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Alienation fines on Devises of Lands as contrary to the Express
condition and Words of Our patents
We have many other Aggrievances besides what are here
Enumerated but because it might be too Tedious to mention them
particularly in this Address we have caused the several Reports of
our Committee of Aggrievances concurred with by our House
together with our Address to your Lordships Governor and other
proceedings on the same Head to be laid before your Lordship to
which We beg leave to refer and by the Perusal whereof your Lord-
ship may be at large Informed
We must acknowledge it to be a matter of great concern to us
that we are Obliged to make An Application of this Kind to your
Lordship and flatter ourselves that it will be so disagreeable to your-
self that by removing these Aggrievances you will prevent the neces-
sity of the like Trouble for the future nor can we forbear reminding
your Lordship that it was in a great measure under God owing to the
Bravery of Our Ancestors and the many dangers and Hardships
they suffered that this your province was first Settled and to the
Labour and Industry of them and us that it has been brought to the
perfection it has arrived to and your Lordships Estate and Income
therefrom hath risen to the considerable Value it now is of; And
as that Settlement was made by the Subjects of Great Britain in
confidence of and dependance on that part of your Lordships
Charter whereby it is ordained and provided that all persons trans-
ported or to be transported into this Province their Children and
Descendants should be Denizens and Lieges of the then King His
Heirs and Successors and in all things to be held treated Reputed
and Esteemed as Liege faithful People of the then King his Heirs
and Successors and Enjoy all Liberties Franchises and Priviledges
of the Subjects of England We Cannot but think it extreamly hard
that any Attempts should be made to deprive us their descendants
of those Rights Liberties and Priviledges as plainly appears to be
done in the Instances here mentioned
We therefore most Earnestly Intreat your Lordship to relieve us
from those Aggrievances too heavy and Oppressive for us to bear
and we can with Confidence assure you that as we always shall be
peaceable faithful Subjects to his Majesty so you shall find us Dutiful
Tennants to your Lordship and willing and desirous to promote
your Interest and pay you every thing which of Right appertains to
you
Ordered that the aforesaid Addresses be not delivered to the
printer to be printed or published
M^r Clayton appears in the House to day
Edmund Jenings Esq^r and Col^o Gale from the Upper House ac-
quaint M^r Speaker in the following Words, that the Governor
finding by your Address just now presented to him that no Business

L. H. J.

Lib. No. 45