Folios 276-277: Joseph Short, [Regulating Officer], Lynn [Kings Lynn]. Covering letter...

Folios 276-277: Joseph Short, [Regulating Officer], Lynn [Kings Lynn]. Covering letter for the enclosed from Lieutenant Thomas Chambers (Regulating at Wells [Wells-next-the-Sea] under his orders]. [Accusations made by Lieutenant Thomas Chambers about Captain Joseph Short. Total of two plus sides].

Folios 278-279: enclosure with folios 276-277. Letter dated 12 April 1798 by Thomas Chambers, Rendezvous Wells [Wells-next-the-Sea], to Joseph Short, [Regulating Officer], Lynn [Kings Lynn]. States that last Saturday evening your Midshipman Yaxley called upon him with a letter from John Armstrong resident of Lynn [Kings Lynn] to know if he would accept a Substitute in the room of James Forrest Mate of the Society which he did not approve of without it had been your Order. He mst acknowledge that your manner of addressing yourself to him is very unbecoming the Gentleman for all the Superior Officers he has ever under since he has been in the Navy. He never experienced such behaviour on the 18 of January1798 had you wrote to the Admiralty requesting for him to be under your direction without ever assigning to him any reason.

Folio 280: enclosure with folios 276-277. Lieutenant William Dalton, Lynn [Kings Lynn]. [April 1798]. Memorandum:- That William Harris was brought by the Midshipman of Wells [Wells-next-the-Sea] Rendezvous under the Command of Lieutenant Thomas Chambers to the Rendezvous at this place on 25 October 1797 to be forwarded to the Nore, and on his arrival demanded of him a Shilling entrance money and also his subsistence for that day and upon his questioning him; whether he had not received either money or provisions from the Tender at Wells [Wells-next-the-Sea] under the Command of Lieutenant Thomas Chambers he declared he was not victualled on board the Tender that day, nor was he offered any provisions when he left her, that he had nor received the one Shilling entrance money on his entering, and only one penny a mile travelling charges from Wells [Wells-next-the-Sea] to Lynn [Kings Lynn].