116 Assembly Proceedings, August 11-16, 1737.

U. H. J.
Lib. No. 33

to his Trial in this Prov^s and the late Governour of Pennsylvania
was so sensible of this being the Truth of the Case that he often
declared the Owner of the House ought not to be accountable for that
mans death and those Concerned in the Government of Pennsylvania
are so well Satisfied of the said Cresaps And his fellow Prisoners
innocence that during eight months imprisonm^t there has been no
Prosecution against them nor any Legal Opportunity Given them
to shew their Innocence and only groundless Slanders raised
Against the poor unhappy man and his fellow Sufferers to furnish a
Pretence to Deprive them of their Liberty and to Violate the Laws
securitative of the Rights of a British Subject

p. 503

This being the melancholy Scituation of many of your Majestys
Subjects who have been ruined and Deprived of their Liberty & of
others who are in danger of the like Rigorous Treatment from a
Neighbouring Government and people who under the Specious Pre-
tence of peacable Principles of Religion have used the most subtle
Arts to incroach into the Limits of this Province and have not
Scrupled to Excite Bold and desperate men to commit the most
Deliberate Cruelties upon several of your Majesties Subjects & to
Countenance protect and reward these their instruments at the same
time that they have pretended they would not encourage the Vio-
lences committed or the Authors of them and your Majestys Sub-
jects who have the honour of having any Share in the Administra-
tion of the Government of Maryland conceiving it to be their un-
doubted Duty to use all possible endeavours to preserve the Lives &
secure the Peace of all your Majestys Subjects & even to avoid
repelling force with force but in the most humble manner to have
recourse to your most Sacred Majesty and to implore your Pro-
tection & defence We most humbly beseech your Majesty to take the
Sufferings of your Majestys Subjects who are & long have been
deprived oif their Liberty in the manner already mentioned & such
others of the Inhabitants of this Province as are in danger of the
like rigorous Usage into your Royal Consideration & to vouchsafe
to grant them Such Relief as to your Majesty in your Royal Wis-
dom shall seem meet
Your Majestys most Gracious Condescension in hearkening to
these Our complaints must the more (if possible) inforce Our
inviolable duty in praying for the Blessings of Length and Happiness
to your Majestys Reign and an ever Continuance of the Crown in
a succession of the illustrious House of Hannover Whose chief Good
is placed only in that of Mankind & more Especially of us Subjects
amongst the. most Dutiful & Obedient of whom we humbly pre-
sume to Declare Our selves
Sam Ogle
Signed by Order of the Upper House R^d Tilghman President

Signed by Order of the Lower House James Harris Speaker