70 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

U. H. J.

ings of our Houses of Assembly We can truly say it on our
Parts that We have always studied to speak our Sentiments of
things after that Great Example but with all defference that
is due to the Lower House of Assembly and have made it our
particular care altho' We could not Always Agree with you in
opinion that we would never offend in Point of Good man-
ners which We think inseparable to our Character and the
most Effectual means for the dispatch of All publick Business
If Your House had always had the same Regards to us or
to the necessary rules and Usage of Parliament for the
preservation of such good Correspondency there would have
been no Room for questioning whether those freedoms which
you have taken in your message of October the 27^th by Col^o
Mackall and five others was becoming you or no for as it is a
fundamental Right Inherent to both Houses of debating

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approving or Rejecting whatsoever is propounded by the
other House we could never have imagined that our not giv-
ing directly into your measures as to the draught of the Oath
laid before us by M^r Attorney General would have drawn
upon us such undeserved Calumnies as those of having In-
verted the Order and end of our Office of Consulting his
Lordships Pleasure more than his Interest and lastly of hav-
ing neglected to give his Lordship the necessary advices upon
the late Address transmitted to him by your House Certainly
when you consider the thing you will have Just Reason to
Acknowledge that such Unhandsome Reflections never had
no Other foundation than Groundless Jealousy and the meer
mistakes of your House for to say nothing of the first two
which yet tend to a manifest breach of that good Corre-
spondency which Ought Always to Subsist between the two
Houses we may with a great deal of Justice Complain that
Impossibilitys are made to be a part of our duty
Gentlemen You must needs confess that you forget your-
selves sometimes and Give us Room to Believe that the Pre-
cipitancy of your proceedings is the Natural Result of your
Zeal for the Good of your Country which however you are
so sanguine in the pursuit of that you never once considered
whether the Address mentioned in your Message came to our
Hands or no. We Assure you it did not and that it remained
a Mystery to us until the publication thereof in Print as to
the Substance of it, Altho We had before been beholden to
Common Fame for the truth of the Fact. We are sorry to find
the Lower House of Assembly so far mistaken in Policy as
well as in Prudence of Government as to Believe We had
failed in our duty by postponing the Innovation which We
have found in the form of the Oath to be advised on by the

Lord Proprietor who by the help of the best Lawyers in Eng-