306 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 27-Nov. 14, 1713.

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therefore we cannot now agree to another on this Subject to
trifle away more Time and perhaps spend the Country thirty
or forty thousand Pounds of Tobacco to as little Purpose as in
other Things, we being resolved not to recede from our
former Resolve to send this Address to her Majesty and
admire you should insist thereon since you at first refused to

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confer or join with us therein. We beg your Honours not to
keep us here to no Purpose unless you Resolve to see a fat
Church yard and put an intolerable Burthen on the Country
which they are ill able to bear
R Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to the Council p M^r Garrett, M^r Ward, M^r Tyler,
M^r Ennalls, M^r John Mackall, M^r Sprigg, M^r Mariartee and
M^r Lloyd with the Bill about Parishes &^u
Who return and say they delivered the same.
Ordered the Address be ingrossed
The Honble Col^o Ennalls and Col^o Addison enter the House
and deliver M^r Speaker the Journal of the Committee of
Accounts with some Amendments & the following Message.

By the Council in Assembly
Nov. 9^th 1713

We are surprised to find you assert that the Business of
this Session has not met with suitable Dispatch from us or
that you should surmise the Journal of the Committee of
Accounts is detained with us on any trivial Account. We
never saw that Journal till Saturday Noon the 7^th Instant nor
did we till late on Saturday receive your Message in Relation
to her Majesty's Commands about the Fines for Ordinary
Licenses the Consideration whereof having been before you
since the Beginning of this Session it seems unreasonable you
should circumscribe us in the Time for Consideration thereof
and for Examination of the Journal of the Committee of
Accounts it being every whit as much incumbent on us as
your House to see the Allowances therein are just and rightly
computed therefore cannot but resent such usage. As we
think ourselves proper Judges of the Business before this
Board, we did, at the Beginning of this Session direct the
Clerk of our Board (who has long been a Servant to the
Country and now indisposed in his Health) to employ a Clerk
Assistant [as] we find has been notwithstanding your Assertion
much practised in former Assemblies Accordingly we swore
M^r Benjamin Tasker who has been diligent in that Service
and therefore desire you will order him Satisfaction. The
Clerk of this Board makes no Pretence to any Reward therefor