160 Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1669.

U. H.
Journal
1659-98
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ing sett a Beggar a horse back & he will Ride, soe sett a
childe a horse back & he will be afrade to guide the horse,
therefore let me desire yo^u to goe on with Courage for th^t yo^u
have a power of yo^rselves & Equall to the rest of that the people
& a Liberty equal to the people of England, & that if they
did not make such Laws as was agreeable to their own Con-
science that then this was no Liberty but a seeming Liberty &
had better be without it
M^r Tho^s Trueman saith the same Verbatim
This is the Substance of the latter part of the Sermon.
Signed W^m Calvert
Thomas Trueman

Upon Information to this House that Charles Nicholett hath
spoken certaine seditious Words against the Government of
the Province, It is Ordered that a Messenger be dispatched
away to fetch the said Nicholett to make his Appearance in
this House to abide the Censure of the House for the said
seditious Speeches
Signed Philip Calvert

Then came two Members from the Lower House & pre-
sented this following Petition

To the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor
& his Council in the Upper House of Assembly Assembled

The humble Petition of the Delegates in the Lower House
Assembled Humbly Sheweth — That it was represented to this
House this present day that the great Charges of the Probat
of Wills & granting Administration upon small Estates Per-
sons living at great Distance from the Place where the Office
is kept are Constrained to travel very far for the obtaining the
same, whereby small Estates are almost wholly Consumed in
ffees in the Office & the viatical Expences of the partys so
travelling to obtain the same to the damage of the Creditors
there being scarce any Assetts left, after those Charges defrayed
for the paym^t of the debts of the deceased & the Wife &
Children of the deceased exposed to Extreme Poverty having

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nothing left for their support and Livelyhood
May it therefore please your Honours to take into your
serious Consideration the same that a full remedy be Provided
for the Ease of the People in Case of such small Estates that
they may not be Constrained to travel so far to so great
Charges for obtaining the same
And your Petitioners shall pray
Signed by order of the House Robert Carvile Clk.

The House Adjourned till after dinner