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their Journal that they receive that Acknowledgment as Satis-
faction and will join with You in a Petition of Grace and Favour
(not of Right) to his Lordship that he will be pleased to settle
the Attornys & Clerk's fees together with the Proceedings of
his Courts in such form as We (upon due Advice & Consider-
ation of a Committee of the ablest of both houses) shall draw
up & send to his said Lordship Vexatious Informers We know
none Authorized therefore Wave that Article This We Con-
ceive the Way to Peace & We hope You will Embrace it
After the abovesaid Message sent to the Lower House came
a Member from the said House to acquaint this House that the
Lower House was willing to meet this House at a Conference
when they would be pleased to appoint the time and Place
To which was Answered
That they thought no place more large or Convenient than
this place wherein the Upper House now sits, & the time im-
mediately if they pleased
Then came a Member of the Lower House & said he was
sent from the Lower House to desire of this House that they
would be pleased to send them the Copy of the Lord Proprie-
tor's Charter which was immediately given unto them and
desired withall that they would so soon as possible dispatch
their Answer
After two Hours time expired there went a Member from
this House to know whether they had their Answer ready or
not & to desire them to send their Answer immediately that
the Governour might not wait upon them any longer
And after a While came the whole Lower House and then
the Speaker read this following Paper Viz.
To the honourable the Upper House of Assembly
26th April 1669
We should readily and willingly Embrace any way to peace
whereby We may not be found to betray the Trust reposed in
Us & to violate the Dictates of our own Conscience, We are
sorry exceeding Sorry that We are driven to Say that your
Answer & Objections to the paper Entituled the publick Griev-
ances are not Satisfactory or that by the refulgent Lustre of
the Eradiations of Reason that shine & dart forth from them
the weak & dim Eye of our Understandings is dazled & struck
into Obscurity. We are sensible of your great Condescension
in receding from former Votes & Commands & yet We would
desire You to believe that We did not design by Obstinacy &
Refractoryness to draw You to the same God forbid that We
should stile his Lordships Rights Grievances, As to that We
shall only say that We verily believe his Lordship out of his
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