HIS
MAJESTY'S
MOST GRACIOUS
LETTER
To His Government of the MASSATHUSETS COLONY in NEW-ENGLAND.
WILLIAM R.
Truſty and well-beloved, WEE Greet you well.
WHEREAS WEE are informed by ſeveral Addreſſes from Our Colony of the Maſſachuſets Bay, and particularly by the Addreſs coming to Us in the Name of The Governour and Council and Convention of the Repreſentatives of the People of Our ſaid Colony, That they had moſt joyfully received the Notice of Our happy Acceſſion to the Throne of theſe Kingdoms, and cauſed the Proclamation thereof to be iſſued throughout Our ſaid TERRITORY; WEE have thereof thought fit hereby to ſignify Our Royal Approbation of the ſame, and Gracious Acceptance of your Readineſs in performing what was neceſſary on your parts for the Preſervation of the Peace and Quiet of Our ſaid COLONY.
And Whereas you give Us to understand that you have taken upon you the present Care of the Government until you should receive Our Orders therein, WEE do hereby Authorize and Impower you to Continue in Our Name your Care in the Administration thereof and Preservation of the Peace, until WEE shall have taken such Resolutions, and given ſuch Directions for the more orderly Settlement of the ſaid GOVERNMENT as ſhall moſt conduce to Our Service and the Security and Satisfaction of Our Subjects within that Our Colony. And ſo WE bid you Fare-well.
Given at Our Court at White-Hall the 12th day Auguſt 1689 in the firſt year of Our Reign.
By His Majeſty's Command,
Shrewsbury.
[Locus Sigilli.]
Publiſhed by Order of the Governour & Council & Repreſentatives, for the Satisfaction of His Majeſties good Subjects in New-England.
Printed at Boſton in New-England, by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris.
Anno Domini MDCLXXXIX
