standing such offender be in our actual Service and in Our Pay on . Board any such Our Shipps of Warr or other vessells acting by imediate Comission or Warrant from our Commissioners for Executing the Office of Our High Admirall or from our High Admirall as aforesaid so as he shall not receive any Protection for the avoyding of Justice for such Offences Comitted on Shore from any pretence of his being imployed in Our service at sea. And further Our Will & Pleasure is That you shall not at any time hereafter by coulour of any Power or authority hereby Granted or menconed to be granted take upon you to give grant or Dispose of any Office or place within our said Province and Territories which now is or shall be granted under the Great Seale of England any further than that you may upon the vacancy of any such office or Suspencon of any officer by you put in any person to officiate in the Interval untill the said Place be disposed of by Us Our Heirs or Successors under the Great Seale of England or that our Direccons be otherwise given therein And we do hereby require and Command all Officers and Ministers Civill and Military and all other the Inhabitants of Our said Province and Territory to be obedient aiding and assisting unto you the said Joseph Dudley in the Execucon of this Our Comission and of the Powers and Authorities therein contained and upon your Death or Absence out of our said Province and Territories to our Lieutenant Governor of our said Province and upon such your Death or Absence and the Death or Absence of our said Lieutenant Govern' to our Councill of our said Province and Territory for the time being to whome Wee do by these Presents give and Grant all and singular the Powers & Authorities hereby Granted unto you to be by him or them respectively exercised and enjoyed untill the returne of you our Governor or of our Lieutenant Governor or the Arrival or Constitucion of such other Governour as shall be thereupon Comissionated and appointed by Us And Our Will and Pleasure is that you the said Joseph Dudley shall and may hold execute and enjoy the Office and place of Our Captaine General and Governour in Cheif in and over our said Province and Territories of the Massachusets Bay in New England with all and singular the Powers and Authorities hereby granted unto you for and dureing our Will and Pleasure. And whereas there are diverse Colonies adioyning to our Province of the Massachusets Bay for the Defence and Security Whereof it is

requisite that due care be taken in the time of Warr Wee have therefore thought it further necessarye for Our Service and for the better protection and Security of our subjects Inhabiting those parts to Constitute and appoint And Wee do by these Presents Constitute and Appoint you the said Joseph Dudley to be Our Captaine Generall and Comander in Cheif of the Militia and of all the Forces by Sea and Land within our Colonies of Rhode Island and Providence Plantacon and the Narraganset Country or King's Province and of all our Forts and Places of Strength within the same. And for the better Ordering Governing and Ruleing our said Militia and all our Forces Forts and Places of Strength within our said Colonies of Rhode Island and Providence Plantacon and the Narraganset Countrey or King's Province Wee doe hereby give and Grant unto you the said Joseph Dudley and in your absence to our Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Cheif of Our Province of Massachusets Bay, all and every the like Powers as in these presents are before Granted and Recited for the Ruling Governing and Ordering Our Militia and all our Forces Forts and Places of Strength within Our Province of the Massachusets Bay to be exer- • cised by you the said Joseph Dudley and in your absence from our Territory and Dominion of New England by our said Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Cheif of our said Province of the Massachusets Bay for the time being within our said Colonies of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation and the Narraganset Countrey or King's Province for and dureing our Pleasure. In Witness &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster the thirteenth day of February

-Public Record Office, Patent Roll, 14 William III, No. 2.

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