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Sir WILLIAM HOWE,
Knight of the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, one of His Majesty's Comniffioners
for restoring Peace to the Colonies, General
and Commander in Chief of all His Maje
sty's Forces within the Colonies lying on
the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova-Scotia to
Wefl-Florida, inclusive, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a plentiful Supply of
Vegetables, and of frefh Provisi
ons of all Kin4s, will greatly tend
to the Preservation of the Healtli
of His Majesty's Troops and others; and the
raising large Quantities of Hay, and other
Forage, will very much conduce to His Ma
jesty's Service, as well as be of general Ui? :
In Order therefore to give all due Encourage
ment to alb His Majesty's liege Subjects, so
that they may chearfully exert themselves in
raising such Supplies, under a full Assurance
.of enjoying all possible Protection in so doing,
I have thought fit to ifftfe this Proclamation,
ftriftly charging and commanding, that no
Person or Persons whomsoever, under any
Colour or Pretence whatsoever, presume to
trespass upon any Inclofure belonging to any
other Person or Persons, or to take or carry
—away any Produce from the Owner or Owners
thereof, or to break down, destroy, or in any
Manner injure any Inclofure or Fences what
fcever, now (landing, or hereafter to be erected,
as they will answer for the fame at.,their Peril.
And to the End that this Proclamation may be
more ftridly observed, I co hereby further
charge, require, and command all Officers,
Soldiers, and others, to seize and deliver over
§ to any Officer commanding any Part of His
Majesty's Forces, or to the Provost Marshal,
^llfuch Persons as they Ihall find acting in Dis
obedience hereto, in order that such Offenders
may be brought to condign Punishment for the
fame; hereby declaring that any Negled
lie,rein shall be considered and punished as a
Breach of Orders. And I do further charge
and require the commanding Officers of any
of His Majesty's Forces, and Provost Marshal,
from Time to Time to receive into Cuflody all
such Offenders as shall be brought to them as
aforefaid, and duly to make Report thereof.
Given,under my Hand at Head Quarters,
in New-York, the Twentieth Day of
March/ 1777.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's Command,
Robert Mackenzie, Sec'ry.
By His EXCELLENCY
Sir WILLIAM HOWE,
Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
one of His Majesty's Commissioners for restoring
Peace to the Colonies, General and Commander
in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces within the
Colonies Iving on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova
Scotia to Weft Florida, inclusive, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS for the more speedy and effectual
Suppression of the unnatural Rebellion sub
sisting in North-America, it has been thought proper
to levy a Number of Provincial Troops, thereby
affording to his Majesty's faithful and well-dis
posed Subje&s, Inhabitants of the Colonies, an Op
portunity to co-operate in relieving Themfilves from
the Miseries attendant onAnarchy and Tyranny, and
in restoring theßleffings of Peace and Order with just
and lawful Government: As a Reward for the
' 'Promptitude and Zeal wherewith his Majesty's
faithful Subjects have entered into the Corps now
railing, and as a further Encouragement to others to
follow their laudable Example, I dohereby, in Con
fcquence of Authority to Me given by his Majesty
premise and engage, That all Persons who have, or
do hereafter, inlilt into any of the said Provincial
Corps, to serve for two Years, or during the present
War in North -America, and shall continue faithfully
to serve in any of the faidCorps agreeable to such their
Engagements, (hall, after being reduced or disbanded
obtain, according to their refpt&ive Stations, Grants
of the following Quantizes of vacant Lands in the
Colonies wherein their Corps have been or shall be
tailed, or in such other Colony as his Majesty flialj
think fit.
Every Non-commissioned Officer 200 Acres,
Every private Soldier, 50 do. 8
The fame to be granted to such of the faid'Non
commihioned Officers and Soldiers as shall personally
apply for. the feme, by the Governor of the ref
pe&ive Colonies, without Fee or Reward, fubje& at
the Expiration of Ten Years to the fame Quit-Rents
as other Lands are fubjed to in the Province within
Monday, May 12, 1777.
N E W-Y ORK
AND
WEEKLY
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 30s. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
3 lb. 40Z. for 14 Coppers, and in the fame
Proportion for Loaves of a lesser Weight.
Published January 10, 1777.
Containing tbe eatUefl ^iceg
By His Excellency
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOV^R-SQUARE.
which they fh:11 be granted, and fubjeft to the fame
Conditions of Cultivation and Improvement.
GIVEN under my Hand, at Head Quarters,
in New-Yoik, the 21st Day of April, 1777.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's Command,
Robert Mackenzie, Sec'ry.
By His Excellency
Sir WILLIAM HOWE,
Knight of the moil Honorable Order of the
Bath, General and Commander in Chief of
all His Majesty's Forces within the Colonies
lying on the Atlantic Ocean,fromNova-Sco
tia to Welt-Florida, inclusive, &c. &c. &c,
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS many Inconveniences arise
from Merchants and others, in this
City, charging their Goods and Wares in
Sterling Money, instead of the Currency of
the Province.
I have therefore thought fit to issue this Pro
clamation, hereby ftridly charging and com
manding, that the Prices asked for all Goods,
Wares, Merchandises, and Provisions, here
after to be fold in this City, shall be in Cur
rency, agreeable to the following Rates: A
Guinea weighing 5 Pennyweight 7 Grains,
One Pound Seventeen Shillings and Four
pence; a Half Johannes 9 Pennyweight 3
Grains, Three Pounds Four Shillings; a Moi
dore 6 Pennyweight 22 Grains, Two Pounds
Eight Shillings; a Spanish milled Dollar,
Eight Shillings; an English Shilling, One
Shilling and Nine Pence; of which all Per
sons are to take Notice, and govern them
selves, —under Pain of military Execution.
Given under my Hand, at New-York, the
Thirtieth Day of April, in the Seven
teenth Year of His Majesty's Reign.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's Command,
Robert Mackenzie, Sec'ry.
[7 he following Piece has been pubiiJhed in Phila
delphia a Jem Weeks face ; the Republication
of it here is requeued by many of our Readers.]
It being recommended to Friends by our Meeting
for Sufferings to read in their Families the
following Epistle, wrote by our worthy Friend
William Penn, taken from his Seled Works,
Page 497, — and in order that Friends might
more generally have the Opportunity, it was
thought expedient to re-print it.
To the Children of Light in this Generation,
called of God to be Partakers of eternal
Life in Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God,
and Light of the World.
My Endeared Friends and Brethren,
MANY days and weeks, yea, some
months, hath my heart been heavy,
and my foul unusually fad, for the fake of
this Nation, the Land of our Nativity ! For
I have not only long beheld, with a grieved
eye, the many abominations and grols impie
ties that reign therein, the lulls, pleasures,
wantonness, drunkenness, whoredoms, oaths,
blasphemies, envy, treachery, and persecution
of the just, but for some time I have had a
deep sense that the overflowing scourge of
God's wrath and indignation was just ready
to break out upon the people, Confufion,
Amazement, and Misery ! The weight of
which' hath cauffd me to cry within myfelf,
' Who shall save us? who shall deliver us?
' Are there none to flay the stroke ? To blunt
' the edge? To flop the fury, and intercede
' for the people, and meditate for this poor
' Land, that the Lord may not utterly depart,
' and take his Glory and his Name from it,
' and make it a desolation for the wild beasts
' of the field, and fowls of the air; a land of
' Judgment, and not of Promise; of Curses,
‘ and not of Bleffings.'
My Friends, Whilst the sense of this distress,
that is coming as a dreadful visitation from
the hand of the displeased God, upon this,
ungodly Land, to stain its glory, bring down
its pride, and punish its forgetfulnefs of the
Lord, and his many deliverances, lay so
heavy upon my spirit, the Lord presented be
fore me all the Truly Confeientious and, Well
inclined People in these Nations; and more
especially YOU, his despised, but chosen Ge
neration, for whose fake he would yet have
mercy. And, in the midst of his judgments,
this I received for you from the Lord, as
his holy will and counsel ; and it often sprung
in my heart, with a very frefh and strong Life,
TO THY TENTS, 0 ISRAEL!
TO THY TENTS, 0 ISRAEL!
Monday, 8 Min. after 2
Tuesday, 57 Min. after 2
Wednesday, 46 Min. after 3
Thursday, 30 Min. after 4
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
THE
Friday, 7 Min. after 5
Saturday, 40 Min. after '5
Sunday, 27 Min. after 6
Moori's F. ^ next Wednef.
GOD is thy TENT: To thy Cod, 0 Israel !
Prepare, O Friends, to hand in this day
before the Lord, that is in the firft place, for
ye shall also have your exercise : Yea, great is
that work which we have to do for the Lord,
by his powerful but very peaceable Spirit ;
for God will, by all these hurries, confufions,
and vexations that are at the door, drive peo
ple from their falfe gods, and bring them
home to himself. He will throw down
Wickedness, and establish Righteousness: He
will waste Sin, but Truth shall grow. He
will debase the mountain of empty Profeffion,
but the " Mountain of His Holiness shall be
exalted." lie hath determined to raise up,
and renown, the Seed of Light, Life, and
Truth, in the hearts of people: Holy Pati
ence, Mecknefs, Wisdom, Love, Faith, Pu
rity, and Perseverance (so much wanting in
the world) shall be seen to dwell in it, and
only to comefam it. And my witness is, That
ye are the people, through whom this Heavenly
Seed of Righteousness must clearly and ftedfaftly
so shine unto others, in these uneven and rough
times that are come, and coming, as that your
heavenly Father may be glorified by you.
Wherefore, in the name of the Lord, be
ye all difeumbered of the World, and dis
charged of the Cares of it: Fly, as for your
lives, from the snares therein, and get you
into your Watch-Tower, the Name of the
Lord ! Which is not a dead Name, or a mere
literal Name! but a living, spiritual, and. very
powerful Name; a frong tower indeed, yea,
an invincible fortrefs ; where dwell ye with
God, and in him who fpeaketh Peace to his
Children, and ordains Quietness for them that
trust in him. He will make you to lie down
fafely, even then when Darkness and Confu
fion ihall be thick about you; yea, ye shall
live in the Fire, that will consume the Stubble
of the World, and your Garments shall not
be so much as singed ; for the Son of God,
whom the Flames, as well as Winds and Seas,
obey, will be in the midfl of you.
Next, Friends, this know; We are the
people, above all others, that must Rand in
the gap, -and pray for the putting away of the
wrath, so as that this Land be not made an
utter deflation ; and God expeds it at your
hands. Prepare ye therefore to meet and fanc
tify the Lord in his coming and judgments !.
Why stand any of you gazing ? Let none
gaze or look out, I beseech you; that is the
Enemy's work, to weaken you within ; But
be ye retired, be ye centered in the Eternal
One; and meditate upon the Lord, and his
Living Pure Law, that ye may be wife in
heart, and travel in spirit for this poor land,
and that for Enemies as well as Friends. The
Lord is ready to hear yen for this people,
when you are ready to intercede. And I tef
tify, Abraham is amongst you, God's Friend,
and his just Lot too; yea, jacob that prevail
ed ; and one that is greater than all, Jesus,
the Lamb of God, whose Blood fpeaketh bet
ter things than that of Abel, in whom is the
Mediation and Atonement. Be therefore en
couraged to wait upon the Lord, and to bow
before him, and humbly to mediate in the Life
of Jesus, with him : I know he will putit in
your hearts so to do, if ye wait upon him ;
for he will not cast off this land, as he did
Sodom ; he hath a right feed, a noble people,
in it, that he hath and yet will gather : Many
sheep there be, not yet of our fold, whom he
will bring in ; and the foul weather and the
storms will but help to drive them home to
Jesus, the Living and True Withefs, and
Light within ; that he, whom God hath or
dained to reign, may be great in them.
And lastly, my dear Friends and Brethren,
by how much this day draws nigh, by so much
the more do ye stand loose in your affections to
the world, but fall in the faith; and assemble
yourselves together, and let God arise in you,
and his Power and Spirit of Life among you,
that ye may not only wrestle, but in the End
prevail, that it may be seen that “ Salvation
is of the Jews," the Jews inward, in Spirit and
in Truth: And truly the Time hastens, that
" Ten shall take hold>of the Skirt of such a
Jew; and they shall be favpd." But woe to
the Hypocrite in that day, the Formalist, the
Jew Outward, the Circumcision in the Flesh,
and Fleshly Christian, that cannot refill the
temptations of this world; the Temporizer:
one that runs with the tide ; he will be divided :
For there will be more tides, more ir.terefts on
foot at once, than One : Wherefore perplexity
will take hold on him, his policy will be con-
Wheat per Bushel, ,s. od.
Flour, 30s. od.
Brown Bread, 255. od.
Weft-India Rum, 3s. od.
New-England do. ss. od.
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GAZETTE:
THE
M ERCURY.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 51. 10s.
Single refin'd ditto, 2s. 9^.
Molasses, 3s. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 90s. od.
Pork, 51. 10s.
foreign ano Domefficß.
founded; he will not know what to do to be
fafe, nor what to join with; this " double
minded man" will be unstable in his councils
and in his actions, his sandy foundation will
be Ihaken. Therefore as I said, Woe to the
hypocrite, and to the covetous man too, for his
God will fail him: the Thief, the Moth and
Rust, will invade his bags, and furprize his
treasure: His anguish will be great in this
day: But my dear Brethren, as the Power and
Spirit of our Lord God will preserve and efta
blilh us, if we sincerely and entirely confide
therein, and that above our Solicitation or need
of Carnal Confultatiens or Contrivances, which
we have therefore laid aside so it shall vindicate
us, in due time, in the eyes of all nations,
and present us a people owned, beloved and'
protested of God, in whom we have firmly
believed. Nor is this Preemption, as some
may think; who being not so well acquainted
with that Entire Resignation, and Supreme
Faith (of which Jesus is the Author) that
removes mountains into the sea, conclude, from
mere natural and human confideraiions, against
us; yet we know him in whom we have belie
ved ; and the fame that hath cured us of our
diseases, the fame said unto us, " Arise, and
walk in this way of Faith trust in me, and not
in another." And truly, this is much of that
wonder which men have in their minds and
mouths about us in those Latter Days; 'ln
' Troubles not to be dejefled, and in Jeopardies
' not to be concerned to make to ourselves de
' fences :' As the Lillies, that neither toil nor
spin, yet feed and grow, so we may both be
preserved, and become victorious, without
worldly Force or Projections : For we must shew
ourselves to be that little City and Hill of God,
that hath only bis salvation for our walls and
bulwarks ; by whom he will renown his Arm,
and magnify his Power, above the arts and con
trivances of men. Our weapons and our armor
is spiritual; it hath prevailed, and it will pre
vail, if we keep in the " Faith which was firft
delivered to us." A blessed ffiield, by which
the just live.
And therefore, my dear Friends, let us be
careful not to mingle with the crowd, left
their spirit enter us instead of our spirit entering
them, and we thereby come to fall into the fame
temptations they are liable to, of Fear, and
flying to the Hills and Mountains to protect
them, confiding in the Arm of Flesh to deliver
them; No, no; they must come to us, we
must not go to them. Yet can we not be unfen
fible of their infirmities, as well rs we shall not
be free from feme of their fufferings; we must
make their case as cur own, and travel alike
in spirit for them as for ourfelves^ Let ns
stand in the cour.fel of our God, and ks will
make us preachers forth to them of the frorks
of his divine Power, and the virtue of that
Faith which comes from Heaven; sea, he
will make us as Saviours to^the people, that
they may come to know the holy Law and
Word of the Lord, their Creator, in their
hearts, and have their minds and fouls turned
to him, and frayed upon him, that iniquity
may no more abound, nor ungodliness find a
place; but that in truth, righteousness and
peace, they may be established, and the land
keep its Sabbath to the Lord for ever ! Then
Ihall God lift up the " Light of his Counte
" nance upon us," and water us from Heaven,
and bless us with all temporal and spiritual
blessings ; and we shall be yet called, "TMe Is
" land saved bythe LoßD,"Amen, Amen.
This was upon my foul from God to you :
I could not visit you all with a diftind Mes-.
sage, upon many accounts : Besides, the Time
is short, and the Confufion appears to me to
be at hand: Therefore have i lent it by way
of Epistle, with the brotherly salutation of
unfeigned and unalterable love to you all, in
your fefpetlive meetings and families. And
the Lord God of our visitation and redempti
on, stir you up to these things, and keep us
all in his holy fear, wisdom, love and pati
ence, through all those travels and exercises,
to the end, of our days ; that having finifhed
our testimonies, our heads may go down to the
grave in peace, and our fouls be received into
the. rest which is reserved for the righteous
with God, and with his blessed Lamb for ever.
I am, Your Brother and Companion through
the many Tribulations of our Day and
Testimony, W. PENN.
Worminghuft in Sussex, the,
4th of the 9th month, 1678.
I desire that this Epistle may be read, in the
scar of the Lord, in your fcveral meetings.
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