270 Assembly Proceedings, April 1650.

U. H.
Journal
1659-69

there is noe obligation in honnor or Justice to reward, but
rather to punish such who should in soe high a measure mis-
demeane themselves afterwards to the same person, of whom
they had soe well merrited before, as to contribut to his

destruction, ffor a Notorious Iniury from a professed freind is

much more to be resented then from an Enemy. Nevertheless
that the People there may see and be fully satisfied that wee
preferr their Welfare before our owne particular advantage, and
that wee are vnwilling to dissent to any of the proceedings of the
General Assemblyes there, But such onely as necessitate vs soe
to doe, for the Vindication of our honnor and iust rights, which
in truth tends to the preservation of theirs, as depending vpon
ours. Wee doe hereby declare that when the said body of
lawes above mentioned containeing Sixteene in number, and

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sent by vs thither the last yeare shalbe ........

them respectively vnder our or their hand and seale at Armes,
and noe longer. And in Case the said Sixteene lawes aboue
mentioned shalbe consented vnto by a Gennerall Assembly,
and Enacted as lawes there, within the tyme limited as afore-
said: then and not otherwise wee shalbe willing for the Ease
of the People there, to allowe the one halfe yearely of the
Customes due vnto vs, for the future for Tobacco laden aboard
any dutch Ship there, towards the satisfying of all such iust
arreares and claimes touching the late Recovery and Defence
of that province, as shalbe brought into our Secretarys office
there, and made appeare due before the last day of March

next vntill they be fully discharged Provided that the said Stock

of Neate Cattle (viz^t) Sixteene Cowes and a Bull, be raised
and delivered to the Commissioners of our Thresury there, for
our Vse according to the tennor and purport of the aforesaid
Act Entituled, An Act for the Support of the Lord Proprietary
and passed there in the aforesaid Assembly at Saint
Maryes the one and twentieth of Aprill last. There is one
thing more which is desired of vs in the said letter of the
Assembly to vs dated the one and twentith of Aprill last con-
cearning William Tompson, whom they (it seemes) conceive
was faithfull to vs, and our said brother in those late troubles
raised there by that vngrateful Villaine Richard Ingle, although
wee were formed otherwise by some Credible persons
were Eywittnesses of all the Passages of that buisness, and
did assure vs, that the said William Tompson was the onely
Roman Catholick that tooke the then Rebells oath against vs.
And that hee gaue a third parte of his Cattle to the said
Rebells for the maintenance of that Rebellion against our
Right and Government there, which wee had some reason to
give Credit to, for wee could not easily believe that some of