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until his most sacred Majesty shall be graciously pleased to in-
terpose his Royal Authority in puting an End to the Disputes
concerning the Boundaries of both Provinces: We were con-
firmed in these Our hopes, by the frequent Declarations made
by the Gentlemen in the Administration of that Government
that they were determined to live in Amity and good Neigh-
bourhood with your Ldps Tenants, and that they had nothing
more at heart, than the Preservation of the Peace among all
his Majesty's Subjects
But May it please your Lordship We find by sad Experience
that such Professions and Declarations have had no other Effect,
but to delude our own People into a Security that has been
very pernicious to many of them, and to give an Opportunity
to their Neighbours to encroach into their Possessions and de-
prive them of their Properties; Of these We failed not to com-
plain to that Government as injurious to his Majesty's Subjects,
and contrary to their own Professions and all the Rules of Good
Neighbours; but these Complaints have produced no other
Fruit, but an Encrease to a very high Degree of the Outrages
and Violences hereto committed, as Numbers of the People
of Pensylvania assembling themselves together within this
Province, and riding armed in an hostile manner to the great
Terror of his Majesty's Subjects and your Lordships Tenants in
Defiance of all Law and Authority menancing such as would not
absolutely refuse all Obedience to the Laws and Government
of this Province with Imprisonment and Loss of all their
Properties, forceable carrying away poor quiet People who have
nothing to depend on but the fruits of their Labour from their
habitations and imprisoning them, way laying others and threat-
ening to take them alive or dead, threatening to burn
their houses, and actually offering large Rewards to loose
profligate Fellows to commit the most shocking Villanies:
Were these things done by obscure Persons, it might
be reasonably supposed that only such were concerned,
and that they received no Countenance from any Government,
or Men in Authority, and that they might be suppressed, but
when Men of known Interest and figure (in that Province) such
as Assembly men, Magistrates and Sheriffs appear openly and
publickly to be concerned in such Violences, and even avow
their Proceedings, as done by Authority of their Government,
without ever being contradicted, disavowed or called to an
Account; What Miseries may not such of your Lordships
Tenants as have the misfortune to live near such ill Neigh-
bours dread ? Of this We have Proof: And therefore the
Duty of Our Station and a sense of the unjust and severe
Sufferings of Our fellow Subjects oblige Us humbly to repre-
sent their unhappy Situation to your Lordship, and to beseech
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