592 Assembly Proceedings, April 5-22, 1720.

L. H. J.

things as I now am by a petition put into the Lower House,
and the parties so Scandalizing and Accuseing will not bring
those things to the Test I can't Conceive how I am to do myself
Justice without a Manifest breach of the Oaths I have taken &
I cant but think myself a meer pageant of paistboard while I
sitt in those Stations and must Suffer such Barbarous affronts.
Good Sir, Give me leave to tell your Excellency, that I am the
son of a father that I am sure would never have made me the
better for a penny he had acquired in the World, if he had
thought I had poorness of Spirit to Suffer such usage where
this party of People (for they are but a party tho I fear a
very formidable one) has Encouragement to use men in Pub-
lick Stations at this rate I don't pretend to judge but must do
your Excellency the Justice (as I am Shure the world will) to
declare I am well Satisfyed it is not from you and Since Ex-
perience tells us the Government is not to Right men in things
of this Nature, Necessity obliges me to make it my most
Humble Request to your Excellency that you would be pleased
to put so favourable an Interpretation on this as not to look

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upon it, out of any Disrespect to your Administration that I
Humbly Begg you will discharge me from all Offices I am now
Concerned in, which I shall always most Thankfully Acknowl-
edge as a great favour, as I did and doe your Excy conferring
them on Your Ex^cys
Most Obedient & humble Servant
I Can't but think myself Tho. Addison
at present, in the
Condition of a man whose hands
are tyed to be Buffeted.

Bill for Relief of Benjaman Howard read the first and Sec-
ond times by Speciall Order and will pass, which was So
Endorst and Sent to the Upper House by M^r Warfield and
Cap^t Dollahide.
They return and Say they Delivered it.
Moses ffaudrie in the Custody of the Serjeant appeares as
also the Secretary and the Clerks of the Severall Offices with
Madam Sarah Lloyd the Petitioner.
Thereupon the said ffaudrie is discharged paying fees.
This House are desirous to Know what security the Secre-
tary has given for the Execution of the Land Office and
Ordered the following Message be prepared viz:

By the Lower House of Assembly April the 13^th 1720.
May it please your Excy and Honours
This House being Informed there are Sundry Misfeazances
Committed in the Land Office, wherein is Concerned the most