Folios 186-187: Wilson Rathbone, Regulating Captain, North Shields. Reports on the...

Folios 186-187: Wilson Rathbone, Regulating Captain, North Shields. Reports on the case of George Blenkinsop, now aboard HMS Namur, and returns the enclosures and the affidavit taken from him at the time of impressment. Blenkinsop was impressed by Lieutenant John Liddle at Sunderland on 23 October as he was working aboard a ship in the harbour. He states that he first went to sea three years ago and had worked as a Shipwright in Portsmouth Dockyard. The Master gave Lieutenant Liddle the first of the enclosed affidavits and the second to Captain Rathbone.

Folios 188-189: enclosed with folios 186-187. Letter from George Main, Sunderland, to the Admiralty, 16 November, 1810. Seeks the discharge of George Blenkinsop, a ship's Carpenter, who was impressed on 22 October and sent aboard HMS Namur at the Nore. Encloses affidavits from Dorothy May, Blenkinsop's mother, and from Carpenter William Waters, plus Blenkinsop's indenture.

Folio 190: enclosed with folios 188-189. Affidavit signed by Charles Sheck, Master of the Walker of Sunderland, before Justice of the Peace Nicholas [Fairles ?], Shields, 25 October 1810. Swears that he has known George Blenkinsop from childhood and that he worked at Portsmouth Dockyard until about a month ago, has never served at sea, and that even when returning from Portsmouth he paid for his and his wife's passage.

Folios 191-192: enclosed with folios 188-189. Affidavit sworn by William Waters, Shipwright, of Panns, Bishop Wearmouth, Co Durham, and by Dorothy May, wife of Thomas Lippington May of Sunderland and mother of George Blenkinsop, before Justice of the Peace the Reverend G Stephenson, Bishop Wearmouth, 23 October 1810. Waters swears that Blenkinsop was impressed at Sunderland, having served an apprenticeship with Thomas Nicholson and worked as a ship's carpenter and then gone to work at Portsmouth Dockyard. Dorothy May swears that she is Blenkinsop's mother and that he was 14 years old when he was bound as an apprentice. He worked with several ship builders and in 1807 went to work at Portsmouth.

Folio 193: enclosed with folios 188-189. Affidavit sworn by Dorothy May of Sunderland, before Justice of the Peace the Reverend G Stephenson, Bishop Wearmouth, 16 November 1810. She is the mother of George Blenkinsop and swears that in 1799 he was bound as an apprentice to Thomas Nicholson, shipbuilder, and that once he had served his seven years, worked with Nicholson as a ship's carpenter and later with Thomas Metcalf, George Raffield and Septimus Burn until 1807 when he went to work at Portsmouth Dockyard, He then took passage back to Sunderland in the Walker of Sunderland, Charles Sheck, Master, but was impressed and is now aboard HMS Namur.

Folio 194: enclosed with folios 188-189. Affidavit sworn by William Walters of Bishop Wearmouth Panns, ship's carpenter before Justice of the Peace the Reverend G Stephenson, Bishop Wearmouth, 16 November 1810. Swears that Blenkinsop served as an apprentice to Thomas Nicholson,, ship's carpenter, and later worked with Thomas Metcalf, George Raffield and Septimus Burn. In June 1807 Blenkinsop went to work in Portsmouth Dockyard. On 3 October 1810 Blenkinsop took passage in the Walker of Sunderland, Charles Sheck, Master, but was impressed on arrival at Sunderland and taken aboard HMS Namur.