1761 Septr. 16.

Instruction to Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Arthur Dobbs Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province of North Carolina in America. Given at Our Court at St. James the [intentionally blank] Day of [intentionally blank] 1761 in the [intentionally blank] Year of Our Reign.

Whereas We have been pleased by Our Order in Council of the 11th. Day of Septr. instant, to declare Our Pleasure, that in the Morning & Evening Prayers in the Litany & in all other Parts of the publick Service, as well in the occasional Offices as in the Book of common Prayer where the Royal Family is appointed to be particularly pray'd for, the following Form of Words should be used vizt: Our Gracious Queen Charlotte Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales and all the Royal Family Our Will and Pleasure therefore is, that in all the Prayers Litanys & Collects where the Royal Family is prayed for, and which are used within Our Province of North Carolina under Your Government the same Form and Order of Words be used as follows vizt: Our Gracious Queen Charlotte 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 & Pleasure that you cause the same to be forthwith published in the several Parish Churches and other Places of Divine Worship within our said Province, and that you take Care that due Obedience be paid thereto accordingly.

<N.B. A like Instruction was sent to the Governors of Georgia So. Carolina Virginia New York New Jersey Massachusets N. Hampshire Connecticut Rhode Island Pensylvania Maryland Nova Scotia Barbados Jamaica Leewd. Islands Bermuda Bahamas Quebeck Montreal Cape Breton Guadaloupe.>