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My Lord I have the Kings instructions to put His Royal Highness Prince William under your Lordships care & directions during the next campaign, to send with him a Lieutenant, as Mr Majendie will not be able to accompany his royal Highness, also to inform you of the plan His Majesty first laid down, which was that His son should be educated in His profession, as much like the sons of Gentlemen as His situation would allow, without court and without any parade, or the usual attendance upon Princes This has been constantly attended to, tho in some instances broken throw, since I have been in this country In the beginning I found it necesary to fix some rules, from which I determined not to depart, and the most of which I should recommend strongly to your Lordships to adhere to. I made it my rule never to dine or lay out of the ships, without His Royal Highness, and it was a rule that His Royal Highness should not go out of this ship without me. That He should receive no visits, and never be sent for, but to the commander in chief, nor dine abroad, but with the flag officers of the fleet, or the commending officer on shore. When any officer His royal Highness had not seen, was in the fleet, I always invited him to dinner, & introduced him before we sat down. It was a rule that he should employ his mornings in studying mathematics [[unclear]] till noon, when His Royal Highness, with all the young people in the ship went thro, their exercise - that he should every day keep up his Logbook - that he should wear the same dress as the midshipmen, and that he should not on any account go off the deck in his watch, and that he should not frequent the washroom - these were Rt Honble- Lrd Hood