Trusty and well beloved, we greet you well:— You will see by an affidavit whereupon an order of Councill hath been made, (copies of both which are herewith sent you) one William Kelso, Chirurgeon of the ship Anne and Hester, did in his voyage to New England, confesse that he had been Chirurgeon Generall to the forces engaged in the late rebellion in Scotland, having also given out suspicious words as if he had been concerned in that horrid and barbarous murder of the late Arch Bishop of St. Andrews, which we hold our-self by the laws of God and man to prossecute upon all those that shall be found guilty thereof: we do therefore require and command you forth-with to cause dilligent search to be made through out all your Government for the said William Kelso, and being found, to cause him to be apprehended, and sent over thither in safe custody, by the first shipps bound from thence to England, in order to his being proceeded against for the said crimes according to law : Hereof you are not to faile as you tender our displeasure; and so we bid you farewell.

Given at our Court, at White Hall, the 30th day of September, 1682, in the four and thirtieth year of our Reigne.
By his Majesties Command,

L. JENKINS.

To our trusty and well beloved, the Governour and Councill of our colony of Connecticott, in New England.