...A Proclamation. | Whereas the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province . . . (on inlisting soldiers to serve against the French settlements upon the Island of CapeBreton). Dated, January 26, 1744-45.] Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

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817. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Benning Wentworth, Esq; Captain-General and Governour in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, in New-England. A Proclamation. (On the expedition against Cape-Breton.) Dated, February 2, 1744[-45]. [Boston.] † LC

818. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; ...A A Proclamation | For a publick Fast. [February 28.] Dated, February 18, 1744[-45.] Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. Evans, 5434.

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819. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; │. . . | A Proclamation for a general Fast. [April 4.] Dated, March 25, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. 1745.

Evans, 5633.

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820. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; A Proclamation (on inlisting reinforcements for the Louisburg expedition). Dated, June 1, 1745. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

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Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, June 6, 1745. 821. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; ...A Proclamation (on seamen for manning a captured French man of war, the Vigilant, under Peter Warren.) Dated, June 4, 1745. Boston: Printed by J. Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

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822. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; .JA Proclamation For a general Thanksgiving. [July 18.] Dated, July 8, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. 1745. Evans, 5634.

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823. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A Declaration of War against the Eastern and Canada Indians. Dated, August 23, 1745. Boston: Printed by

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By His Excellency

WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Efq; Captain-General and Governour in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

A PROCLAMATION for a general FAST.

ORASMUCH as this Government has with great Expence and Labour raifed and fitted out a large Body of Troops, and equipped a confiderable Naval Force for an Expedition against the French at Cape-Breton, which Forces are now, thro' the Favour of Divine Providence, embarked, and have taken their Departure from this Place; And forafmuch as all our Hopes of Succefs in this important Enterprize ought to be placed in the gracious Prefence of Almighty GOD, to giveWisdom andConduct to our Officers, and Refolution and Courage both to Officers and Soldiers, to preferve our Forces from Sickness and other Disfasters, and govern all Accidents and Occurrences fo as to render them favourable to our Defigus; And as it is our indifpenfible Duty by Prayer and Supplication with penitent Confeffion of our Sins earnestly to implore the gracious Interpofition of divine Providence, that it would pleafe GOD to be on our Side and fight our Battles, and grant us Succefs and Victory;

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have therefore thought fit with the Advice of his Majefty's Council, to appoint Thursday the Fourth Day of April next, to be oblerved throughout this Province as a Day of Fasting and Prayer, hereby calling upon Minifters and People, as well in their private Devotions, as in their publick Allemblies, with a truly humble and contrite Spirit to confefs and bewail the many and great Offences of this People, whereby GOD may be justly provoked to blast all our Deligns in this Enterprize, and bring upon us the most heavy and Wafting Talamities; and to cry mightily to him, that he would in his abundant Mercy through CHRIST, forgive all our Trespalles and make us a religious and reformed People, and thereby prepare us for all temporal Prosperity : And more especially, that they do under a deep Senle of the universal Providence of Almighty 66D, whereby he governs all Caules and Events according to his owa wife and lovereign Picafure, with humble and importunate Prayers beseech him to keep Sin, the accurled Thing that provokes his juft Indignation, out of the Camp and Fleet; and that he would graciously ozder all the Circumstances of this enterprize in Mercy to this People; and that he would profper and fucceed it for the future Safety and prosperity of This and the other British Provinces and Colonies, for His is the Power, the Glory, and the Victory And after all, humbly x dutifully to fubmit this great Affair to his wife and lovereign Determination, that fo in all Refpeas this may be fuch a Falt as GDD has required, and a Day of Atonement and not of further provocation; And that it would also please GOD to giveSuccefs to the Arms of his Bajefty and his Allies in the Operations of the ensuing Summer; And that Peace may be restored both in Europe and in America, And that the universal Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, the Prince of Peace, may prevail in the world, and the whole Earth be filled with His Glory. And all fervile Labour and Recreations are Arialy forbidden on the faid Day.

Given at the Council-Chamber in BOSTON, the Twenty-fifth Day of March, 1745. In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GOD, of GREATBRITAIN, FRANCE and IRELAND, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c.

By His Excellency's Command, with

the Advice of the Council,

J. Willard, Secr.

GOD fave the KING.

W. Shirley.

BOSTON: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the GOVERNOUR and COUNCIL. 1745

No. 819.

By His EXCELLENCY

WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Efq; Captain-General and Governour in Chief, in and over His Majefty's Province of the Maffacbafetts-Bay in New-England.

A PROCLAMATION

HEREAS His Majefty has been gracioufly pleafed to order a Number of Troops, under the Command of the Honourable Lieutenant-General St. Claw, to proceed from Great-Britain to Louisbourg, with a fufficient Convoy of Men of War, and with them a great Part of His Ma jefty's Troops now in Garrifon at Leifbourg, and alfo with fuch Troops as fhall be levied for that Purpose His Majefty's Colonics in North, fic, to attempt the immediate Reaction of Canada; and has fignified His Royal Pkafine to Me, aslo to the Governours of te ver.! Provinces and Colonies of argina, Maryland, Penfin, Ner-Jafs, Ne-York, Cai FlodeIhard and New-Hampfire, by Letters difpatch'd from his Grace the Duke of A-C, The ty Difpofitions should be forthwith made for the railing as many Men within this and the above-mentioned Governments as the Shortness of the Time will admit, for proceeding on the faid Expedition;

AND bereas the Great and General Court of this Province have, with the utmoft Chearfulness and Una nimity, voted to give all neceffary and proper Encouragement for Three Theufand Voluntiers that fhall enf into His Majefly's Service in this Expedition;

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have thought fit, with the Advice of his Majefty's Council, to flue this Proclama tion, in order to make known his Majefty's gracious Intentions and Declarations for th: Encouragement of all able-bodied effective en that are inclined to enlist themselves, into his Service in the faid Expedition together with the further@ncouragement which is offered by this Government, c. That the fard Bolunteers will be under fuch Officers as hall appoint, That they will be immediately entitled to his Majesty's Day, the DF: ficers from the Time they hall engage in his afety's service, and the Soldiers from the refpedive Days on which they shall be enlifted, That if probation cannot be made of Arms and Cloathing for them, by reafon of the hostnefs of the Time, a reasonable Allowance will be made them in oney for the fame, That thep fhall be entitled to a share of the 2300ty that shall be taken from the Enemy, and thall be feat back to their feberal habitatt ons, when this service shall be over, unless any of them thall delire to feetle elsewhere.

AND for the further Encouragement of all Voluntiers that fall engage in this Service, It is provided, That they shall receive Thirty Pounds in Bills of Credit of the old eno, as a Bounty, as alfo for rach an a good Blanket, and a Bed for every two Men the faid Bounty to be paid upon their Enlistment, and the Blankets and Beds at the Eime of their embarkation, o: pro ceeding on the faid Expedition: And that all fuch Moluntiers as fhall proceed on this expe Dition, thall be exempted from all Imprefles for to Dears after their Beturn.

BOSTON: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the GovERNOUR and COUNCIL.

No. 844.

John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

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Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, August 29, 1745. 824. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ..A Proclamation for Encouragement to Volunteers to prosecute the War against the Indian Enemy. Dated, August 23, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the governour and Council.

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Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, August 29, 1745. Evans, 5635.

825. [Royal arms.] By the Honorable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ...A Proclamation for a publick Fast. [September 19.] Dated, September 6, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

Evans, 5636.

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826. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; │. A Proclamation. (On despatching to Cape Breton those who had inlisted and received the bounty.) Dated, October 11, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

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Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, October 17, 1745. 827. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; A Proclamation. (On disorders created by officers and seamen from British ships.) Dated, November 22, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council.

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Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, November 28, 1745. 828. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; .A Proclamation for a general | Thanksgiving. [December 5.] Dated, November 25, 1745. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. Evans, 5637.

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829. The following is a perfect List of the Establishment of Officers and Men in the Expedition against | Louisburg, pass'd the Great and General Court, in their Session in March 1744. [Also] The following further Resolve pass'd the Great and | General Court or Assembly, Sept. 26, 1745.

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830. Boston, February 3. 1745, | Sir, | Having received a Commission from Her Majesty for raising a Regiment | forthwith for the Defence and Service of Cape-Breton,.

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831. Instructions For Masters of Transports, Captains and commanding Officers of military Companies and Commissaries, that are or shall be employed in His Majesty's Service in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Dated, March 13, 1744[-45.]

From an auction catalogue.

832. [Royal arms.] Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, ss. William Foye, Esq. Treasurer, etc. (Tax warrant.) Dated July 12, 1745. EI. BPL. AAS

833. New England Bravery. [Cut.] Being a full and true Account of the taking of the City of Louisbourg, by the NewEngland Forces under the Command of the gallant General | Pepperell, on the 17th of June, 1745. Tune of, chivey chase. Sold at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, Boston. † PC

The same cut is used on "Two favorite Songs made on the Evacuation of the Town of Boston, by the British Troops, on the 17th of March, 1776." 834. Waste Paper, printed or plain, to be sold by the Ream or Quire, by the Publisher of this Paper.

Advertisement in Fleet's Boston Evening-Post, October 21, 1745.

BOSTON, TOWN.

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835. Boston ss. | At a Meeting of the Select-Men February 21, 1746. (On the small-pox, and republishing the act of the general Court published January 17, 1742, "to prevent the spreading of the Small-Pox and other infectious Sickness, and to prevent the concealing of the same.”

836. Tax notice.

HARVARD COLLEGE.

837. Quaestiones.

838. Theses.

Evans, 5786.

MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, PROVINCE.

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839. An Act | Passed by the Great and General Court . . . | An Act more effectually to prevent profane Cursing and Swearing. (Published, February 13, 1745.) Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, by Order of the Governour, Council and House of Representatives. 1746.

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840. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; ...A Proclamation. On deserters from Castle William.