6. Commission of Joseph Dudley as Deputy Governor of the Province of West New Jersey; signed by Dr. Daniel Coxe, Governor of said Province, Dec. 5, 1690.

"To all People to whom this p'sent Writing shall come I Daniel Coxe of London Doct! in Physick Governour of the Province of West New Jersey in America, and of the Islands and Territories thereunto belonging send Greeting, Know yee that I the said Daniel Coxe have nominated constituted and appointed in my place my well beloved Friend Joseph Dudley of Roxbury in New England Esq to be Deputy Governour of the said province of West New Jersey and the Islands and Territories thereunto belonging, hereby granting unto the said Joseph Dudley the full power authority exercise and office of Deputy Governour of the said Province Islands and Territories, and all and every such and the like powers authorities priviledges Jurisdictions Fees profits and perquisites as any Deputy Governour there, under his late Majesty when Duke of York, or any other Deputy Governour there by force or vertue of the several Letters Patents of his late Majesty King Charles the Second bearing date the Twelfth of March in the Sixteenth year of his late reigne, and the twenty nineth of June in the sixteenth or twenty sixth year of his said Reigne, or any deputation or deputations by from or under his late Maj' when Duke of Yorke, or by from or under any other Governour of the said province Islands and Territories or otherwise howsoever lawfully did might or ought to have used exercised or enjoyed in or Over the said province Lands territories People and Inhabitants therein or in any of them, To have use exercise execute and enjoy the said Office of Deputy Governour and all the said powers authorities priviledges and Jurisdictions, Together with all Fees profits and perquisites thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining Unto the said Joseph Dudley For and during the full Terme and space of Three yeares next ensuing after the first arrival of the said Joseph Dudley in the said Province of West New Jersey aforesaid If I the said Daniel Coxe shall soe long live and continue Governour of the said province, Soe alwaies That the said Joseph Dudley in the use and Exercise of the said Powers authorities and Jurisdictions shall pursue such lawful Instructious and directions as he shall from time to time receive from mee the said Daniel Coxe Provided That if I the said Daniel Coxe shall arrive in the said Province before the arrival of the said Joseph Dudley, there, or at any time afterwards within the said space of Three yeares, That then and in any of the said cases This present Grant and deputation

shall immediately from thenceforth be utterly void and of none effect, Anything herein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. In witnesse whereof I the said Daniel Coxe have hereunto set my hand and seal this Fifth day of December Anno domini 1690 And in the Second year of the reigne of Our Sovererigne Lord and Lady William and Mary by the grace of god King and Queen of England, &c,"

7. Commission of William Dudley as Major of Foot in the Province of Massachusetts Bay; signed by Joseph Dudley, Governor, Dec. 9, 1710.

8. A Proclamation for a General Embargo, June 9, 1711 — a printed broadside.

[This proclamation is printed on the following page, in order that it may be given entire on one page.]

9. The Life of Thomas Dudley.

[The Life of Dudley will be found, farther on, printed entire.]

By His EXCELLENCr,

Jofeph Dudley Efq.

Captain General and GOVERNOUR in Chief, in and over Her Majefties Provinces of the Malachusetts-Bay and New-Hampfhire in New-England, and Vice-Admiral of the fame.

A

PROCLAMATION

For a General Embargo.

In Obedience to Her Majefties Commands:

I Do, by and with the Advice of Her Majestics Council, herehy

Order a strict Embargo upon all Outward bound Mercbant Ships and Vessels; and that none be permitted to Sail from the several Ports and Harbours where they now are until further Order; Except Fishing and Coafting Provifion Sloops and Veffels, Wood and Lumber Sloops. Of which all the Officers of Her Majesties Customs, Naval and Empost Officers, Captains and Commanders of Castles and Forts are strictly Commanded to take Notice and Govern themselves accordingly. And not to Grant Clearings or Passes, nor to suffer any Ship or Vessel, other than as aforesaid, to Sail out of any Port or Harbour, or to pass any Castle, Fort or Fortification, without particular Express Order for the same from my Self.

Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the Ninth Day of June, 1711.
In the Tenth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady ANNE,
by the Grace of GOD of GREAT BRITAIN, France and Ireland,
QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c.

By Order of the Governour, by &
with the Advice of the Council,

Esaac Addington Secr.

7. DUDLEY.

BOSTON: Printed by B. Green, Printer to His Excellency the GOV. & COUNCIL, 1711.

THE LIFE

OF

MR. THOMAS DUDLEY,

SEVERAL TIMES GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS COLONY, IN NEW ENGLAND."

MR. DUDLEY was born in the town of Northampton, in the year 1674.* His father was Capt Roger Dudley, who was slain in the wars, when this his son & one only daughter were very [young]. But he might say in his experience that when he was forsaken of father and mother, then God took him up & stirred up some friends that took special charge of him even in his childhood. 'Twas said, that there was five hundred pounds left for him in an unknown hand, which was not so long concealed but that it came to light in due time, and was seasonably delivered into his own hands after he came to mans estate; but before that time he passed through many changes, wherein he found the goodness of God, both in way of protection and preservation, by all which experiences he was the better prepared for such eminent services for the Church of God which he was in after time called unto. In his minority & childhood it pleased God to move the heart of one Mrs. Puefroy, a gentlewoman famed in the parts about North-Hampton for wisdom, piety and works of charity: by her care he was trained up in some Latin school, wherein he learned the rudiments of his grammar, the which he improved afterwards by his own industry to considerable advantage, so as he was able even in his age to understand any Latin author as well as the best clerk

* An error for 1574. The true year of his birth is said to be 1576.- EDS.

in the country that had been continually kept to study; which made it the more remarkable in the observation of some ministers, in whose hearing he was sometimes occasioned to read something out of a Latin book, who, by his false pronunciation gathered* he did not understand what he read; but upon further search and enquiry they found that he understood the language as well as themselves, althô for want of school literature he missed the true pronunciation according to the rules of grammar to which children are exactly held at school; and probably after the decease of his parents he had not opportunity of that advantage, so long as many children under their parents wings [failed to enjoy it. But so soon as ever he had passed his childhood he was, by those that stood his best friends, perferrd to be a page to the Earle of North-Hampton, under whom he had opportunity to learn courtship & whatever belonged to civility & good behaviour. With that Earle he tarried till he was ripe for higher services, and then was taken by Judge Nichols to be his clerk, who being his kinsman also, by the mother's side, took more special notice of him; and from him, being a prompt young man, he learned much skill in the law, & attained to such abilities as rendred him capable of performing a Secretary's place, for he was known to have a very good pen, to draw up any writing in succinct and apt expressions, which so far commended him to the favour of the judge that he would never have dismissed † him from his service, but have preferred him to some more eminent and profitable employment under him, but that he was prevented by death to put in execution what he had designed for his further promotion. But by this time he had attained to so much skill as to know how to live in the world, and undertake businesses of considerable moment, as was well known afterwards when it came to the trial. But before any opportunity of that nature fell out, which called him to put in practice what he had learned, or was able to do by his pen, he was called

* Mr Adlard prints, "false pronunciation altered." — Eds.
† Mr. Adlard prints, "assigned him from his service."— Eps.