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for Extending the duration of the Supply Bills of 1756 by the
Lo: H —— sent to the U: H —— the Letters proposition by a
Poll Tax seems an Aid of the rightest operation towards the
Acts Acquittance, but of these Bills and other your hints the
4th of May of the unreasonable proceedings of the Lo: H ———
seems by that H ——— , from Overflow of black Choler. You
may depend of my regard of what you say concerning Mr
D ——— who now is in Arrears to me almost two years; I shall
be much Obliged to you if you'l remind him of me, it is his
Lordships desire on his Acceptance as Commissary General,
it was his Father and Mr Tasker nay even himself in part paid
jointly with Tasker to me. Yours of the 26th of May owns the
receipt of mine the 18th of Novr & 19th of Jany the Explana-
tion you desire of the History of the Devise on the Cover of
his Lordships Snuff Box sent you, he informs is a Representa-
tion of Solomans Temple, Yours the 7th of July says, " You
cannot easily Conceive how great was my Surprize and Con-
cern at reading the begining of your Letter dated the 17th of
March wherein you seemed to intimate that (notwithstanding
what his Lordship was pleased to write to me the 8th of Jan-
uary last Signifying his Approbation of my Conduct) in your
opinion Scarcely One End of Government had been Answered,
" Give me Leave, the real Intention of that Letter, tho' a
Mistical Shadow of things figurative in the begining; your
Exposition thereon does Surprize me ! Your intimated Con-
struction I had not; his Lordship read, Considered and Ap-
proved of the Contents of that Letter relative to you with no
such View as you intimate, in that Letter speaking of you I
say "I know your intentions towards his Lordship and the
Province in General to be such as every Governor ought to
have," then follows the Words " Scrupulosity and Exactness,"
may induce you to Consider as particular and Invariable Rules
in all Cases and Emergencies? I dont pretend to know that
this is the Case " that my meaning on them Words may rest;
I mean't nice, perfect, delicacy, Honourable Characteristicks of
you; The Tenor and Drift of that Letter is a Brief narration
of the Constitution of the Province, and the Propositions are
of means to Redress, cast off and to Reform the Malignat
Spirit of the Lo: H — se And of which your disquisitions in
Answer are Valuable; as to Colonel Goldsborough and
Colonel Jenkins your Choice no dislike to them, only hinted a
disadvantage their non-Attendance on Public Affairs by Illness,
and of Mr Bordley your Choice, the word Pilot adapted to him
is figurative, as a good Steerman in proper Causes under your
notice and Command; thus Declarative on that Letter, I hope
will remove all 111 impressions conceived against me with
regard to you, who I Esteem and Value from Correspondence
and Experience, knowing your Integrity and real Serviceable
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