SAMUEL SHUTE’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COLONIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

    13 June, 1716

    LITERÆ PATENTES CONCESSÆ SAMUELI SHUTE ARMIGERO GUBERNATORI COLONIARUM DE NEW HAMPSHIRE ET MASSACHUSETS BAY IN AMERICA PRO OFFICIO VICE-ADMIRALLI DICTARUM COLONIARUM ET TERRITORIORUM EISDEM DEPENDENTIUM SUNT EJUSDEM TENORIS LITTERARUM PATENTIUM CONCESSARUM ROBERTO LOWTHER ARMIGERO FOL. 161, SALVIS CLAUSULIS INFRASCRIPTIS181

    1. 1. Dilecto Nobis Samueli Shute Armigero Gubernatori Nostro Coloniarum Nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America.
    2. 2. Coloniarum Nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America predicta et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
    3. 3. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    4. 4. Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
    5. 5. Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    6. 6. Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium predictorum.
    7. 7. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    8. 8. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    9. 9. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    10. 10. Dictas Colonias nostras de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
    11. 11. Colonias nostras de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
    12. 12. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    13. 13. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    14. 14. Colonias nostras de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
    15. 15. Dictas Colonias nostras de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
    16. 16. Samueli Shute Armigero Gubernatori Nostro Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America predicta.
    17. 17. Colonias nostras de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
    18. 18. Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
    19. 19. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    20. 20. Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
    21. 21. Samuelem Shute Armigerum Gubernatorem nostrum predictum.
    22. 22. Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    23. 23. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    24. 24. Samuel Shute armiger Gubernator noster antedictus
    25. 25. Samueli Shute armigero Gubernatori nostro Coloniarum Nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America predicta.
    26. 26. Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
    27. 27. decimo tertio Junii 1716to
    28. 28. Secundo.

    Royal Courts of Justice, Admiralty Registry, Muniment Books, Vol. 6, p. 192b.