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1 Regni Regis et Regince Guilielmi et Marias Anglice, &c. 

 ' Primo. 



Pajl in Council, S. Bradftreet, GOV. 



Atteji Ifaac Addington, Seer.* [58] 



By the Commifjioners of the Colonies of the Maffachufetts, 

 Plymouth and Connecticut, for managing the prefent 

 War againft the Common Enemy. 



i JJWSttUCttOUSi for Major Benjamin Church Commander 

 ' in Chief of the Plymouth Forces, with others of the 

 ' Maffachufetts put under his Command. 

 * IN Purfuance of the Commiffion given you for their 

 J- ' Majefty's Service in the prefent Expedition againft the 

 ' Common Indian Enemy, their Aidors and Abettors; re- 

 ' pofing confidence in your Wifdom, Prudence and Fi- 

 ' delity in the truft committed to you, for the honour of 

 ' God, good of His People, and the fecurity of the Intereft 

 ' of Chrift in His Churches, expecting and praying that in 

 £ your dependance upon Him, you may be helped & 

 ' affifted with all that Grace and Wifdom which is requi- 

 ' lite for carrying you on with Succefs in this difficult Ser- 

 ' vice; and tho' much is and muft be left to your difcretion 

 ' as Providence and opportunity may prefent from time to 

 ' time in places of attendence : Yet the following Inftruc- 

 ' tions are commended unto your obfervation, and to be 



21 Ifaac Addington, only fon of Ifaac, Council, and Secretary, in which office 



of Bofton, born 22 Jan., 1645 ; was bred he continued many years. He was 



for a furgeon, but was chofen Deputy afterward Judge. He died 19 Mar., 



1685, and next year Affiftant. Under 1715, est. 70. [Allen's Biog. DieS. 



the new Charter, he was one of the 14.] 



