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remote of your Subjects; On your Majestys most extensive
and Royal Goodness and Justice We relye, and earnestly pray
your Majestys Royal Interposition and Commands for the
Preservation of Peace on Our Borders and Tryal of these
Violaters thereof, in a Place where the Facts were committed
and where they may receive their deserved Punishment as
well as for the Discharge of, and Retribution of Damages to
those Unhappy Prisoners
Your Majestys most Gracious Condescension in hearkening
to these Our Complaints must the more (if possible) inforce
Our inviolable Duty in praying for the Blessings of Length &
Happiness to Your Majestys Reign and an Ever Continuance
of the Crown in a Succession of the illustrious House of
Hannover, whose chief Good is placed only in that of Man-
kind, and more especially of it's Subjects, amongst the most
Dutiful and Obedient of whom We humbly presume to
declare Ourselves
Sam: Ogle
Benj^a Tasker on behalf of the Council

To the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of the Pro-
vince of Maryland

The Humble Remonstrance of the Governor and Council
of the said Province

May it please your Lordship
We the Governor and Council of Your Lordships Province
of Maryland beg Leave humbly to represent to Your Lord-
ship that several Germans and Palatines some Years ago
arrived in these Parts of America, made their Applications
and Requests to this Government for the Liberty of seating
and settling with their Families on Lands within this Province;
which Desires this Gov^t not only thought reasonable, but the
People so deserving Encouragement, that several considerable
Quantities of Land lying on the Borders of this Province
adjoyning to the Province of Pensilvania were allotted and
assigned to them for their Residence and Support under the
Authority of this Government, and accordingly not less than
fifty or Sixty Families of that Nation immediately took Pos-
session of those Lands, and paid their Proportion of the
Taxes, and demeaned themselves in every other Respect as
peaceable Subjects to his Majesty and unquestionable Inhabi-
tants and Tenants of this Province, until very lately; When
through Unwariness and too much Credulity, they suffered
themselves to be prevailed on to renounce openly their Sub-
mission to this Government, and to declare their Resolution
to transfer their Obedience to the Government of Pensilvania,

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