Beacons watched.
Recusants retrained.
Arms and horses to be sequestered out of their custody.
Powder to be provided both for the store of the counties and the towns corporate.
The ports to be better looked into for passengers by special letters to some special gentlemen adjoining to the ports, to join with the officers of the ports.
The ministers of the French and Dutch churches to be written unto to know what strangers be within and about London that be not of their churches, or repair to their parish churches.
What direction is fit to be given to the ports for preservation of the mapping in the several harbours.
There is order already taken for men to repair to the Isle of Wight, and likewife an increase of the ward at Plymouth.
The like order to be taken for the supplies that are to repair to Portsmouth.
In anno 88 there was special order given for the defence of the Isle of Thanet.
Sheerness especially to be considered of.
What places on the sea coast are fit to be intrenched.
What places in the maritime counties are most subject to danger.
Birch MS. 4122, f. 79.
A Paper of Mr. Waad concerning the defence of the Kingdom against Invasions.
Considering Right Hon. the dangerous estate wherein we are fallen through these long times of peace and rest, whereby we are generally grown to the untowardliness in martial actions, as, in mysimple
