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Whereas by Letters from the most honble. his Majesties Privy Councill, the honble. ye Lords Commiss, of Trade and plantations, and ye Right honble. Henry, Earle of Bollingbroke, Secry. of State, and his Exclly. Genll. Nicholson, directing that his most Sacred Majesty, George, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c., be proclaimed in all the proper parts of this Govemtt. and, accordingly, that the same be done with all ye speed possible to the end, an acct. thereof may be returned them. You are hereby directed, with ye Sloop Caulfield, to proceed on the said service, the charge of which is to be born by ye Crown of Great Britain; and you are, at the Ports of Mines, Shekenecto, River St. Johns, Pasmacody, Penobscot, in ye Collony, to proclaim his Majesty King George in ye best manner You can; allsoe, ye proclamation for continuing officers in post. You are likewise to tender the oaths of Allegiance to ye french Inhabitants, with such English as you shall find, and administer ye same to such as are willing to take them in ye form prescribed, and will be Loyall and Good Subjects to his most Sacred Majesty, George, King of Great Britain, &c.
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