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then next in order to give them an opportunity to proceed in a Court
of Equity to Obtain Relief upon the said Articles of Agreement so
insisted upon by them as they should be advised yet the Government
of Pennsylvania very soon after seemed to imagine they had a right
to determine by Violence what your Majesty had so lately given your
Royal Directions About and which then was and still is depending
in your Majestys high Court of Chancery by your Majestys Royal
Indulgence to the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania
That several Germans and Palatines being arrived some time ago
in these Parts of your Majestys Dominions in America made their
Applications and requests to this Government for the Liberty of
Seating and Settling with their Families on Lands within this Prov^s
which desires this Government not only thought reasonable but the
People so deserving Encouragement that several Considerable
Quantities of Land lying on the Borders of this Province adjoyning
to the Province of Pennsylvania were allotted and Assigned them
for their Residence and Support under the Authority of this Gov-
ernm^t & accordingly not Less then fifty or sixty families of that
nation immediately took Possession of these Lands and paid their
Proportion of the Taxes and demeaned themselves in every other
Respect as Peacable subjects to your Majesty and unquestionable
Inhabitants and Tenants of this Province until very Lately when
through Unwariness and too much Credulity they suffered them-
selves to be prevailed on by the Emissarys of Pennsylvania under
Pretence of more than ordinary advantages to renounce openly their
Submission to this Government & to declare their Resolution to
transfer their Obedience to the Government of Pennsylvania and in
order to account for this their extraordinary proceeding they de-
clared their unwillingness to Contribute towards the maintenance
of the ministers of the Church of England by Law established in
this Province or to Conform themselves to such Laws and Rules
for the regulating the Militia as this Province in their Legislature
has thought expedient and necessary for their Safety and Defence
against any Foreign Enemy Which the said Emissaries among

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other things promised they should be entirely [free] from in consid-
eration of their withdrawing their Obedience from this Government
So Surprizing a Behaviour endeavoured to be Justified by such
Pretences so Greatly alarmed this Government with the Dangerous
Consequences which might ensue not only to this Province but to
every other Part of your Majestys Dominions in America that they
thought their then indispensible Duty required their utmost Care
to disabuse these deluded People to make them sensible how much
they had misbehaved themselves as Subjects to your Majesty for this
purpose the Proper Sheriff of the County had orders as well to
demand and levy on those inhabitants their Just Proportion of the
Legal Taxes due to this Province as to apprehend & secure so many

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