138 Assembly Proceedings, April 22-May 10, 1718.

U. H. J.

complish their Ends in your Removall and Obtain a Successor
more Pliable to their Intrigues (which we Pray God Prevent)
would at last faile them for we who have so long enjoyed the
Happy Influence of a Church of England Governm^t Cannot
easily give it up to Papists while wee are blest with a Prot-
estant King on the throne of Great Brittaine and a Protestant
Proprietor under him to Govern us, whose Justice and Good-
ness we have Amply Experienced by rejecting their Com-
plaints by Continueing us under the Imediate Admrcon of
your Excy so hearty an Espouser of the Present Establish-
ment both in Church & State.
Wee are not Ignorant of the Plotting uneasy and revenge-
ful temper as well as proud and Turbulent Behaviour of M^r
Macnemara ever since his first Comeing into this Province
but more Especially since he has had the Oppertunity to

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Insinuate Himself into their Lordships Good graces which we
are well Assured he never could have done if their Lordships
had been as well Acquainted with his Conversation and Char-
acter, as we are of which when their Lordships shall be
truly Informed, we doubt not but he may have Less Cause
to boast of their Repeated favours.
Wee have considered what your Excy has been Pleased to
lay before us as the Cause of Your suspending him from
Practising in the Chancery Court and are of Oppinion that
the Act of Assembly of this Province has Invested a Sufficient
Authority in all the Courts of it not only to admitt but also to
suspend Attornys Or other Practitioners of the Law from
Practiceing in them upon their misbehaviour, Which the sev^ll
Courts are the Proper Judges of without the Imputation of
being both Judge & Party.
But if the Authority of any of his Lordships Courts should
be Abridged in this Part it would be Impossible for them to
Preserve such Decorum as is Absolutely necessary in Judiciall

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Proceedings but Render his Lordship's Authority in the Per-
sons of his Judges Lyable to the Reproach of every mercenary
Tongue, And as we Take it M^r Macnemara by his so much
Insisting upon having the Right Honble the Lord Guilford's
Letter to him Intered in the Proceedings of the Chancery
Court seem'd to have some hopes he might be supported in his
Practice in that Court without being Obliged to Shew it due
Respect an use that we dare say his Lordship never Design'd
should be made of it
Thus we have faithfully and Impartially Considered what
your Exc^y has been Pleased to lay before us And think our-
selves Obliged to Return our humble thanks for the Assurance
you have given us of [y]our steady Resolution to Support the