| ... | 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 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.

Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, June 6, 1745.

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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; ...A 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 raised 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 give Wisdom andConduct to our Officers, and Refolution and Courage both to Officers and Soldiers, to preferve our Forces from Sicknefs and other Difafters, and to govern all Accidents and Occurrences fo as to render them favourable to our Defigns; 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 would pleafe GOD to be on our Side and fight our Battles, and grant us Success and Victory;

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have therefore thought fit with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, to appoint Thursday the Fourth Day of April nert, to be observed throughout this province as a Day of Falting 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 confels and bewail the many and great Offences of this People, whereby GDD may be justly provoked to blast all our Deligns in this Enterprize, and bring upon us the most heavy and wafting Calamities; 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 sense of the universal Providence of Almighty GOD, whereby he governs all Laules and Events according to his owa wile and fovereign Picafure, with humble and importunate Prayers beseech him to keep Sin, the accurled Thing that provokes his juk Indignation, out of the Lamp 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 Colonics, for His is the Power, the Glory, and the Victory And after all, humbly a dutifully to submit this great Affair to his wife and lovereign Determination, that so in all Refpecs this may be such a Falt as GDD has required, and a Day of Atonement and not of further provocation; And that it would also please GOD to giveSuccels to the Arms of his Dajelty and hisAllies in the Operations of the ensuing Summer; And that Peace may be reftozed 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 fridly forbidden on the said 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 EXCELLENCỶ

WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Esq;

Capean-General and Gerumour in Chaf, in and over Ha Majity's Province of the Mafabafetti-Bay in Nes-England

A PROCLAMATION

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; 1. ..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.

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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.

1746

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.

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Evans, 5786.

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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.