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U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
May 17
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Magazine, Go on Noble Sir in this Great work that you as by your
Zeal Direction and Constancy have hitherto Mastered all Difficultys
& overcome Impossibilities that Presented themselves in the Enter-
prize so you may in the End Obtain a Glorious Triumph over the
Enemies of our holy Religion, then will the Glory be Ascribed to
none but you, to whom it will be most Justly Due. It now remains
to Return you my humble thanks for the Great honour you do me in
Believing me faithfull in the trust committed to my Charge, as also
to let you know what Measures have been taken here and how far
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we are advanced in Our common Cause that you may be the better
able to form your Designs in Order to bring this work to a final
Conclusion the Gentlemen Recomended to you have accepted their
Commissions and as an acknowledgement of the Honour you Do
them they have Entered into a Solemn Engagement either to Perish
in the Enterprize or to Pursue every man to Destruction that opposes
your Just Proceedings, and in that Resolution to Persevere untill
the Roman Catholicks are Restablished in their former Tranquality ;
In raising men and Money I have used all necessary Precautions to
Prevent Discoveries and to that Purpose have caused all the Priests,
in the Respective Congregations over whom [they preside], to Exhort
their People often to Confession and then to Examine them how they
stood affected to the Plott, and after Examination to bind them to
Secrecy according to the form in such cases Provided under Pain
of an Anathema: and then to take a Memorandum of all those
whose hearts the Lord Stirred up to Engage either in Person or in
Purse in this Blessed Design which from time to time they have
Delivered into me and which I have sent to you Inclosed in a List by
the Bearer but what is Like to Augment our small forces as much
as any thing is the Proceedings of the Last General Assembly at
which Poore People are much Dissatisfied Particularly those who
are much in Debt (which is the unhappy Circumstances of too many
in this Province) for the Burgesses not Considering the Benefit of
the People whom they Represent have made a Warehouse Law, and
such a one in all its Circumstances, that it not only Deprives them
of every future Advantage that may arise thereon but there is a
Clause inserted under Pretence of Enabling People to support the
Charges of the said Law by a Reduction of Twenty five p Cent from
Tobacco Debts which seems to be Done on Purpose, and serves for
no other End than to set Creditors on the Backs of Poor Debtors to
Use them with more Rigour than ever, from which Proceedings
many well foreseeing the Unhappy Circumstances they must inevi-
tably fall under, there is no Doubt but they will Joyne us as some
has already Done raither than fall a Sacrifice to such a Law: and
Poor Prisoners finding no Door of Mercy can be Opened upon any
Consideration offered by them either to their Creditors, or to the
House of Assembly there is no Doubt but they,will Extricate them-
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