Letter signed : Whitehall, to the Lieutenant Governour of Placentia, 1717 July 8.

Transmitting orders from King George I and the Regent of France intended to limit the effects of the 1717 rebellion in Martinique against the French government and to keep it from spreading, to John Moody, Deputy Governor of Placentia in Newfoundland: "you should not only prevent & hinder as much as in you lyes, the giving any manner of protection or Assistance to any of the Persons concerned in the said Rebellion, but that you should likewise pursue such further methods for discountenancing & discouraging the Revolt, as may be consistent with your Authority, & without prejudice to His Majesty's service in those parts. As it is His Majesty's Intention, that you should pay a very particular regard to what has been represented on this head from France, you will take the first occasion of giving your orders thereupon in the Town & Garrison under your direction, to the end that nothing may happen in those His Majesty's Dominions, whereby the Regent may loose any proper opportunity of reducing the Rebells to obedience."