The Earl of Dartmouth, one of His Majts Principal Secretaries of State, having acquainted Us, by his Letter of the 29th inst, that several Merchants of undoubted Loyalty & Attachment to His Majts Government & who have, or whose Agents have, Goods and Merchandize's lying in Warehouses & Shops at Boston in North America, exposed to certain damage & great hazard of total destruction, having requested that they may be permitted to put the said Goods on board Ships or Vessels lying in the Harbour, for their greater Security; And His Majesty being desirous that all possible protection should be given to the property of his faithful & well disposed Subjects; You are hereby required & directed, in pursuance of His Pleasure signified to Us by his Lordship in his abovementioned Letter, to permit all such Persons, or their Agents, whom General Gage, or the Commander in Chief for the time being, shall certify to have demeaned themselves as dutiful & loyal Subjects, to secure any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, their Property, on board any Vessels which they may have procured for their reception; And you are to give such protection to the said Vessel as the nature of His Majesty's Service will permit, and to grant the Owners of the Goods every indulgence which the Law will allow. Given &c. 31st August 1775.
Sandwich J Buller H Penton.
By the Phoenix