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U. H. J.
No. 734
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would not Condescend to own the Fact, nor be pleased to deny it,
nor even endeavour to satisfy this House, how or in what manner
it happened But only declares their Intention of not treating This
House or any member of it " but with the greatest Decency and good
manners And that if any thing had happened which seemed to have
a different Appearance it was not designed " This Compliance being
founded upon a Supposition or Doubt not only whether the Fact
Asserted by this House was true or false; but even whether there
was any Want of Decency or Good Manners, if it was true, This
House could not look on those Declarations of Decency and Good
manners and want of Design either as a sufficient Apology or
Vindication for the ill Treatment shewed to them For had the late
Lower House thought fit to have only denied the Fact, This House
could most fully have made it Appear But if the Fact had been
owned True this House might reasonably have expected from the
Late Lower House an Apology for what they must have Acknowl-
edged had a different Appearance from Decency and Good manners
and by that Means have freed this House from any Apprehension
of the like Treatment for the future, Whereas on the Fact of that
Message A Question is made not only whether the Fact was true,
but also whether if true it had such a different Appearance, so that
this House could not be Assured that the next Member would not
have received the same Usage since the Lower House did not
Acknowledge such Usage Contrary to Decency and good manners
The fourth Paragraph takes notice of " Messages being intended
to be sent by this House for the future by their Clerk, and the Lower
House expressly declare that they should be very well Content with
it and follow our Example in sending all their Messages by their
Clerk."
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p. 20
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After this Possitive Assurance from the Lower House of their
being very well Contented with Messages being sent by the Clerk
of this House We could not but have a true Satisfaction and Pleasure
in our Prospect of Carrying on the Publick Business and accord-
ingly Prepared a civil and suitable Answer to the last Message and
sent the Same by Our Clerk, was refused Admittance; Notwith-
standing- which This House still earnest and desirous to dispatch the
publick Business was willing to impute this Unexpected Refusal of
Receiving Messages by our Clerk to any Cause or Accident, rather
than to a determined Resolution of Contradicting what had been so
Expressly Promised by them in their last Message and therefore sent
the Clerk Again the next day who waiting an Hour at the Door after
he had given the Proper Officer Notice of his having a Message
to deliver from this House was Obliged at last to return without
being Admitted to deliver such Message upon which this House
finding an entire Stop put to the Communication of the Two
Houses and to the publick Business made their humble Applica-
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