Ward, John Sprague, & Ezekiel Hull having Given Bond to the Colony
Treasurer in the penal sum of one thousand Pounds, for the said
Clarks faithful performance of the order of Council for his said
enlargement, the said Clark is hereby permitted to go to Lancaster
when his health will permit, and there to continue and not go out
of the Limits of that Town, he in all Respects Conforming himself
to the Condition in said Bond contained, and the Sheriff of said
County of Worcester and all others are hereby Directed to permit
the said Clark to pass unmolested so long as he shall conform
himself to the obligations aforementioned. Given under our Hands at
ye Council Chambers in Watertown the 15 Day of Dec. Anno Domini
1775.

By their Honors Command,

James Prescott W'm Severs
Cha Channey B. Greenleaf
M. Farley W. Spooner
Moses Gill Caleb Cushing
J. Palmer J. Winthrop
Eldad Taylor John Whitcomb
B. White Jed'n Foster
B. Lincoln
Perez Morton
Dp't Sec'ry.

The air of Lancaster, which proved so salubrious to the pensioners of
the British government before named, grew oppressive to this tory
bachelor, as we find by a lengthy petition in Massachusetts Archives
(clxxiii, 546), wherein he begs for a wider range, and especially for