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Message, we have reason to believe you designed it as an Oc-
casion of difference; In yo^r Message of the 29^th of October

last you Construe our words and say they Imply, that you
went about to hinder us from Preventative Justice and then
you use this Construction of your own, as a foundation
whereon You build abundance of Accusations against us, but
in the Message of October the 28^th last seconded by Yester-
days you are not Content to construe our Message as best
Suits your Temper But you are pleased to Add a word of yo^r
own to it, and from that very word of your own adding, to
take Occasion to Accuse us: we said in our Message you
seem'd to be Assistants to Prerogative; had we said you were
not no doubt you would have been offended but we happened
to be so happy in our Expression that you could find no Cause
to Cavall with us on it, without Adding the Word (Only) to
it, therefore not to slip any opportunity of wrangling with us
you are pleased to add the word (only) Charging us with
saying you were only Assistants to prerogative, and from
the very word you will Multiply Accusacons. Does this look
like friendly dealing with us or pursuing the Business of the
Countrey or does it rather tend to confound it ? Is it Agreeable
to your proposal of Avoiding Unnecessary debates or rather
an Indication that you are resolved not to do your duty as an
Upper House until you should be wrongfully paid as Coun-
sellors by Your Countrey. As you misrecite one of our
Messages in two of Yo^rs by an Interpolation of the word
(only) in it so you do likewise in the Message you Complain
of as well as in that of October 1723, where you say we
confess You cannot possibly come at the Support rais'd for
you. If you can find any words in those Messages that will

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bear such a Construction, you have some pretence of Jus-
tice in yo^r Charge but as there are none such Your Usage
is unfair and tends only to Involve us in tedious Searches
after the truth of what you argue from. You are appointed
and intrusted by prerogative, We by the people; give us leave
to make the distinction and to mind the Discharge of our
own Trust in relation to the Bills we propose which we
Expect to be Sent us from yo^r house According to yo^r
promise, that we may be ready to Close the Sessions. We
are resolved to take what further from you (Your sense of
good Treatment will Allow you to offer to us) that no pre-
tence of delay in the Dispatch of Business may lye at our
doors
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

Which is ordered to lye on the Table