George R. Instruction to Our Trusty and Wellbeloved the Governor of Our Island of Cape Breton and the Territories depending thereon in America. Given at Our Court at St. James's the 29th Day of September 1761 in the first year of Our Reign.
<prepared by the Board of Trade.> Whereas We have been pleased by Our Order in Council of the 11th day of September 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 Dowger 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 pray'd for, and which are used within Our Island of Cape Breton under your Government, the same Form and order of Words be used as follows, Vizt. Our Gracious Queen Charlotte, Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowger of Wales and all the Royal Family and for the better Notice hereof in Our said Island, 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 Island, and that you take Care that due Obedience be paid thereto accordingly
G.R.
A Like Instruction was sent to the following Govrs. Virginia, New York, Massachusets Bay, Georgia, No Carolina, So Carolina, Nova Scotia, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Governor & Compy. of Connecticut, Do. Rhode Island, Depty Govr. of Pensilvania, Do. Maryland, Quebec & Montreal, Governors of Jamaica, Leward Islands, Barbados, Guadalupe, Bermuda, Bahama Islands.
