By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A Proclamation for Proroguing the General Assembly ... to Thursday, the Twenty-sixth of said January

by Massachusetts Bay

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Broadside, royal arms at top. 14x9-1/2 inches. Old folds, minor toning, untrimmed with deckle edges. Not in Evans or Bristol; unrecorded in ESTC. Ford 777 known only from the printing within the Boston Weekly News-Letter . Item #372577 Prior to the American Revolution, the Colonial Governors of Massachusetts often used proroguation, the delay or dissolution of sessions of the General Assembly, as punishment for disagreement or as a means of

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