Ye Rebels and Traitors . . . if ye don t yield implicit obedience to all my commands, just and unjust, ye shall be drag d in chains across the wide ocean, to answer your insolence, and if a mob arises among you to impede my officers in the execution of my orders, I will punish and involve in common ruin whole cities and colonies, with their ten thousand innocents, and ye shan t be heard in your own defense, but shall be murdered and butchered by my dragoons into silence and submission.
