I, William Leet Esqr., Governor of his Majesties Colony of Connecticott in New England, in obedience to, and observance of his Majesties commands, given at Hampton Court, the fourth day of August, the 27th year of his Majesties Reigne, 1675, do hereby constitute and appoint you, Capt. John Allyn and Major Edward Palmes, to be commissioners to joyn with such other gentlemen of the three Colonyes of Massachusetts, New Plimouth and Rhoad Island, as by their respective Governours shall be authorized and impowered by their commissions to joyn with you in obedience to, and observance of his Majesties commands; giving unto you hereby full and sufficient authority to meet with the said commissioners at Patuxitt or Providence, at or upon the 22d day of August next ensueing the date hereof, where being assembled from all the said four Colonys, you with them are to joyn in chooseing a President from amonge the said Commissioners, and being so instated into order, you shall act in appointing such officers as may be meet for the keeping up the order authoritie of that his Majesties Court, and in impanelling a jury of twelve honest and indifferent men, out of the sixteen sent from the severall Coloneys, equally chosen and appointed for that worke, who being impannelled and sworn, you are then, as members of said Court, to hear all such pleas, allegations, proofs and evidences as shall be produced by William Harriss and his partners conveying the lands in said Patuxitt claimed by them, being as he saith 9*" rightfully possessed of them, near forty years since, and quietly enjoyed till about the year 1663, and then disquieted by one John Hazzurd and others, claimers of said lands, whom you are to hear also, with their severall pleas, allegations, proofs and evidences, with all impartiality, that so there may be a determination of those differences according to justice, and that your proceedings therein may be the more effectuall, you are hereby authorized joyntly or severally to administer oaths, and to issue out summons to require persons to attend you as commissionated to the hearing of this case, and all his Majesties subjects are required to yield obedience therein, as they will answer the contrary, and you with the rest commissionated as aforesaid, being assembled together, have power to adjourn the Court from time to time, and place to place, as shall by the Court be judged most meet for a speedy and just determination of the case, and such determination being made, you are to render an account thereof, to me. that I may return the same to his Majestie, according to his command, with all convenient speed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed rny hand and seal, in Hartford, on Connecticott, in New England, this sixteenth day of August, in the nine and twentieth year of his Majesties Reign, 1677.