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Additional Instruction to Our Trusty and Wel beloved Benning Wentworth Esqr., Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in, and over Our Province of New Hampshire in America; And in his Absence to Our Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of the said Province for the Time being. Given at Our Court at Leicester House the Thirty first Day of October 1760, in the First year of Our Reign.

Whereas We have been pleased by Our Order in Council of the 27th. of October last, (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) to declare Our Pleasure, that in all the Prayers Litanies and Collects for the Royal Family, instead of the Words (Their Royal Highnesses George Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales, the Duke, the Princesses and all the Royal Family) there should be inserted (Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales and all the Royal Family) Our Will and Pleasure therefore is, that in all the Prayers, Litanies and Collects for the Royal Family, to be used within Our Province of New Hampshire under your Government, instead of the Words (Their Royal Highnesses George Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales, the Duke, the Princesses and all the Royal Family) there be inserted (Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, and all the Royal Family) And for the better Notice hereof in Our said Province, It is Our further Will and Pleasure, that you cause the same to be forthwith published in the several Parish Churches, and other Places of Divine Worship within the said Province, and that you take care that Obedience be paid thereto Accordingly.

NB. A like Instruction was given to Charles Lawrance, Esqr., Governor of Nova Scotia, or Acadia Francis Bernard, Esqr., Governor of Massachuset Bay Governor & Company of Rhode Island; Do. Connecticut. Cadwallader Colden, Esqr., President of the Council & Commander in Chief of New York. Thomas Boon, Esqr., Governor of New Jersey. James Hamilton, Esqr., Deputy Governor of Pensilvania. Horatio Sharpe, Esqr., Deputy Governor of Maryland. Francis Fauquier, Esqr., Lieutt. Governor of Virginia. Arthur Dobbs, Esqr., Governor of North Carolina. William Bull, Esqr., Lieut. Governor of South Carolina. James Wright, Esqr., Lieut. Governor of Georgia. William Popple, Esqr., Governor of the Bermuda Islands. William Shirley, Esqr., Governor of the Bahama Islands. George Thomas, Esqr., Governor of the Leward Islands. Charles Pinfold, Esqr., Governor of Barbados. Henry More, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.