Note 1 — 1685, February 6.
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A letter to the several Governors of the Plantations was drawn up in the Council, February 6, 1685, announcing the death of King Charles, ordering that the new King be proclaimed in the colonies, and transmitting the above proclamation (Acts of Privy Council, ii, 74; see also Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1685-1688, p. 1).