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not only to the present age but to posterity that we are good
Subjects good protestants and hearty Lovers of our Country.
Signed p Order M Jenifer Cl. Lo: Ho:

M^r Moses Fodry appears according to the order in the
morning in the Custody of the Serjeant but the debate thereof
is referrd till Monday next.
Esq^r Hall and M^r Lowe from the Upper House delivered
M^r Speaker the following Message and papers Viz.

By the Upper house of Assembly, April the 9^th 1720.
Gent.
His Excellency haveing Communicated to This House the
papers herewith Sent you It seems to us by the Letter of the
Honourable the Commissioners of the Customs that our late
Address to their Lordships concerning the aggrievances the
people of this Province Laboured under in the Prosecutions
of Maurice Birchfield Esq^r against them has not been so Intel-
ligibly Stated, as to give their Lordships nor the Commission-
ers a right Conception thereof.
We therefore Recommend that, That address be again,
Inspected, that wherein we have heretofore come Short of
an Ample State of that matter it may be now Supplyed.
Signed p order John Beale Cl: Up^r Ho:

M^r Speaker
I Desire you will acquaint the house that I inclose you a
Copy of a Letter from his Majestyes Commissioners of the
Customs Directed to the Right Honourable the Lord Guil-
ford. The first part of that Letter Contains an Answer to
your address of Grievances (in which I had no part). It lyes
therefore on the Assembly to Answer for themselves, But I
cannot help Remarking I am very Ill treated in that Letter on
the Representation of a Gentleman who has already been but
too much a favourer of a faction here as has been made ap-
parent, by a Member of your house, M^r Rousby, to the Com-
missioners of the Customs. This I speak from my own Knowl-
edge haveing Seconded that Gentlemans Remonstrance to
them, with Letters to my friends, the Success of which is
Evidently known. I say I am Ill treated, when because you
complain of Grievances to your Country, an Occasion is taken

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from thence to accuse my Character, tho, I thank God it Can
be only [on] Misrepresentation and in Generall Terms Yet the
Conclusion of the Commissioners Letter Seems to Levell
Directly at my Administration in the Chancery Court, for I
am no further concerned in the Recovery of the money and