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the Bill for reviving certain Laws might be sent them with the
Assent of this house thereunto for Answer returned him, that
so soon as Coll Tailler and Coll Stevens come from the Com-
mittee of Accounts this house would take the Same into
Examination and send them an Answer thereunto; M^r Carvile
returns to the Lower house
Enter Coll Tailler and Coll Stevens from the Committee of
Accounts
Read another Petition Exhibited by Iacob Young Viz^t

To the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary in his Lord-
ships Upper house of Assem^ly
The Humble Petition of Iacob Young.
Sheweth that—
Whereas Your Petitioner hath been accused and Impeached
by Your Lordships Lower house of Assembly of divers Crimes
and Offences in Severall Articles Exhibited by them to your
Lordships Upper house of Assembly; To which Articles Your
Petitioner hath put in his several reasons, in Some of which
reasons Your Petitioner hath Affirmed that he can prove by
Witnesses, that several things Imputed to him as Crimes and
Offences in the said Articles were done in Obedience to Your
Lordships Officers Commands, though unhappily otherwise
understood by the Lower house, upon which Affirmation of

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Your Petitioner Your Lordships Upper house intending to do
your Petitioner all right and Iustice did putt of Your Pet^rs
Tryall till he could procure such Witnesses as in his said
Answer he affirmed he had, Now so it is may it please Your
Lordship that Your Petitioner having understood that the
next Assembly will not be called till the Spring and that Your
Petitioner cannot be tryed till then by Common Course of
Such tryalls as Your Petitioner must either be Condemned or
Iustified by
Humbly prayeth Your Lordship to Consider Your Peti-
tioners Condition, who being now Stricken in Years, and not
able to endure so hard and Strict an Imprisonment as hitherto
ha hath Suffered by being kept in Irons in a room without
fire, and all his provision cold before he can have it, all which
hardships will now be Augmented by a cold approaching
Winter to the Death and Distruction of Your Petitioner he
humbly prayeth that he may have liberty to Wave so much of
his Answer aforesaid as any way tends to the producing of
Evidences on Your Petitioners part and humbly prays that he
may come to his Tryall forthwith, being willing to stand there-
unto as well knowing his own innocence and Integrity toward
Your Lordship, and the Good People of this Province, and the
Government thereof, in the reall Service Whereof and hearty
prayers he desireth to Spend the Remainder of his Life—

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