British Royal Proclamations relating to America, 1603–1783, ed. Clarence S. Brigham (New York: Burt Franklin, 1911), 215–218, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46167. . . .And whereas it is just and reasonable, and essential to

Whereas many of Our Subjects in divers Parts of Our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill-designing Men, and forgetting the Allegiance which they owe to

Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe