which time he was afflicted as stated. He remembers that once he had 3 fits in about a month which prevented him from working for over a month. Mary Yates has known William Brooker for 8 or 9 years and frequently visited him at his mother's after having the falling fits. Testifies to his condition. Ann Hall says for the last 7 years she has been servant to Mary Yates and remembers seeing William Brooker suffering from fits.

Folios 348-349: enclosure with folio 345. Letter from dated 15 February 1806 from Samuel Whiteley, Liverpool, to William Marsden, Admiralty. Asks for the enclosed affidavit concerning the case of William Brooker, an impressed man on board HMS Princess, to be presented.