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Liber K.
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ours Inquisition and Examination of the fact, to be reported
to their Majesties whereunto he is most ready and willing to
submit, but considering his present Circumstances under Con-
finement whereby he is much obstructed in the management
of his private Concerns both at home and abroad for the Sup-
port of himself and Family, and how long in Probability he
may lie in that Condition before such time as their Majesties
may have your Honours Report, and their Majesties Pleasure
therein may be signifyed to your Honours being also well
satisfied in the present Settlement of the Government, and
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the Authority thereof, and confiding in your Honours Candor
and Integrity together together with his own Innocency in the
matter is most willing to throw himself upon your Honours
Iudgment at Law, in no wise doubting but depending upon a
just Iudgment and all the favor the Law will afford him upon
his Tryal, which he prays for the Reasons aforesd may be
granted him according to Law
And shall pray &c
Ordered that the Petition of Major Sewall to the King and
Council and Order thereupon made be read, whereupon and
upon due Consideration had thereof, the Prayer of the Peti-
tioner in the foregoing Petition is granted, & ordered that the
said Sewall be brought to his Tryal at the next Provincial
Court in September next
Ordered also that the same be humbly represented to his
Majesty from this Board signifying that the said Major Sewall
having relinquished or waved his Pretences to the Order of
his Majesty in Council passed in his favour for the Examina-
tion of his Charge before this Board, and prayed Admission
to his Tryal at Law, the same was here granted him; and for
the Other two Persons convict, they having passed a fair and
legall Tryal were found guilty, but the Person that actually
committed the Murder had suffered the Law, and therefore his
Majestys Pleasure whether for Mercy or otherwise as to those
other two convicted Persons was humbly requested, this to be
done by way of Letter to the Lords of the Committee for
Trade & Plantations
In the same Letter also to represent and recite the Con-
tents of a Letter received from New York setting forth their
dangerous Condition from the Northern Indians, and the
Necessity they were in for Supply and Assistance from these
neighbouring Colonies, and that in Complyance therewith
they had been supplyed from hence with a Quota of One
hundred pounds Sterling humbly praying his Majestys Direc-
tions what further Supply to make them, being ready and
willing to contribute proportionably to Virginia, and other
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