By the Honourable Thomas Fitch, Esq ; governor of His-Majesty's English colony of Connecticut ... A proclamation : Whereas the General Assembly of this colony at the sessions in October last ... have ... desired me to issue forth a proclamation, commanding and strictly enjoining ... officers within this colony ... duly to put in execution, the laws made for the observation of the Sabbath or Lord's-Day, and for preventing disorders thereon ... Given under my hand in Norwalk, the fifth day of December ... 1757