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sould or disposed of by her to her brother M^r Gyles Brent or
to her Sister M^rs Mary Brent or to any other pson or persons
in trust for them, or any of them. Provided allwaies that in
Liewe of our said Stock and personall Estate the Cattle vnder-
taken to be raised for our vse, viz^t Sixteene cowes and a Bull,
by an Act passed in the Assembly held at Saint Maryes on the
said one and twentith of Aprill one thowsand Six hundred
fforty Nyne and intituled An Act for the Support of the Lord
Proprietary be accordingly provided & raised for vs as afore-
said by an assessment of the then Inhabitants of the said
province and delivered to the Commissioners of our Thresury
there for our vse, at or before Aprill 1651 and not otherwise,
By all which Wee doubt not but all the People there will
Cleerely see how great a desire wee haue to comply with them
in any thing Wee can though with much preiudice to our selfe,
and how willing wee are even to departe from our selfe for their
Good. And whereas Wee are informed that the said Thomas
Greene abouementioned did make vse of his Priviledge of
being a Councellor there to protect him from paying his debts,
Thereby abuseing to our Great dishonnor our authority there,

U.H.

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which was farr from our intention that any of our Councell
should doe, not imagining that any whom wee should honnor
with soe great a dignity, and trust would be soe vnworthy as
to make any such vse thereof. Wee doe therefore hereby
declare for prevention of the like inconvenience hereafter,
That till Wee or our heires shall signify our or their pleasure
to the Contrary every one of our Councell or other Officers
there shalbe lyable to be proceeded against legally for any debt
trespass, Cryme or misdemeanor in the same manner, mutatis
mutandis, as any of the Councell or the like Officers in Virginea
respectiuely haue bene vsually & legally for tenn yeares last
past in the like cases proceeded against in that Collony of Vir-
ginea. And this wee suppose wilbe aswell a sufficient pro-
vision for the prevention of oppression or iniustice to others by
any of our Councell or other officers there, as for the due
Execution of Justice vpon them and every of them vpon all
occasions, And in further answere to the letter to vs aboue
mentioned from the said Maior part of the Vpper and lower
Howse of our said Gennerall Assembly held there in Aprill
last, Wee say that Wee haue caused most of those lawes, which
wee had notice of were passed in the said Assembly and also
of those passed in the Assembly before held at Saint Maryes in
Aprill one thousand Six hundred fforty Nyne above mentioned
to be engr[ossed] together in Parchment, and to be sent here-
with [thi]ther, with our Assent vnto them in an Instru[ment]
in writing vnder our hand and greater seale [at] Armes there-
vnto annexed as thereb[y] appeares, and wherevnto for more

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