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branches of the powers and authoritys he has been pleased to
grant you by his Comission for the Government here, and
which you formerly so worthily Exercised under the Crown
and particularly that relateing to the navall office which by the
laws of great Brittain and his Matys Royal Instructions are
positively lodged in your Exncy but more particularly that those
powers and trusts should Contrary to the Known laws as well
of great Britain as of this Province be wrested from your
Exncy, and intrusted in the hands of Papists who have refused
to qualifie themselves for the execution thereof by takeing the
oaths appointed by our Acts of Assembly and that whilst your
Exncy according to the duty of your Station is doeing his Lord-
ship the Lord Proprietary what we take to be most eminent &
acceptable Service by Endeavouring to obviate their Encroach-
ments upon the Governmt and Constitutions here we are given
to understand, that it is by their subtile Insinuation your
authority is so much diminished that you have been obliged
to write to his Lordship and his Noble Guardian to beg leave
to be recalled since you conceive you can, no longer serve his
Lordship not only in regard to your honour and Character but
in that you have it not in your power to oblige many persons to
forward his Lordships interest upon any Emergent occasion
those offices and trusts not being in your disposal whereby to
recompence their services.

L. H. J.

It is a great grief of mind to us and therefore wee shall not
faile to address his Lordship the Lord Proprietary and his
Noble Guardian and lay before them the unhappy Conse-
quences of your Exncys removall the very thoughts whereof
strikes such a Damp upon our Spirits that wee are scarce able
to Express the miserys wee may well fear are so likely to
break in upon us by an Inundation of popery and Slavery
should our adversaries prevail against us which wee have
already (by their obtaining those Comissions) too much reason
to be apprehensive of

Wee beg your Exncy will always retain a Just sense of out
grateful acknowledgements for the Civill and Just Treatment
you have been pleased on all occasions to afford us but more
Especially for your Supporteing the protestant Interest in this
Province against which and your Exncy's person and fortune
may no Sinister Artifices or Evill devices of your and out
Enemys ever prevail. Wee are Sr with much affection and
Sincerity —

Yr Exncys Most obedient humble Servts
Sent up Ingrossed to the Upr House by Mr Bordjey,

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