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your Petitioner only for altering a wrong Direction of a
Warrant wrote by Order of the Magistrate by your Petitioner
as the worshipful Mr Leeds declared upon Oath, by means
whereof Your Petitioner was put to a very great Expence ;
That your Petitioner was no sooner discharged of that Affair,
then the said Robins procured an Information to be exhibited
against your Petitioner for saying that the said Robins had
not done him Justice in the Dispute with Sutton abovemencond
as appears by a Copy thereof herewith presented to your
Excellency, and which, if at all said, was spoken in private
Conversation, and as your Petitioner is advised by Council,
that the Words though spoken are not any Offence, nor within
the Letter or Meaning of the Act of Assembly upon which
the Information is founded; Your Petitioner doubts not but
the Prosecution will appear to your Excellency as malicious as
groundless; That your Petitioner being called upon in the
Absence of his Attorney and obliged to plead to the said
Information, that is not guilty, whereby your Petitioner is given
to understand he hath waved his Right of Demurer, and as
the Prosecutor has joined Issue on the fact, and inasmuch as
your Petitioner is already almost ruined the Sheriffs fees, and
Officers and Evidence which the said Robins has caused to
be summoned their fees amounting to a large Sum of Tobacco,
so that if your Petitioner is obliged to undergo a Tryal by the
Country, the Expence thereof will entirely ruin your Petitioner
though he be acquitted of the Charge, Your Petitioner not
being in Circumstances to wage Law with a Man of Mr Robins
Power, Influence and Wealth, so as to recover Satisfaction for
the great Damage he has sustained by the unjust Prosecution
stirred up, and carryed on against him by the Procurement of
the said Robins; Under these unhappy Circumstances Your
Petitioner begs Leave to prostrate himself at your Excellencys
feet, whose noble Soul abhors Oppression, and whose vigilant
& compassionate Care for his People will be a perpetual
Monument of his Mercy and Justice, and to crave your Excel-
lencys Protection against this undeserved and cruel Prosecu-
tion, and that your Excellency, by paring the Talons of those
who abuse the Authority vested in them by your Excellency,
and convert the wholesome streams which proceed from so
pure a fountain into the most pestiferous Draught, will restore
Peace to the minds of many of his Lordships Tenants of
Talbot County who groan under the Insults of those, whose
Authority was designed for their Protection. And Your Peti-
tioner with very many more, for Your Excellency, as in Duty
bound will ever pray &c.
Upon reading and considering the said Petition, It is or-
dered that a Copy thereof be sent to Mr Robins; and that both
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