Given at Our Court at St. James's, the Seventh Day of October, One thousand seven hundred and sixty three, in the Third Year of Our Reign.
God save the King.
London: Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett. 1763.
1 p. folio. Copies in Antiq., and P. C.; also in Mass. State Archives, and John Carter Brown Library. Entered on Patent Rolls; entered in Privy Council Register, III Geo., vol. 3, p. 102. Printed in "London Gazette," October 8, 1763, and in several of the colonial newspapers, as the "Providence Gazette," December 17, 1763; also in the "Annual Register," vi, 208, Knox, "New Collection of Voyages," 1767, ii, 265, and elsewhere.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Text of treaty can be consulted in Chalmers' Collection of Treaties, i, 467.
[2] The events leading up to the issuing of this proclamation have been so thoroughly treated in C. W. Alvord's "Genesis of the Proclamation of 1763" in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. xxxvi, p. 20, and in C. E. Carter's Great Britain and the Illinois Country (Prize Essay of the Amer. Hist. Assoc., 1910) that any explanatory notes in this place seem unnecessary.
[3] Nipissim in proclamation as printed in the London Gazette.