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have a grateful Sense of your Lordship's Favours therein &
will sufficiently demonstrate to us your Lordships Justice &
pious Resolution of preserving us our religious Civil Rights
& Libertys & will put a Check to the aspiring Hopes of both
our Secret & open Adversarys
On the Contrary the recalling or curtailing the powers &
Authoritys of the Governour at this juncture cannot fail to
gratify those Papists who have very lately Soared to that
Height of Impudence as to threaten his Person & undervalue
his power upon his causing a due prosecution to be made
against those Papists who had daringly & openly drank the
Pretender's Health, as King of Great Brittain & audaciously
cursed his most Sacred Majesty King George (whom God
long preserve) And on the Governour's Absence upon the
necessary occasions of the Country in the night of that Day
on which they commemorate the supposed Anniversary or
Birth of the sd Pretender had caused some of the Great Guns

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at the Seat of Governmt to be loaded & fired off to the terror
& Amazemt of the Inhabitants & in Contempt of his most
Sacred Majesty & your Lordship's good Rule & Government
of this Province
And this would no less discourage his Majesty's Protestant
Subjects here & possess their minds with fears & Jealousies
to see themselves so much Subjected to the power of Papists
& a Governour removed who has so signally exerted & con-
tinues Still with unbyassed Resolution to exert his Authority
for the Support of your Prerogative & promoting your In-
terest rendring the Government most acceptable to all the
Inhabit" here (except those Who are disaffected to the pro-
testant Succession & Interest) by making the happy Constitu-
tion & Laws of Great Brittain & this your Province the
Example and Rule of his Government
May It please Your Lordship It is out of a deep Concern &
hearty Zeal for your Lordship's Honour and Interest that we
have thus presumed (not to direct you) but humbly inform
you & lay before you the true State of these your Affairs
being Jealous least your Lordship's Indulgence to Roman
Catholicks who have in such publick manner declared them-
selves Enemys to the happy Establishment of the Crown of
Great Brittain & your Protestant Governmt here should by
any means lay your Administration obnoxious to the Censures
of his royal Majesty upon whom under God the Security &
Safety of your Religion & Governmt depend or should in any
wise alienate from you the minds and Affections of your
Protestant People here

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We heartily and sincerely pray that infinite Wisdom &

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