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' Arms, both Inferiour Officers & Souldiers, keeping them 

 ' in good Order & Difcipline, Commanding them to Obey 

 'you as their Major: And diligently to intend the faid 

 4 Service, for the profecuting, purfuing, killing and deftroy- 

 4 ing of the faid Common Enemy. And your felf to ob- 

 4 ferve and follow fuch Orders & Directions as you fhall 

 4 from time to time Receive from my Self, according to 

 ' the Rules & Difcipline of War, purfuant to the Truft 

 4 repofed in you for their Majefty's Service. Given under 

 1 my Hand and Seal at BoJIon, the Twenty-fifth day of 

 4 July 1692. In the Fourth Year of the Reign of our 

 4 Soveraign Lord & Lady William and Mary, by the 

 ' Grace of GOD King & Queen of England, Scotland, 

 ' France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. 



WILLIAM PHIPS. 



By his Excellency's Command, 

 IJaac Addington, Seer. 



Returning home to the County aforefaid, he foon raifed 

 a fufficient Number of Volunteers both Engli/Ii & Indians 

 and Officers fuitable to Command them, March'd them 

 down to BoJIon. But there was one thing I would [83] 

 juft mention; which was, That Maj Church being fhort 

 of Money, was fore'd to borrow Six Pounds in Mone} 7 of 

 Lieut. Woodman 172 in Little Compton, to diftribute by a 



John Woodman, of Little Comp- oldeftfon, Thomas, married Woodman's 

 ton, perhaps fon of John, a prominent fecond daughter, Edith. \R.-I. Col. 

 citizen of Newport; Church bought Rec. iii : 106,150,168,185,231; Parti, 

 land of him, 30 OcT:., 1702 ; and his of this work, pp. xxxiii. xliv.] 

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