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mara in this Court and having Sufficient Evidence of his
Insolent behaviour at sundry other Times in this City Tending
to the Division of the Queen's Peaceable Subjects therein,
And Contempt of the Authority of this Government, Do
humbly Request in behalf of the body of the Freemen and
Inhabitants of this City that for the Preservation of the Peace
of the s^d City, and Keeping a Good Understanding amongst
us, That the said Thomas Macnemara may from henceforth
not be Suffered to Appear as Councill or to Plead as an At-
torny in the said Court, And we also humbly Desire that this
Court wou'd be pleased to Represent to the honble Col^o Charles
Gookin our present Governour, & Councill the Insolent Be-
haviour & Contempt of the s^d Macnemara That He may be
thereby persuaded to Disable the said Macnemara from ap-

U. H. J.

pearing in any Court as Councill or Plead as an Attorny in
this Province as the neighbouring Governour of Maryland
We are Inform'd hath already done there, which as it will
undoubtedly Tend to the Peace of this Place and Government
will Consequently Oblige us to Desire the long Continuance
of the Present Government over us, nothing being more
Acceptable to us than Peace, nor nothing more Justly detested
than all Insolent Persons who Endeav^r to break the same and
Consequently in Time Comit greater Evills.
Sign'd p order with full Consent of the s^d Grand Jury

Scale of the Clement Plumstead foreman
Mayoraiity Robert Assheton, Recorder

Att a Court of Comon Pleas held at Philadelphia for the
City and County of Philadelphia the second day of June in the
year of the Reign of our Sov" Lady Ann Queen of Great
Brittain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c the
Eighth Annoq D^mi 1709, before Joseph Growden, Samuel
Finney, George Roach Ric^d Hill & Nathaniel Stanbury Esq^rs
Justices of the s^d Court.

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Memorandum

That amongst the Files & Records of the said Court it is
thus Contained
Wee Having Taken into Consideration the Insolent Car-
riage and Behaviour of Thomas Macnemara from time to
time in this Place whereby he has Rendered himself not only
obnoxious to the Country in Generall but has been Particu-
larly Represented as of such behaviour not only by the Grand
Jury, but Generall Assembly,

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