My Lords,

The King's Assent having been this Day given to "an Act of Parliament to empower His Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy" and there being a Clause which makes it "lawfull for His Majesty by Warrant under His Sign Manual to appoint one or more Place or Places of Confinement within the Realm for the Custody of such Prisoners," I am to desire that your Lordships will Name and describe to me for His Majesty's Information such Place or Places of Confinement as you think most expedient to be appointed in the Manner and for the purpose aforesaid, instead of the Common Goals. I am &c.