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in Concurrence with Your Excellency and the Upper House in
such measures as shall be thought most Proper and Effectuall
for the Securing and Continuing so great a good (as this by
Experience is found to have been) from the Time of the
Expiration thereof as it now Stands till the End of the first
Sessions of Assembly that shall happen after the twenty ninth
day of September next.
And here we Cannot pass this head without again returning
our hearty Thanks to your Excy for your Care and Dilligence
in Inquiring into and makeing your Just observations from
the wrongs done the late Lord Prop^ry in the Collecting and
from the manifold inconveniences and Difficulties the Ten-
ants then Laboured under in paying the Quitt rents, and for
the redress of both the Expedient you proposed of Adding six
pence to the Eighteen pence p hh^d formerly Given to be in full
Satisfaction for the whole Quitt Rents and Alienations Fines,
which has Proved Equally so Advantageous to his Lordship
and Easey to the Inhabitants, And tho it seems to be attended
with some difficulty for us to make a Just Comparison between
the Value of the Rents that have been Collected before, And
the Sumes that have been paid his Lordships Agent on that
Account Since the Comencement of the abovementioned Act
yet we doubt not but that his Lordship whose Interest herein
is so much Concerned and who has a better opportunity for
so doing than we have will soon discover the difference And
the great Advantage accruing to him from the Latter.
When we Consider and Reflect upon the many Attacks and
unnatural Rebellions made and raised in Great Brittain by
Papists & their Adherents as Dangerous to the full it not a
more dangerous Enemy than themselves ag^t the Person and
Government of his Most Sacred Majesty King George (whom

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God long preserve) we the Less wonder at the unwearied and
restless Attempts of the Papists and their Adherents to dis-
quiet and render your Excy uneasie in your Adm^rcon of the
Government here who has always with so much Zeale and
Resolution Exerted Your Authority in the defence of our
present happy Protestant Constitution in Ascertaining our
Christian Liberties and Privileges in punishing such as have
dared in an Open manner to Attack the former and by your
Wisdom Speciall care and Diligence have hitherto disap-
pointed and rendered all their More Private machinations and
Contrivances ag^t Both ineffectual.
It is no small griefe and Concern to us to observe the ill
Treatment your Excy has mett with from time to time from
the Party which is too Obvious under their Pretence of having

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