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L. H. J,
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. shall think fitt, had more regard to their own private interest
then either to the honour or Safety of your Lordships Govern-
ment. And wee are Sorry wee have occasion at this time to
represent to your Lordship That our Governour has acquainted
us that after all his faithful services he has been able to doe
to yr Lordship and your Noble father he thinks himself so
much lessened in his Character as well as authority that he
cannt serve your Lordship any longer with Honour & Success
& therefore has desired to be recalled unless your Lordship
shall think fitt to restore him to the powers he formerly held
and exercised according to the Comission you have granted
him which if your Lordship vouchsafe to doe will oblige us to
have a grateful sense of your Lordships favour therein and
will sufficiently demonstrate to us your Lordships Justice and
pious resolutions of preserving us in our Religion Civill
Rights and libertys and will putt a Check to the aspireing
Efforts of both our secret and open adversaryes On the con-
trary the recalling (or Curtailing the powers and authoritys) of
the Governour at this Juncture cannot faile to Gratifie those
papists who have very lately soared to that Hight of Impu-
dence as to threaten his person and undervalue his power
upon his causeing a due prosecution to be made agt those
papists who had dareingly & openly drank the Pretenders
health as King of great Brittain and audaciously Cursed his
Most Sacred Maty King George (whom God long preserve)
and on the Governours absence upon the necessary occasions
of the Countrey in the night of that day on which they
Comemorate the supposed Anniversary of birth of the said
Pretender had caused some of the great Guns at the seat of
governmt to be loaden, and fired off to the terror and amazemt
of the Inhabitants and in contempt of his Most Sacred Maty
and your Lordships good rules and Governmt of this Province.
And this would no less discourage his Matys protestant
Subjects here, and so possess their minds with fear and
Jealousy's to see them selves so much Subjected to the power
of Papists and a Govr removed who has so signally Exerted
and Continues still with an unbyassed resolution to exert his
authority for the Support of your prerogatives promoteing yr
Interest rendring your Governmt most acceptable to all the
Inhabitants here Except those who are disaffected to the
Protestant Succession and interest by makeing the happy
Constitution and Laws of great Brittain and this your Prov-
ince the Example and Rule of his Governmt
May it please your Lordship, It is out of a deep Concerne
and hearty Zeal for your Lordships Honr and Interest that
wee have thus presumed (not to direct you in) but Humbly to
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