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A Message from the Lower House by Mr Crabb and Mr
Courts as follows (viz.)
By the Lower House of Assembly November the 4th 1725
May it please Your Honrs
There would be no more Unreasonableness in your expect-
ing another Allowance from the publick than in ours if we
had one Allowance already rais'd for us by the Country, and
expected another as you do. If you be at a loss to find
Unhandsome usage in your own Messages towards us, it
must at least be owing to your forget fullness or Oversight. It
seems even by your Message of Yesterday, as if you thought
the Treatment we Complained of before, as unhandsome
and insulting was yet too good for the representatives of
yourselves and the people in this Legislature; or otherwise
we cannot think you would have so considerately insisted that
we deserved the Character you gave us of being an Obstinate
people and Obstinately Adhering to our opinions; if you had
intended to have Expressed yorselves in A parliamentary way
we are sure you might have found Softer Terms: But if
you were resolved to stirr dissentions you could not well
have Chosen rougher to Express Your Sense in. We Com-
plained of this as ill Treatment in yor forms, But now by this
Message Yor Correspondence itself becomes vexatious; You
fully Satisfie us by your latter that when in your former
Message you seem'd displeas'd with us, for Saying you were
only Assistants to the prerogative it was not a Mistake which
we at first neglected as one but by yor more considerately
reflecting on it and repeating the same thing in yesterdays
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