FRANCIS BERNARD’S SECOND COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

18 May, 1761

George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland king Defender of the Faith. To our beloved Francis Bernard Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief of our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England Greeting

we confiding very much in your fidelity care and circumspection in this behalf, do by these presents which are to continue during our Pleasure only ordain constitute and depute you the said Francis Bernard Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief aforesaid Our Vice Admiral, Commissary and deputy in the Office of Vice Admiralty in our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories thereon depending and in the Maritime parts of the same and thereto Adjoining whatsoever — And the remainder of the Commission is of the same Tenor as that recorded in this Book from page 185 to page 193 Concluding as follows192 — Given at London in the high Court of Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof the eighteenth day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty one, And of Our Reign the first.

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The Great Seal of the high Court of Admiralty Appending

Examined

A Oliver Sec^y

— Crown Commissions, 1628–1663, p. 207.

— Crown Commissions, 1628–1663, pp. 207–208.

FRANCIS BERNARD’S FIRST COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

12 February, 1760

George the Second by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland king Defender of the Faith. To our beloved Francis Bernard Escp our Captain General and Governor in Cheif of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England Greeting:

We confiding very much in your Fidelity, Care and Circumspection in this Behalf Do by these presents, which are to continue during our Pleasure only, Ordain, constitute and depute you the said Francis Bernard Esqȝ our Captain General & Governor in Cheif aforesaid, Our Vice Admiral, Commissary and Deputy in the Office of Vice Admiralty in Our Province of of189 Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territory’s thereon depending (in the room of Thomas Pownall Esqȝ appointed Vice Admiral of South Carolina in America) and Territories thereon depending and in the maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoining whatsoever, with power of taking and receiving all and every the Fees, Profits, Advantages, Emoluments, Commodity’s and Appurtenances whatsoever due and belonging to the said Office of Vice Admiral Commissary & Deputy and in our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory depending thereon & maritime parts of the same and adjoining to them whatsoever according to the Ordinances and Statutes of Our high Court of Admiralty of England. And We do hereby commit and grant unto you the aforesaid Francis Bernard Escqȝ our Power and Authority in and throughout our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforementioned and Territory’s thereof and maritime parts whatsoever adjacent thereto and also throughout all and every the Sea Shores, Publick Streams, Ports, Fresh Waters, Rivers, Creeks and Arms as well of the Sea as of the Rivers and Coasts whatsoever of Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s dependant thereon and maritime Parts whatsoever of the same and thereto adjacent as well within Liberty’s and Franchises as without. To take Cognizance of and proceed in all causes Civil and maritime and in Complaints, Contracts, Offences or suspected Offences Crimes Pleas, Debts, Exchanges, Accounts, Charter parties, Agreements, Suits, Trespasses, Injury’s Extortions and Demands and Businesses Civil and maritime whatsoever commenced or to be commenced between merchants or between Owners and Proprietors of Ships and other Vessells and merchants or others whomsoever with such Owners and Proprietors of Ships and all other Vessells whatsoever employed or used within the maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s depending on the Same or between any other Persons whomsoever had made, began or contracted for any Matter Thing or Business whatsoever done or to be done within our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid together with all and singular their Incidents, Emergences Dependances annexed and connexed Causes whatsoever wheresoever or howsoever, and such Causes, Complaints, Contracts and other the Premises above-said or any of them, Which may happen to arise, be contracted, had or done to hear & determine according to the rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances and Customs antiently Observed, And moreover in all and singular Complaints, Contracts, Agreements Causes Business Civil and Maritime to be performed beyond the Sea or contracted there, howsoever arising or hapning. And also in all and singular other Causes and matters which in any manner whatsoever touch or any Way concern or anciently have or do or ought to belong unto the maritime Jurisdiction of Our aforesaid Vice Admiralty in our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereon depending and maritime Parts thereof and to the same adjoining whatsoever, and generally in all and singular other Causes, Suits, Crimes, offences, Excesses Injury’s Complaints misdeameanours or suspected misdemeanours Trespasses, Regratings Forestallings and Maritime Businesses whatsoever throughout the Places aforesaid within the maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territory’s thereon depending by Sea or Water or the Banks or Shores of the Same howsoever done, committed perpetrated or hapning, and also to inquire by the Oath of honest and lawful men of our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s dependant thereon and maritime parts of the same and and190 adjoining to them whatsoever dwelling both within Libertys and Franchises and without as well of all and singular such matters and Things which of right and by the Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs antiently observed were wont and ought to be inquired after, as of Wreck of the Sea, and of all and singular the Goods and Chattels of whatsoever Traitors, Pirates, manslayors or Felons howsoever offending within the maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforementioned and Territory’s thereunto belonging and of the Goods, Chattels and Debts of all and singular their Maintainers, accessaries, Counsellors, abettors or assistants whomsoever and also of the Goods, Debts, and Chattels of whatsoever other Person or Persons Felons of themselves by what means or howsoever coming to their Death within our aforesaid maritime Jurisdiction wheresoever any such Goods Debts and Chattels or any part thereof by Sea, Water or Land in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereon dependant and maritime parts of the Same and thereto adjacent whatsoever as well within Liberty’s and Franchises as without have been or shall be found forfieted or to be forfieted or in being, And Moreover as well of the Goods, Debts and Chattels of whatsoever other Traitors, Felons and Manslayers wheresoever offending, and of the Goods Debts and Chattels of their maintainers, accessary’s, Counsellors, Abettors or assistants as of the Goods Debts and Chattels of all Fugitives, Persons convicted, attained, condemned, out lawed or howsoever put or to be put in Exigent for Treason, Felony, manslaughter or murther or any other offence or Crime whatsoever & also concerning Goods waving Flotzon Jetzon, Lagon, Shares & Treasurer191 found or to be found Deodands and of the Goods of all Others whatsoever taken or to betaken as Derelict or by chance found or to be found or howsoever due or to be due and of all other Casualty’s as well in upon or by the Sea and Shores, Creeks or Coasts of the Sea or maritime parts, as in upon or by all Fresh Waters, Ports Publick Streams, Rivers or Creeks, or Places overflown whatsoever within the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea or high Water or upon the Shores or Banks of any of the Same within Our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid howsoever whensoever or by what means soever arising, hapning or proceeding or wheresoever such Goods, Debts and Chattels or other the Premises or any parcel thereof may or shall happen to be met with or found within Our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid, and also concerning ancorage, Lastage and Ballast of Ships and of Fishes Royal, namely, Sturgeons, Whales, Porpusses, Dolphins, Riggs & Grampusses and generally of all other Fishes whatsoever which are of a great or very large Bulk or Fatness anciently by right or Custom or any Way appertaining or belonging to us And to ask, require levy take, collect, receive and obtain and to the use of us and of the Office of Our high Admiral of Great Britain aforesaid for the time being to keep & preserve the said Wreck of the Sea Goods Debts and Chattels and all and singular other the premises together with all and all manner of Fines, mulcts Issues Forfeitures Amerciaments, Bansoms and Becognizances, whatsoever forfeited or to be forfeited and pecuniary punishments for Trespasses Crimes, Injury’s Extortions Contempts and other misdemeanours whatsoever howsoever imposed or inflicted or to be imposed or inflicted for any matter cause or thing whatsoever in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoyning in any Court of Our Admiralty there held or to be held, presented or to be presented, assessed brought, forfeited or adjudged. And also all amerciements Issues, Fines Perquisites, Mulcts & pecuniary punishments whatsoever, and Forfeitures of all manner of Becognizances before you or your Lieutenant, Deputy or Deputy’s in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever hapning or imposed, or to be imposed or inflicted, or by any means assessed, presented forfeited or adjudged or howsoever by reason of the Premises due or to be due in that Behalf to Us our Heirs and Successors and further to take all manner of Becognizances, Cautions, Obligations and Stipulations as well to our use as at the Instance of any Party’s for agreements & Debts and other Causes whatsoever and to put the same in Execution and to cause & command them to be executed, and also to arrest and command to be arrested according to the Civil and maritime Laws and antient Customs of Our said Court all Ships, Persons, Things Goods Wares and Merchandizes for the premises and every of them and for other Causes whatsoever concerning the same, wheresoever they shall be met with or found throughout our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and maritime parts thereof and thereto adjoining within Liberty’s and Franchises or without and likewise for all other Agreements, Causes or Debts howsoever contracted or arising so that the Goods or Persons of the Debtors may be found within Our Jurisdiction aforesaid and to hear examine, discuss and finally determine the same with their Emergences, Dependences Incidents annexed and connexed Causes and Businesses whatsoever together with all other Causes, Civil and maritime and Complaints, Contracts and all and every the respective Premises whatsoever above expressed according to the Laws and Customs aforesaid and by all other lawful Ways, means and methods according to the best of your Skill and Knowledge, and to compel all manner of persons in that Behalf as the Case shall require to appear and to answer with power of using any temporal Coertion and of inflicting any other Penalty or mulct according to the Laws and Customs aforesaid and to do and administer Justice according to the right Order and Course of the Law, summarily and plainly looking into the truth of the Fact, and to Fine, correct Punish Chastize and reform & imprison & cause and command to be imprisoned in any Goals being within Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territory’s thereunto belonging the Party’s guilty and the Contemners of the Law and Jurisdiction of Our Admiralty aforesaid and Violaters usurpers, Delinquents and contumacious absenters, masters of Ships, mariners, Bowers, Fishermen Shipwrights and other Workmen & Artificers whatsoever exercising any Kind of maritime affairs according to the Eights Statutes, Laws Ordinances and Customs antiently observed, and to deliver and absolutely discharge and cause and command to be discharged whatsoever Persons imprisoned in such Cases who are to be delivered, and to preserve and cause to be preserved, the Publick Streams, Ports, Rivers Fresh Waters and Creeks whatsoever within Our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid in what place soever they be in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever as well for the Preservation of Our Navy Royal and of the Fleets and Vessells of Our Kingdoms and Dominions aforesaid as of whatsoever Fishes increasing in the Rivers and Places aforesaid And also to keep and cause to be executed and kept in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and Maritime parts thereof and thereto adjacent whatsoever the Eights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances and Customs antiently observed and to do, exercise, expedite and execute all and singular other Things in the Premises, and Every of them as they by right and according to Laws and Statutes Ordinances and Customs aforesaid should be done And moreover to reform nets too close and other unlawful Engines or Instruments whatsoever for the Catching of Fishes wheresoever by Sea or Publick Streams Ports, Rivers, Fresh Waters or Creeks whatsoever throughout Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territory’s dependant thereon & maritime parts of the same & thereto adjacent used or exercised by Water within Our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid wheresoever, and to punish and correct the Exercises and Occupiers thereof according to the Statutes, Laws Ordinances and Customs aforesaid, And to pronounce, promulge & interpose all manner of Sentences, & Decrees and to put the same in Execution with Cognizance and Jurisdiction of Whatsoever other Causes Civil & maritime which relate to the Sea or which any manner of Ways respect or concern the Sea or Passage over the same or Naval or Maritime Voyages or our said maritime Jurisdiction or the Places or Limits of Our said Admiralty & Cognizance aforementioned and all other things done or to be done with Power also to proceed in the same according to the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances and Customs aforesaid anciently used, as well of meer Office mixt or promoted, as at the Instance of any party as the Case shall require and seem convenient and likewise with Cognizance & Decision of Wreck of the Sea great or small and of the Death, Drowning & Veiw of dead Body’s of all Persons, howsoever killed or drowned or murthered, or which shall happen to be killed drowned or murthered or by any other means come to their Death in the Sea or publick Streams, Ports, Fresh Waters or Creeks whatsoever within the Flowing of the Sea and high Water mark throughout our aforesaid Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and maritime Parts of the same and thereto adjacent or elsewhere within our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid together with the Cognizance of Mayhem in the aforesaid Places within Our maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid and Flowing of the Sea and water there hapning with power also of punishing all Delinquents in that Kind according to the Exigences of the Law and Customs aforesaid And to do, exercise, expedite and execute all and singular other Things which in and about the Premises only shall be necessary or thought meet according to the rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances and Customs aforesaid, with power of Deputing and surrogating in your place for the Premises one or more Deputy or Deputy’s as often as you shall think fit, and also with power from Time to Time of naming appointing, ordaining, assigning, making and constituting whatsoever other necessary, fit, and convenient Officers and ministers under you for the said Office and execution thereof in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territory’s thereunto belonging and Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever (saving always the right of Our high Court of Admiralty of England and also the Judge and Register of the said Court from whom or either of Them it is not Our Intention in any Thing to derogate by these Presents, and saving to every one who shall be wronged or greived by any Definitive Sentence or Interlocutory Decree Which shall be given in the Vice Admiralty Court of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid & Territory’s thereunto belonging, the right of appealing to Our aforesaid high Court of Admiralty of England) Provided nevertheless and under this express Condition that if you the aforesaid Francis Bernard our Captain General & Governor in Cheif aforesaid shall not yearly, (to wit) at the End of every year between the Feasts of Saint Michael the Arch Angel and All Saints duly certify & cause effectually to be certified (if you shall be thereunto required) to Us and Our Lieutenant, official principal and Commissary General and Special and Judge and president of the high Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid all that which from time to time by Virtue of these presents, you shall do execute, collect or receive in the Premises or any of them together with your full and faithful account thereupon to be made in an authentick Form and Sealed with the Seal of Our Office remaining in your Custody, that from thence and after default therein these Our Letters Patent of the Office of Vice Admiral aforesaid as above granted shall be null & Void and of no Force or effect: Further We do in Our name command all and singular our Governors, Justices Mayors, Sheriffs, Captains, Marshalls, Bailiffs, Keepers of all Our Gaols and Prisons, Constables and all other Our Officers and faithful & leige Subjects whatsoever and every of them as well within Libertys and Franchises as without that in and about the Execution of the Premises and every of them, They be aiding favouring assisting submissive and yeild obedience in all Things as is fitting to you the aforesaid Francis Bernard Esq^r Our Captain General & Gov^r in Cheif of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and to your Deputy whomsoever & to all other officers (by you appointed or to be appointed) of Our said Vice admiralty in Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territory’s thereunto belonging and maritime Parts of the same & thereto adjoining under Pain of the Law & the Peril which will fall thereon Given at London in the high Court of Our Admiralty of England foresaid under the Great Seal thereof the twelfth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Sixty & of Our Reign the Thirty third

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The Great Seal of the high Court of Admiralty appending

— Crown Commissions, 1628–1663, pp. 185–193.

THOMAS POWNALL’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

28 February, 1757

George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland king Defender of the Faith To our beloved Thomas Pownall Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England Greeting

We confiding very much in your Fidelity care and circumspection in this behalf do by these Presents which are to continue during Our Pleasure only ordain constitute and depute You the said Thomas Pownall Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief aforesaid Our Vice Admiral Commissary and Deputy in the office of Vice Admiralty in Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories thereon depending and in the Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoining whatsoever with power of taking and receiving all and every the Fees Profits Advantages Emoluments Commodities & Appurtenances whatsoever due and belonging to the said Office of Vice Admiral Commissary and deputy in our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories dependant thereon and Maritime parts of the same and adjoining to them whatsoever according to the Ordinances and Statutes of Our High Court of Admiralty of England And We do hereby commit and Grant unto You the aforesaid Thomas Pownall Esquire Our Power and authority in and throughout Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforementioned and Territories thereof and Maritime Parts whatsoever adjacent thereto and also throughout all and every the Sea Shores publick Streams ports fresh Waters, Rivers Creeks and Arms as well of the Sea as of the Rivers and Coasts whatsoever of Our said Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories dependant thereon and Maritime parts whatsoever of the same and thereto adjacent, as well within Liberties and Franchises as without, to take cognizance of and proceed in all causes Civil and Maritime and in Complaints Contracts Offences or suspected Offences, Crimes Pleas, Debts Exchanges, Accounts Charter Parties, Agreements Suits Trespasses Injuries Extortions and Demands and Businesses Civil and Maritime whatsoever commenced or to be commenced between Merchants or betwee185 Owners and Proprietors of Ships and other Vessels and Merchants or others whomsoever with such Owners and Proprietors of Ships and all other Vessels whatsoever imployed or used within the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories depending on the same or between any other Person whomsoever, had made began or contracted for any matter thing cause or business whatsoever done or to be done within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid together with all and singular their incidents Emergencies dependencies annexed and connexed Causes whatsoever, wheresoever or howsoever and such Causes Complaints Contracts and other the Premises aforesaid or any of them which may happen to arise, be contracted had or done To hear and determine according to the Rights Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs antiently observed And Moreover in all and singular Complaints Contracts Agreements Causes and Businesses Civil and Maritime to be performed beyond the Sea or contracted there, howsoever arising or happening, and also in all and singular other Causes and Matters which in any manner whatsoever touch or any way concern or antiently have and do or ought to belong unto the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our aforesaid Vice Admiralty in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereon depending and maritime parts thereof and to the same adjoining whatsoever and generally in all and singular other Causes, Suits, Crimes, Offences, Excesses, Injuries Complaints, Misdemeanors or suspected misdemeanors, Trespasses, Regratings Forestallings and Maritime Businesses whatsoever throughout the Places aforesaid within the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories thereon depending by Sea or Water or the Banks or Shores of the same howsoever done committed perpetrated or happening And also to inquire by the Oath of honest and lawful Men of Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories dependant thereon and Maritime parts of the same and adjoining to them whatsoever dwelling both within Liberties and Franchises and without as well of all and singular such matters and things which of right and by the Statutes Laws Ordinances and customs antiently observed were want186 and ought to be inquired after as of Wreck of the Sea and of all and singular the Goods and Chattels of whatsoever Traitors, Pirates, Manslayors, and Felons howsoever offending within the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforementioned and Territories thereunto belonging and of the Goods Chattles and Debts of all and singular their Maintainers Accessaries Councellors Abettors or Assistants whomsoever And also of the Goods Debts & Chattles of whatsoever Person or Persons Felons of themselves by what means or howsoever coming to their Death within Our aforesaid Maritime Jurisdiction wheresoever any such Goods Debts and Chattles or any parcell thereof by Sea Water or Land in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereon dependant and Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever as well within Liberties and Franchises as without, have been or shall be found forfeited or to be forfeited or in being And Moreover as well of the Goods Debts and Chattles of whatsoever other Traitors Felons and Manslayors wheresoever offending and of the Goods Debts & Chattles of their Maintainers, Accessaries, Councellors Abettors or Assistants as of the Goods Debts and Chattles of all Fugitives Persons convicted attainted condemned outlawed or howsoever put or to be put in Exigent for Treason Felony Manslaughter, Murther, or any other Offence or Crime whatsoever and also concerning Goods waveing Flotzon Jetson Lagon Shares and Treasure found or to be found Deodands and of the Goods of all others whatsoever taken or to be taken as Derelict or by chance found or to be found or howsoever due or to be due and of all other Casualties as well in upon or by the Sea and Shores Creeks or Coasts of the Sea or Maritime parts as in upon or by all fresh Waters, ports publick Streams Rivers or Creeks or Places over flown whatsoever within the Ebbing & Flowing of the Sea or high Water or upon the Shores or Banks of any of the same within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid howsoever, wheresoever, or. by what means soever, arising happening or proceeding or wheresoever such Goods Debts and Chattles or other the premises or any parcel thereof may or shall happen to be met with or found within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid And also concerning Anchorage Lastage and Ballast of Ships, and of Fishes Royal Namely Sturgeons, Whales, Porpusses, Dolphins, Riggs, and Grampusses and generally of all other Fishes whatsoever which are of a great or very large bulk or fatness ancintly by right or custom or any way appertaining or belonging to Us and to ask, require, levy, take, collect, receive and obtain and to the use of us and the Office of Our high Admiral of Great Britain aforesaid for the time being to keep and preserve the said Wreck of the Sea and the Goods Debts & Chattles & all & singular other the Premises together with all and all manner of Fines Mulcts Issues Forfeitures, Amerciaments Ransoms and Cognizances whatsoever forfeited or to be forfeited and pecuniary Punishments for Trespasses, Crimes, Injuries, Extortions, Contempts and other Misdemeanors whatsoever howsoever imposed or inflicted or to be imposed or inflicted for any matter cause or thing whatsoever in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereunto belonging and Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoining in any Court of Our Admiralty there held or to be held presented or to be presented, assessed brought forfeited or adjudged, and also all Amercements Issues Fines Perquisites Mulcts and pecuniary Punishments whatsoever and forfeifures187 of all manner of Recognizances before you or your Lieutenant Deputy or Deputies in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever hapining or imposed or to be imposed or inflicted or by any means assessed, presented, forfeited or adjudged or howsoever by reason of the premises due or to be due in that behalf to Us or Our Heairs and Successors, and further to take all manner of Recognizances Cautions Obligations and Stipulations as well to Our use as at the instance of any parties for agreements or debts and other Causes whatsoever and to put the same in Execution and to cause & command them to be executed, And also to arrest and cause & command to be arrested according to the Civil & Maritime Laws and ancient Customs of Our said Court all Ships, Persons, Things, Goods, Wares and Merchandizes for the Premisses and every of them and for other causes whatsoever concerning the same wheresoever they shall be met with or found throughout Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts thereof and thereto adjoining within Liberties & Franchises or without and likewise for all other agreements Causes or Debts howsoever contracted or arising so that the Goods or persons of the Debtors may be found within Our Jurisdiction aforesaid And to hear examine discuss and finally determine the same with their Emergencies, Dependencies, Incidents annexed & connexed Causes and Businesses whatsoever together with all other Causes Civil and Maritime and Complaints Contracts and all and every the respective Premisses whatsoever above expressed according to the Laws and Customs aforesaid and by all other lawful Ways means & methods according to the best of Your Skill & Knowledge And to compel all manner of persons in that behalf as the Case shall require to appear & to answer with power of using any temporal Coertion and of inflicting any other penalty or Mulct according to the Laws and Customs aforesaid and to do and minister Justice according to the right order & course of the Laws Summarily & plainly looking only into the Truth of the Fact, and to fine correct, punish chastise & reform and imprison and cause & command to be imprisoned in any Goals being within Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories thereunto belonging the parties guilty and the Contemnors of the Law and Jurisdiction of Our Admiralty aforesaid and Violators Userpors, Delinquents and contumacious Absentors, Masters of Ships, Mariners, Bowers, Fishermen, Shipwrights and other Workmen and Artificers whatsoever exercising any kind of maritime affairs according to the Rights, Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs anciently Observed and to deliver and absolutely discharge and cause & command to be discharged whatsoever Persons imprisoned in such Cases who are to be delivered And to preserve and cause to be preserved the publick Streams, ports Rivers Fresh Waters and Creeks whatsoever within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid in what Place soever they be in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereunto belonging & maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever, as well for the preservation of Our Navy Royal and of the Fleets and Vessels of Our Kingdoms and Dominions aforesaid as of whatsoever Fishes increasing in the Rivers and Places aforesaid and also to keep & cause to be executed & kept in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New Eng^d and Territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts thereof & thereto adjacent whatsoever the Rights Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs anciently observed, and to do, exercise, expedite & execute all & singular other things in the premisses and every of them as they by right, and according to the Laws and Statutes Ordinances & Customs aforesaid should be done And Moreover to reform Nets too close, and other lawful Engines or Instruments whatsoever for the Catching of Fishes wheresoever by Sea or publick Streams, Ports, Rivers fresh Waters or Creeks whatsoever throughout Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories dependent thereon and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent used or exercised by Water, within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid wheresoever and to punish and correct the Exercisors and Occupiers thereof according to the Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs aforesaid and to pronounce promulgate and interpose all manner of Sentences and Decrees and to put the same in Execution, with Cognizance and Jurisdiction of whatsoever other causes Civil and Maritime which relates to the Sea or which any manner of Ways respects or concerns the Sea or passage over the same, or Naval or mari time Voyages or Our said Maritime Jurisdiction or the Places or Limits of Our said Admiralty and Cognizance aforementioned and all other things done or to be done, with power also to proceed in the same according to the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances and Customs aforesaid anciently used, as well of meer Office mixt or promoted, as at the instance of any party as the case shall require and seem convenient and likewise with Cognizance and Decision of Wreck of the Sea great or small and of the Death Drowning and View of dead Bodies of all Persons howsoever killed or drowned or murthered or which shall happen to be killed drowned or murthered or by any other means come to their Death in the Sea or publick Streams, ports fresh Waters or Creeks whatsoever within the flowing of the Sea and high Warter188 mark throughout our aforesaid Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereunto belonging and Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent or elsewhere within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid together with the Cognizance of Mahem in the aforesaid places within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid and flowing of the Sea and Water there hapning with power also of punishing all Delinquints in that kind according to the Exigences of the Law and Customs aforesaid and to do exercise expedite and execute all and singular other Things, which in and about the premisses only shall be necessary or thought meet, according to the Rights Statutes Laws Ordinances and Customs aforesaid with power of Deputing & Surrogating in your place for the premisses one or more Deputy or Deputies as often you shall think fit, and also with power from time to time of naming appointing, ordaining, assigning, making and constituting whatsoever other necessary fit and convenient Officers and Ministers under you for the said Office and execution thereof in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjacent whatsoever (saving always) the Right of Our high Court of Admiralty of England and also of the Judge and Register of the said Court, from whom or either of them, it is not Our Intention in any thing to derogate by these presents and saving to every one who shall be wronged or grieved by any definitive Sentence or Interlocutory decree which shall be given in the Vice Admiralty Court of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories thereunto belonging the Right of Appealing to Our aforesaid high Court of Admiralty of England Provided nevertheless and under this express Condition that if you the aforesaid Thomas Pownall Our Captain General and Governor in Chief aforesaid shall not yearly (to wit) at the end of every Year between the Feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and All Saints duly certify and cause to be effectually certified (if you shall be thereunto required) to Us and Our Lieutenant Official principal and Commissary General and Special and Judge & President of the high Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid all that which from time to time by virtue of these Presents you shall do execute collect or receive in the premises or any of them, together with your full & faithfull account thereupon to be made in an Authentick Form and Sealed with the Seal of Our Office remaining in your Custody, that from thence and after default therein these Our Letters patent of the Office of Vice Admiral aforesaid as above granted, shall be null and void and of no force or Effect Further We do in Our Name command all and singular Our Governors, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Captains, Marshals, Bayliffs, Keepers of all Our Goals and Prisons, Constables, & all other Our officers and faithfull and Liege Subjects whatsoever and every of them as well within Liberties and Franchises as without, That in and about the Execution of the premisses and every of them They be aiding, favouring, assisting Submissive and Yield Obedience in all things as is fitting to you the aforesaid Thomas Pownall Our Captain General and Governor in Chief of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and to your Deputy whomsoever and to all other officers by you appointed or to be appointed of Our said Vice Admiralty in our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England aforesaid and Territories thereunto belonging and maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoining under pain of the Law and the peril which will fall thereon Given at London in the high Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof the Twenty eighth day of February in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty seven and of Our Reign the Thirtieth.

SAM^L HILL Register

The Great Seal of the High Court of Admiralty appending.

— Crown Commissions, 1628–1663, pp. 155–160.

WILLIAM SHIRLEY’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

21 August, 1741

George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland king, Defender of the Faith &c. To Our beloved William Shirley Esq^r Our Captain General & Governour in Chief of Our Province of the Massachusetts Bay in America, Greeting;

We confiding very much in your Fidelity, Care & Circumspection in this behalf, do by these Presents which are to continue during Our Pleasure only, ordain constitute & depute you the said William Shirley Esq^r Our Captain General & Governour in Chief aforesaid, Our Vice Admiral, Commissary & Deputy in the Office of Vice Admiralty in Our Province of Massachusetts Bay afores^d and Territories thereon depending & in the Maritime Parts of the same, and thereto adjoining, whatsoever, with Power of taking & receiving all & every the ffees, Profits, Advantages, Emoluments, Commodities & Appurtenances whatsoever, to & belonging to the said Office of Vice, Admiral, Commissary & Deputy in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories dependent thereon, & maritime Parts of the same, and adjoining to them whatsoever, according to the Ordinances & Statutes of Our High Court of Admiralty of England, and we do hereby commit & grant unto you the aforesaid William Shirley Esq^r Our Power & Authority in & throughout Our Province of Massachusetts Bay aforementioned & Territories thereof & maritime parts whatsoever adjacent thereto, & also throughout all & every the Sea Shores, publick Streams, Ports, fresh Waters, Rivers, Creeks & Arms, as well of the Sea, as of the Rivers, & Coasts whatsoever, of our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories dependent thereon, & maritime Parts whatsoever, of the same & thereto adjacent, as well within Liberties, & Franchises, as without, to take Cognizance of, & proceed in all Causes, Civil & Maritime, & in Complaints, Contracts, Offences or suspected Offences, Crimes, Pleas, Debts, Exchanges, Accompts, Charter Parties, Agreements, Suits, Trespasses, Injuries, Extortions & Demands & Businesses Civil & Maritime whatsoever, commenced or to be commenced between Merchants or between Owners & Proprietors of Ships & other Vessels, & Merchants or others whomsoever, with such Owners & Proprietors of Ships & all other Vessels whatsoever employed, or used within the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice Admiralty of Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories depending on the same, or between any other Persons whomsoever, had, made, began or contracted for any matter Thing, Cause or Business whatsoever done or to be done within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid, Together with all & singular their Incidents, Emergencies, Dependancies annexed & connexed Causes whatsoever, wheresoever or howsoeuer, & such Causes, Complaints Contracts & other the Premisses abovesaid, or any of them, which may happen to arise, be contracted, had or done, to hear & determine, according to the Rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs anciently observed, & moreover in all & singular Complaints, Contracts, Agreements, Causes & Businesses Civil & Maritime, to be performed beyond the Sea, or contracted there, howsoever arising or happening, & also in all & singular other Causes & Matters, which in any Manner whatsoever touch or any ways concern, or anciently have & do or ought to belong unto the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our aforesaid Vice-Admiralty in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereon depending, & maritime Parts thereof & to the same adjoining whatsoever, & generally in all & singular other Causes, Suits, Crimes, Offences, Excessees, Injuries, Complaints, Misdemeanors or suspected Misdemeanors, Trespasses, Begratings, Forestallings & maritime Businesses whatsoever throughout the Places aforesaid, within the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice-Admiralty of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay aforesaid & Territories thereon depending, by Sea or water, on the Banks or Shores of the Same, howsoever done, committed, perpetrated or happening, And also to inquire by the Oath of honest & lawful Men of Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories dependent thereon, & maritime Parts of the Same & adjoining to them, whatsoever; dwelling both within Liberties and Franchises & without, as well of all & singular such Matters & Things which of right & by the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs anciently observed, were wont & ought to be inquired after, as of Wreck of the Sea, & of all & singular the Goods & Chattels of whatsoever Traitors, Pyrates, Man Slayers & Felons howsoever, offending within the Maritime Jurisdiction of Our Vice-Admiralty of Our Province of Massachusetts Bay aforementioned & Territories thereunto belonging & of the Goods, Chattels & Debts of all & singular their Maintainors, Accessories, Councellors, Abettors or Assistants whomsoever, & also of the Goods, Debts & Chattels of whatsoever Person or Persons, Felons of themselves, by what means or howsoever coming to their Death within Our aforesaid Maritime Jurisdiction, wheresoever any such Goods, Debts & Chattles or any Parcel thereof by Sea, Water or Land in our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereon dependent, & maritime Parts of the same & thereto adjacent, whatsoever, as well within Liberties & Franchises as without, have been or shall be found forfeited, or to be forfeited, or in being, & Moreover as well of the Goods, Debts & Chattels of whatsoever other Traitors, Felons & Manslayers wheresoever offending, & of the Goods, Debts & Chattels of their Maintainors, Accessories, Councellors, Abettors or Assistants, as of the Goods, Debts & Chattels of all Fugitives, Persons convicted, attainted, condemned, Outlawed or howsoever put or to be put in exigent for Treason, Felony, Manslaughter or Murder, or any other Offence or Crime whatsoever, & also Concerning Goods waving, Flotson, Jetson, Lagon, Shares & Treasure found, or to be found deodands & of the Goods of all others whatsoever taken or to be taken, as derelict or by chance found, or to be found, or howsoever due or to be due, & of all other Casualties as well in, upon or by the Sea, & Shores, Creeks or Coasts of the Sea, or Maritime Parts, as in, upon or by all fresh Waters, Ports, publick Streams, Rivers or Creeks or Places overflown whatsoever, within the Ebbing & Flowing of the Sea, or high Water, or upon the Shores or Banks of any of the same within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid howsoever, whensoever, or by what Means soever arising, happening or proceeding, or wheresoever such Goods, Debts & Chattels or other the Premisses or any Parcel thereof, may or shall happen to be met with, or found within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid, And also Concerning Anchorage, Lastage & Ballast of Ships & of Fishes Royal, namely, Sturgeons, Whales, Porpoises, Dolphins, Riggs & Grampuses, & generally of all other Fishes whatsoever which are of a great or very large Bulk, or Fatness, anciently by right or Custom, or any way appertaining or belonging to Us, & to Ask, require, levy, take, collect, receive & obtain, & to the Use of Us & the Office of Our High Admiral of Great Britain aforesaid for the Time being, to keep & preserve the s^d wreck of the Sea, & the Goods, Debts & Chattels & all & singular, other the Premisses together with all & all manner of Fines, Mulcts, Issues, Forfeitures, Amerciaments, Ransomes, & Recognizances whatsoever forfeited or to be forfeited, & pecuniary Punishments for Trespasses, Crimes, Injuries, Extortions, Contempts & other Misdemeanours whatsoever, howsoever imposed or inflicted or to be imposed or inflicted for any Matter, Cause or Thing whatsoever, in our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereunto belonging, & Maritime Parts of the same, & thereto adjoining, in any Court of Our Admiralty there held or to be held, presented or to be presented, assessed, brought, forfeited or adjudged & also all Amerciaments, Issues, Fines, Perquisites, Mulcts & pecuniary Punishments whatsoever, & Forfietures of all manner of Recognizances, before you, or your Lieutenant, Deputy or Deputies in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereunto belonging & Maritime Parts of the same & thereto adjacent, whatsoever, happening or imposed or to be imposed or inflicted, or by any Means assessed, presented, forfeited or adjudged, or howsoever by reason of the Premisses due or to be due in that behalf, to Us or Our heirs or Successors, & further to take all manner of Recognizances, Cautions, Obligations & Stipulations, as well to our Use, as at the Instance of any Parties for Agreements or Debts, & other Causes whatsoever, & to put the same in Execution, & to cause & command them to be executed, & also to arrest & cause & command to be Arrested, According to the several Maritime Laws & ancient Customs of Our said Court, all Ships, Persons, Things, Goods, Wares & Merchandizes for the Premisses & every of them, & for other Causes whatsoever, concerning the same, wheresoever they shall be met with, or found throughout our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereunto belonging, & Maritime parts thereof & thereto adjoining within Liberties & Franchises, or without, & likewise for all other Agreements, Causes or Debts howsoever contracted or arising, so that the Goods or Persons of the Debtors may be found within Our Jurisdiction aforesaid, & to hear, examine, discuss & finally determine the same with their Emergencies, Dependancies, Incidents, annexed & connexed Causes & Businesses whatsoever, together with all other Causes Civil & Maritime, & Complaints Contracts & all & every the respective Premisses whatsoever above expressed according to the Laws & Customs aforesaid, & by all other lawful ways, means & methods according to the best of your Skill & Knowledge, and to compel all manner of Persons in that behalf as the Case shall require, to appear & to answer, with Power of using any Temporal Coertion, & of inflicting any other Penalty or Mulct, according to the Laws & Customs aforesaid, & to do & minister Justice, according to the Right, Order & Course of the Law, summarily & plainly, looking only into the Truth of the Fact, & to fine, correct, punish, chastize & reform, & imprison, & cause & command to be imprisoned in any Goals being within Our Province of Massachusetts Bay aforesaid & Territories thereunto belonging the Parties guilty, & the Contemnors of the Law & Jurisdiction of Our Admiralty afores^d & Violaters, Usurpers, Delinquents & Contumacious Absenters, Masters of Ships, Mariners Rovers,184 Fishermen, Shipwrights & other Workmen & Artificers whatsoever, exercising any kind of Maritime Affairs, according to the Rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs anciently observed & to deliver & absolutely discharge & cause, & command to be discharged, whatsoever Persons imprisoned in such Cases, who are to be delivered, & to preserve & cause to be preserved the publick Streams, Ports, Rivers, fresh Waters & Creeks whatsoever, within Our Maritime Jurisdiction aforesaid in what Place so ever, they be, in Our said Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereunto belonging & Maritime parts of the same, & thereto adjacent whatsoever, as well for the Preservation of Our Navy Royal & of the Fleets & Vessels of Our Kingdoms & Dominions aforesaid, as of whatsoever Fishes increasing in the Rivers & Places afores^d & also to keep & cause to be executed & kept in Our said Province of Mass^a Bay & Territories thereunto belonging & maritime Parts thereof & thereto adjacent whatsoever, the Rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs anciently observed, & to do, exercise, expedite & execute all & singular other Things in the Premisses, & every of them, as they by right & according to the Laws & Statutes, Ordinances & Customs aforesaid should be done, And Moreover to reform Nets too close & other unlawful Engines or Instruments whatsoever for the catching of Fishes wheresoever by Sea or publick Streams, Ports, Rivers, fresh Waters or Creeks whatsoever throughout Our Province of Massachusetts Bay afores^d & Territories dependent thereon & Maritime parts of the same & thereto adjacent, used or exercised by Water within Our Maritime Jurisdiction afores^d wheresoever, & to punish & correct the Exercisers & Occupiers thereof according to the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs afores^d and to pronounce, promulge & interpose all manner of Sentences & Decrees, & to put the same in Execution, with Cognizance & Jurisdiction of whatsoever other Causes Civil & maritime which relate to the Sea, or which any Manner of Ways respect or concern the Sea, or Passage over the Same, or Naval or Maritime Voyages, or Our said Maritime Jurisdiction, or the Places or Limits of Our said Admiralty, & Cognizance aforementioned, & all other Things done or to be done, with Power also to proceed in the same, according to the Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs aforesaid, anciently used, as well of meer Office mixt or promoted, as at the Instance of any Party, as the Case shall require & seem convenient, & likewise Recognizance & Decision of wreck of the Sea, great or small, & of the Death, drowning & Veiw of dead Bodies of all Persons howsoever killed or drowned or murthered, or that shall happen to be killed, drowned or murthered or by any other means come to their Death in the Sea or publick Streams, Ports, fresh Waters or Creeks whatsoever, within the flowing of the Sea, & high Water Mark, throughout our afores^d Province of Massachusetts Bay & Territories thereunto belonging & maritime Parts of the same & thereto adjacent or elsewhere within Our Maritime Jurisdiction afores^d Together with the Cognizance of Mayhem in the afores^d Places within Our Maritime Jurisdiction afores^d & flowing of the Sea & Water there happening, with Power also of punishing all Delinquents in that kind according to the Exigencies of the Laws & Customs afores^d & to do, exercise, expedite & execute all & singular other Things which in & about the Premisses only, shall be necessary or thought meet according to the Rights, Statutes, Laws, Ordinances & Customs afores^d with Power of deputing & surrogating in your Place for the Premisses, One or more Deputy or Deputies, as often as you shall think fit, & also with Power from Time to Time of naming, appointing, ordaining, assigning, making & constituting whatsoever other Necessary, fit & convenient Officers & Ministers, under you for the s^d Office & Execution thereof in Our s^d Province of Mass^a Bay & Territories thereunto belonging, & maritime Parts of the same & thereto adjacent whatsoever, Saving always the Right of Our High Court of Admiralty of England & also of the Judge & Register of the s^d Court from whom or either of them it is not Our Intention in any thing to derogate by these Presents, & saving to Every One who shall be wronged or grieved by any definitive Sentence or Interlocutory Decree, which shall be given in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Our Province of Mass^a Bay afores^d & Territories thereunto belonging, the Right of appealing to Our afores^d High Court of Admiralty of England; Provided Nevertheless & under this express Condition, that if you the afores^d William Shirley Esq^r Our Captain General & Governour in Chief afores^d shall not yearly viz, at the End of every Year between the Feast of S^t Michael the Archangel & all Saints duely certify & cause to be effectually certified, if you shall be thereunto required, to Us & Our Lieutenant Official, Principal & Commissary General & special & Judge & President of the High Court of Our Admiralty of England afores^d all that which from Time to Time by Virtue of these Presents you shall do, execute, collect or receive in the Premisses or any of them, together with your full & faithful Account thereupon to be made in Authentick Form & Sealed with the Seal of our Office, remaining in your Custody, that from thence & after Default therein these Our Letters Patent of the Office of Vice Admiral afores^d as above granted, shall be null & void & of no Force or Effect; Further we do in Our Name command all & singular Our Governours, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Captains, Marshalls, Bailiffs, Keepers of all our Goals & Prisons, Constables & all other Our Officers & faithful & liege Subjects whatsoever & every of them as well within Liberties & Franchises as without, that in & about the Execution of the Premisses & every of them, they be Aiding, favouring, Assisting, submissive & yield Obedience in all Things as tis fitting to you the aforesaid William Shirley Esq^r Our Captain General & Governour in Chief of our Province of the Massachusetts Bay afores^d & to your Deputy whomsoever & to all other Officers by you appointed or to be appointed, of Our said Vice-Admiralty in Our Province of Massachusetts Bay afores^d & Territories thereunto belonging & maritime Parts of the same & thereto adjoining, under Pain of the Law & the Peril which will fall thereon. Given at London in the high Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof, the Twenty first day of August in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & forty one & of our Reign the fifteenth.

SAM^L HILL Register

The Great Seal of the High Court of Admiralty appending

Ex^d

Examined ꝑ J. Willard Sec͞r͞y

— Crown Commissions, 1628–1663, pp. 40–45.

JONATHAN BELCHER’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COLONIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

2 March, 1729–30

1. 1. Dilecto Nobis Jonathani Belcher 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 predicta 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 predicta et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
15. 15. Dictas Colonias nostras de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
16. 16. Jonathani Belcher 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 predicta 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. Jonathanem Belcher 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. Jonathan Belcher armiger Gubernator noster antedictus.
25. 25. Jonathani Belcher 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 predicta et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
27. 27. Secundo Martii 1729^no
28. 28. Tertio.

— Royal Courts of Justice, Admiralty Registry, Muniment Books, Vol. 8, p. 23.

WILLIAM BURNET’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COLONIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

14 March, 1727–8

1. 1. Dilecto Nobis Gulielmo Burnett 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 Massachusetts Bay in America predicta 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 Massachusetts 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 predicta 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. Guilielmo Burnett 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 predicta et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
18. 18. Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America predicta et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
19. 19. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
20. 20. Colonianrum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
21. 21. Guilielmum Burnett Armigerum Gubernatorem Nostrum predictum.
22. 22. Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America predicta et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
23. 23. Dictis Coloniis nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusets Bay in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
24. 24. Gulielmus Burnett Armiger Gubernator Noster antedictus.
25. 25. Gulielmo Burnett Armigero Gubernatori Nostro Coloniarum nostrarum de New Hampshire et Massachusetts Bay in America predicta.
26. 26. Coloniis Nostris de New Hampshire et Massachusetts Bay in America predicta et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
27. 27. decimo quarto Martii 1727^mo
28. 28. primo.

— Royal Courts of Justice, Admiralty Registry, Muniment Books, Vol. 7, p. 153^b.

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

13 June, 1716

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 1716^to
28. 28. Secundo.

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

ELIZEUS BURGES’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COLONIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

22 March, 1714–5

1. 1. Dilecto Nobis Elizeus Burges 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 predictorum.
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. Elizeus Burges 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. Elizeus Burges 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. Elizeus Burges Armiger Gubernator noster antedictus
25. 25. Elizeus Burges 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. Vicesimo secundo Martii 1714–5.
28. 28. Primo.

— Royal Courts of Justice, Admiralty Registry, Muniment Books, Vol 6, p. 170.

JOSEPH DUDLEY’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COLONIES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ETC.

26 February, 1701–2

1. 1. Dilecto Nobis Josepho Dudley Armigero Gubernatori Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel Kings Province in America necnon Gubernatori principali earundem Provinciarum et Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existenti.
2. 2. Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
3. 3. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
4. 4. dictarum Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel Kings Province in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium predictorum.
5. 5. dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel Kings Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
6. 6. Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation, et le Narraganset Country vel Kings Province in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium predictorum
7. 7. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
8. 8. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
9. 9. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
10. 10. Dictas Provincias et Colonias de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
11. 11. Dictas Provincias et Colonias de Massachusets Bay, New Hamphire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America, et Territoria eisdem dependentia predicta.
12. 12. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America, et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
13. 13. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
14. 14. Dictas Provincias et Colonias de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia predicta.
15. 15. Dictas Provincias et Colonias de Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia predicta.
16. 16. Josepho Dudley Armigero Gubernatori Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Gubernatori principali earundem Provinciarum et Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existenti.
17. 17. dictas Provincias et Colonias de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia predicta.
18. 18. Dictarum Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium predictorum.
19. 19. dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
20. 20. Dictarum Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium predictorum.
21. 21. Josephum Dudley armigerum gubernatorem Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Gubernatorem principalem earundem Provinciarum et Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existentem.
22. 22. In Provinciis et coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
23. 23. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
24. 24. Josephus Dudley axmiger gubernator Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province predictarum in America et Gubernator principalis earundem Provinciarum et Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existens.
25. 25. Josepho Dudley armigero Gubernatori Provinciarum et Coloniarum de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province predictarum in America et Gubernatori principali earundem Provinciarum et Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existenti.
26. 26. Dictis Provinciis et Coloniis de Massachusets Bay, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation et le Narraganset Country vel King’s Province in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
27. 27. Vicesimo sexto die mensis Februarii Anno Domini Millesimo septingentesimo primo (stilo Anglie)
28. 28. decimo quarto.

23° Feb. 1701. Juratur sub valore 50^li per annum.

— Royal Courts of Justice, Admiralty Registry, Muniment Books, Vol. 5, pp. 65–66.

RICHARD, EARL OF BELLOMONT’S COMMISSION as VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE COLONIES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY, NEW YORK, AND NEW HAMPSHIRE

10 October, 1698

Gulielmus Teritus & ca.

1. 1. Predilecto et fideli Nostro Richardo Comiti be Bellamont Gubernatori Nostro Coloniarum nostrarum de Massachusetts Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America necnon Principali Gubernatori nostro earundem Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existenti.
2. 2. Coloniarum Nostrarum de Masachusetts Bay, New Yorke & New Hampshire in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
3. 3. In dictis Coloniis Nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
4. 4. Coloniarum nostrarum de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium predictorum.
5. 5. dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
6. 6. Coloniarum nostrarum de Masachusetts Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
7. 7. In dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
8. 8. In dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
9. 9. In dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
10. 10. per dictas Colonias nostras de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
11. 11. Infra Colonias nostras de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoria eisdem dependentibus.
12. 12. In dictis Coloniis nostras de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
13. 13. In dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
14. 14. per Colonias nostras de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
15. 15. per dictas Colonias nostras de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia.
16. 16. Tibi prefato Richardo Comiti de Bellamont Gubernatori nostro dictarum Coloniarum nostrarum de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et principali Gubernatori nostro earundem Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existenti.
17. 17. In et per Colonias nostras de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoria eisdem dependentia predicta.
18. 18^A. Dictarum Coloniarum nostrarum de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
19. 18^B. In dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus
20. 19. Coloniarum nostrarum de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriorum eisdem dependentium.
21. 20. Teque prefatum Richardum Comitem de Bellamont Gubernatorem nostrum predictum et principalem Gubernatorem nostrum pro tempore ibidem existentem.
22. 21. In Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
23. 22. In dictis Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus.
24. 23. Tu prefatus Richardus Comes de Bellamont Gubernator noster antedictus et principalis Gubernator noster pro tempore ibidem existens.
25. 24. Tibi prefato Richardo Comiti de Bellamont Gubernatori nostro Coloniarum nostrarum de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et principali Gubernatori nostro earundem Coloniarum pro tempore ibidem existenti.
26. 25. In Coloniis nostris de Masachusets Bay, New Yorke et New Hampshire in America et Territoriis eisdem dependentibus predictis.
27. 26. Decimo die mensis Octobris Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentisimo Nonagesimo Octavo Regnique Nostri Decimo.178

— Royal Courts of Justice, Admiralty Registry, Muniment Books, Volume 4, p. 204.