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A83321 An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, whereby Robert Earle of Warwicke is made Governour in chiefe, and Lord high Admirall of all those islands, and other plantations, inhabited, planted, or belonging to any His Majesties the King of Englands subjects, within the bounds, and upon the coasts of America. And a committee appointed to be assisting unto him for the better governing, strengthning, and preservation of the said plantations; but chiefly for the advancement of the true Protastant [sic] religion, and farther spreading of the gospell of Christ among those that yet remaine there in great and miserable blindnesse and ignorance. Die Iovis 2. Novemb. 1643. Ordered this day by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament that this ordinance shall be forthwith printed and published. J. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. England and Wales. Parliament. 1643 (1643) Wing E2104; Thomason E74_17; ESTC R627 2,819 8

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