584   Appendix to Council Proceedings, 1696—1729.

             B.   M. proceedings; for the laws being put in execution by severall

             Vol. 25. Proclamations the officers of Justice were discountenanced lfl

                  doing such things as were formerly practised, nor suffer'd to

                  make. the corruption of their offices subservient to their de

                  signs in causing sutors to attend them in inconvenient places at

                  their pleasure their offices being turn'd to serve their private

                  intrest rather than the public good which suffer'd extreamly

                  by delay of Justice to the partys. The Case of the Atturnys

                  is fit to be Represented with the high inconveniencys follow

                  ing if they may not be suspended from their practise as the

                  Governour shall see reason and punisht for their misdemean

                  ors and ill practices against the Government some of them

                  being the great incendiaries in the house of Delegates pre

                  tending by opinions in Law to mislead their fellow members

                  and actually tyrannizing over those their Clyents whose affairs

                  they knavishly and ignorantly manage severall of them who

                  have served their time at the Hoe setting up to be lawyers

                  and pretending to be patrons of the People's libertys and

                  propertys without any other qualification then stout drinking

                  and noisy Impudence.

                       Memorandums for Pensilvania.

                   That all the papers concerning Day the privateer taken by

                  Captain Daniel were sent home to the Lords Commissioners

                  for Trade to the Lords of the Treasury and to the Comrs of

                  the Custom house last year in a Book sticht. That his Excy

                  hath now severall complaints from Masters and Merchants of

                  seamen and servants run away. The Copy of their Petition

                  is sent about the Country.

                   The Petition of the Masters to Captain Wager Commo

                  dore was sent home last year as Day's papers were. The

                  second representation in tht Petition was: the great disappoint

                  ment most of us have met with since our arrivall by sickness

                  mortality and the running away of our men thro' the great

                  encouragement given in Pensilvania and that Petition to

                  Captain Wager was signed by the Justices of the Provincial

                  Court by the Grand Jury and all the County Courts of the

                  Province. Therefore that it be represented to their Lord.

                  ships the Necessity of their taking care to prevent it.

                               Observation.

                   That his Excellency is much afraid that the shipps which

                  lye up in the Bay towards Pensilvania will suffer much this

                  summer by their seamen being enveagled away especially if