deprived by Law of dues for so Great and Good a Service
done and effected by them and principally for your Lordships
Honour and Glory Notwithstanding all this it should be re-
quired at their hands to pay themselves a Levy upon them-
selves we much wonder also that your honour should Consider
or think much that a few Cattle not above 11 or 12 Cowes at the
most of your Lordships known Clear stock and those Conquered
again to your Lordship and taken from the unlawful Possessor
should be distributed among those men who had ventured and
hazarded their Fortunes lives and Estates in the defence re-
covery and preservation of your Lordships Province especially
those very Cattle being ingaged with all other your Lordships
Estate here both by Mr Calvert & Mr Lewger to the Soldiers
here in Consideration for their hire and wages and lastly
we wonder that such Exactions should be made & required
upon a People and those your faithful and Loyal Friends who
had Conquered the Place many of them as yet being unsatisfied
and Groaning under their late heavy Sufferings which have
been great indeed when as we can make it Clearly appear to
your Lordship that we have Already satisfied and paid out of
our own Labour and Effects towards the Recovery Preserva-
tion and Sole defence of your Lordships Province 60000l
Tobacco which is far more (my Lord) than all our recovered
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