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By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; ... A proclamation[.] : Whereas yesterday, towards evening, a great number of people unlawfully and riotously assembled ... I ... issue this proclamation, requiring all justices of peace, and all officers civil and military, to use their utmost endeavours for discovering, apprehending and bringing to justice all and every of the persons concerned ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the fifteenth day of August, 1765 ...

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Massachusetts. Governor (1760-1769 : Bernard)
Other Authors:	Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 41563.
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Stamp Act (1765) Riots > Massachusetts > Boston. Bounties > Massachusetts. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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