Folios 500-501: Man Dobson, Bristol Regulating Officer. Encloses Lieutenant Rowe’s...

Folios 500-501: Man Dobson, Bristol Regulating Officer. Encloses Lieutenant Rowe’s report into John Rendals, a black man. Says HMS Enchantress impressed four men that called themselves American. Three of them were sent to prison. Rendals is a stout able man, married at Bristol and reckoned to be one of the best seamen out of this port. Therefore ordered him to be kept onboard HMS Enchantress.

Folios 502-503: enclosed in folios 500-501. Lieutenant John Campbell, Bristol [Impress Service] to Captain Dobson, 8 July 1813. Complain against Mr Cranidge. Runs a petty school in Taylors Court, is notorious and violent, a determined supporter of Mr [Henry] Hunt’s extravagant conduct at the last election. Says he’s an advocate of every disaffected person. Feeling must report seeing his conduct the other day.

Folio 504: enclosed in folios 500-501. Lieutenant Joshua Rowe, HMS Enchantress, Kingroad, 10 July 1813. Impressed John Randle, Able seaman, age 29 years from the Kingston 1 July 1813. Has no protection, calls himself an American, is married to an English woman who resides with her children in Bristol. 9 years at sea, earning £4.10 shillings an six pence a month on board the Kingston which is the highest wages given in port.

Folios 505-506: enclosed in folios 500-501. John Cranidge, Saint Augustine’s Quay, Bristol, 6 July 1813. Writes with deep reluctance. He applied to Captain Dobson for the discharge of John Rendals, a man of colour and native of America impressed from onboard the New Kingston, West Indiaman where he is cook, being disabled as is shown from his discharge from HMS Salvador Del Mondo copy attached and from the American Consol Viz. No 1419, Certificate, John Rendals, age 20 wages paid on HMS Salvador Del Mondo, Supernumerary, 4 September 1804 to 21 September 1804, Discharged because his leg is lame. Vice Admiral William Young, C-in-C Plymouth, Signed Captain John Dilkes. American Consulate, Plymouth, 21 September 1804. Permit for John Rendals to proceed to join his ship the Three Brothers armed. Signed, John Luscombe Secretary to Vice Consul, John Hayker.