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tye to you and your Heyres and Posterity with the Pope for
ever or els that thy shall or may bee hanged, banished and
their Estates confiscated ?
Unmask the Vizard, and y^u will see a young Pope and a
New Souveraigne pepe out of his shell, and all the popish fac-
tion tents and points at that in their Old and first Acts of As-
semblys, and so it is carryed alonge and all Arts and devises
used, to perswade and create fitt turne-coats to bring their
purpos step by step to pass, from one degree to another, But
wee doe challenge your Turne-Coates viz. your provintiall and
privat councellors and Collonells and Cheef Officers, for
beeinge Champions, with the Attournys to judge, advise and
maintaine the Lord proprietary's devises in his privat enter-
prises, with the Assembly men, that betray y^r trust to your
Country, for a Collonell's or Captains name and office, or
peculiar favour, to the oppression and ruyn of many of the
Kinge's poore subjects, as for example Taylor, who beeinge
speaker in an Assembly An^o— for having directed his Brethren
to establish the two shilling for every hogs head of tobacco
custom goeing out of the province, by an Act intituled a sup-
port for the Lord proprietarys lyff time, to his proper use
onely, was therefore exalted into the place of a Councell and
Maj^r Gen^ll as a speciall favouritt when the said Custom 2. or 3
Assemblys before was onely propounded that it should bee for
to defray the publicq charges for the ease of the comon taxes;
yet then denyed, because not to obstruct free trade and
comerce with the Merchants of owr native Country: produce
the Annals of those Assemblys uncorrupted (for the Secretary
may tear and forswear, and have the popes pardon for it) or
els it will bee witnessed by those which where there present
and yet alive. And Natley: speaker of the laest Assembly
1676. for having bespoke the said 2 shilling custom pr hogh^d
to my Lords Heyre (signifying Heyres and Successors) and
made it heriditary appears now owr Deputy's Deputy Governor,
M^r Warden beeinge called into the other world.
Natly, Nat indeed, you and sutch are the instruments, with
which my Lord Baltemore worked, and converts the comon
good to his privat ends, under the cloak of Assemblys and
Assent of the freemen within the Province which is utterly
denyed. See the old Act of Assembly made the 2 January
1646. at S^t Inagoes fort, for Customs, wherein the Lord pro-
prietary for the same undertaked the whole charge of the
Government in peace and warr and in order to that, there was
by an Assembly A^o 50. enacted 10. sh^g pr. hh. Custom shipped
in Dutch vessells bound for any other port then into England
But this not turning to an Acc^o because that the one halfe was
to goe to support the Lord proprietary, The other halfe to

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