72 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 23-Nov. 3, 1711.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

to her Majesty's Royal Commands and Instructions is taken
for a slighting your House and leading you and your Posterity
into very great Inconveniencies and tho' we shall always shew
a great Regard for the Welfare of this Province (in which we have
as great an Interest as any) and to you their Representatives yet
at the same Time you must give us Leave to assert our Duty to
her Majesty, the Hon^r of this Board, and our own Reputations
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.

Which being read and debated in the House Resolved the
following Message be again sent to their Honours.

By the House of Delegates
3^d Nov. 1711

We are sorry your Honours misconstrue our Address, and
may well be ignorant of your having Commands not to dis-
place any Justice without Cause shewed to her Majesty you
never having communicated them to us. We presume that
her Majesty knows not that any of them are as well Ministerial
as Judicial Officers nor that the Ministerial Office is executed
without any Oath taken. Certainly if the Public declaring the
Laws past here to be of no Force before her Majesty's Dissas-
sent thereto signified be not an Aggrievance we know not what
is We may well assert the laying the Levy to be the great Cause
of calling us together since it's the first Thing you communicated
to us at the Opening this Session, and so no Untruth in us;
which Expression we have great Reason to resent
We know of no Threats in our Address of going Home
without assessing the publick Charge but still are of Opinion
not to assent to it without removing our Aggrievances which
are a greater Burthen than calling another Assembly who we
doubt not will insist upon it too We have nothing more before
us but to wait your Honours Commands to be discharged
Signed p Order Rich^d Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to the Honble Council by Col^o Smithson, M^r
Mariartee, M^r Scott, M^r Bradford, M^r Robins and Captain
Jones
The Honble Coursey, Col^o Ennalls, and Col^o Addison enter
the House and deliver M^r Speaker the following Message.

By the Honble President & Council in Assembly
Nov^r 3^d 1711.

We never heard that any of the Justices of the Provincial
Court ever publickly declared any Laws legally passed in this