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bert Clark, and one or two more I forgott: Upon their report
to the House (which was presently voted to be entered) a vote
past that letters should be sent to each neighbouring Govern-
ment, as farr as new England, that the house had found by
severall substantiall evidences that your Lordship's deputies
have been tampering with the Northern Indians to come in
and cut off the Protestants, and therefore desires all of 'em to
hold a strict correspondency with this Government and to take
up all persons of this Colony that shall seem any way suspi-
cious; This is the purport, but Fme promised a copy of the
letter ittselfe. The grand Ordinance is not yett come up,
which must give the measures to all their actions both civill
and millitary. Your Lordship will see in itt all the Officers,
and by that know that those that have gott Estates under
your Lordship, are as ready to serve Jack Coade as your
Lordship, butt there are some entered that I'me sure will never
comply with itt. People in debt think itt the bravest time that
ever was.no Courts open, nor no law proceedings, which they
pray may continue, as long as they live. I asked why Coade
& his Councill divested themselves of that supream power
wch they usurped att first; and t'was tould me that Coade pro-
posed to the House to have a standing Committee to receive
all appeals, and be as the Grand Councill of the Countrey; but
the house would be all alike in power; that the Officers civill
& millitary of each respective County should give definitive
sentences in all matters whatsoever, till further Orders out of
Engld so that Coade & his adherents now have no more power
out of their County than we cashiered Officers. They have
drawne many impeachments against severall, which are not
sent home, and which they keep untill the King sends or
orders Commrs. It's a pleasant thing to see the rascals in
their cupps, Coade calls himself Massinella, but vaunts he
has outraigned him, & little Taylard is his Higgins; Jowles will
be Count Scamburgh & Vivian Beal, Argyle; Furlin, glories
in the name of Ferguson, and Cheseldyn is speaker Williams,
but the Dog will never have so much witt; & I believe that if
those persons of honour whose names they usurp did but
know what villians they were, instead of a recompence (which
they expect from His Majestie) would gett an order that they
may be try'd & hanged. And now I think I have given your
Lordship trouble enough to spoile your next meale; yett, my
Lord, this comfort remains still, that the best men & best
Protestants such as Coll: Coursey, Coll: Codd, Coll: Wells, and
a great many others (men of the best Estates, & real pro-
fessors of the Protestant Religion) stand stifly up for your
Lordship's interests.
This onely more I have to say in my own behalf, being att
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