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    person & Governmt tho' both Law & reason and the Common B. M.

    practise of England and all other nations Require such solemn Vol. 25.

    Credentialls from all persons upon their Promotion to a pub-

    lick Station.

      The Principles they maintaine doe militate against the very

    end & essentialls of Governmt wch is the Protection of the

    People in all their just Interests, and the bringing of those to

    condign Punishmt that shall invade them. Soc they over

    powering us with the Votes in our publick Assemblies, noe Bills

    can pass for the forming of a Millitia Levying of forces &Ca for

    the defence of the Country or for the Collecting and Sending of

    any Assistance or Quotas for the common defence of Frontiers

    or the Raiseing of Moneys to answer any such exigenccs of

    Governmt And for such their proceedings alleadge tht it is

    unlawful that men should be hyred to fight or that the Sword

    should bee drawne or made use of in any case whatsoever by

       meanes the County Lyes naked & defensless & exposed

    to be ruin'd & made a Prey of by any Enemy that shall first

    invade it.

       Their partiality in the Publick administration of Justice is

    soe notorious tht the Quakers Justice is become a proverb in

    these parts of the world wch natureally flowes from tht greate

    Odium & Aversion wch they entertain against all Christian

    professions & Communities styling all out the Pale of their

    own Faction, People of the World, & themselves the Lords

    People, hence it is that the People of the World as they call

    them are seldom regarded for the meritt of their cause in their

    Courts of Judicature when they stand in Competition with

    any of their Party. The notorious Instances that might bee

    collected of their injustice Violence & Oppression would swell

    a large vollume but Wee shall not presume upon a Larger

    Narrative on tht subject least wee should too much trespass

    upon yor Lordshipps patience then the Recitall of three:

       About eighteen moneths agoe out of a deep Sense of our

    unhappy Circumstances many of us did signe to such a Re

    monstrance as wee here present yor Lordships which tho'

    addressed to his Majtie, & purporting only a candid recitall

    of our Agrievances & our humble suit to his Majtie for a

    Remedy, was suppressed by the Quakers some of the Sub

    scribers being imprisoned by them, others Terrifyed with grie

    vous threats, under a pretence that such a Petition was an

    Arraigning of the Governmt & against the Laws of it, By that

    Violence Robbing us of another inestimable Priviledge the Rt

    of Petitioning.

       The next is a late instance of their Illegal & unjust Cruelty

    Practised upon the Person of one Mary Hunt the wife ofJere

    miah Hunt late of Jamaica & now an Inhabitant in Philadel