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enforcing whereof, they are subjected to the Determination of a
single Judge in a Court unrestrained by the wise Rules of the Com-
mon Law, the Birthright of Englishmen, and the Safeguard of their
Persons and Properties.
The invaluable Rights of Taxing ourselves, and Trial by our
Peers, of which we implore your Majesty's Protection, are not, we
most humbly conceive Unconstitutional; but confirmed by the Great
Charter of English Liberty. On the First of these Rights the Hon-
orouble the House of Commons Found their Practice of Originating
Money Bills, a Right enjoyed by the Kingdom of Ireland, by the
Clergy of England, until relinquished by themselves, a Right, in fine,
which all other your Majesty's English Subjects, both within, and
without the Realm, have hitherto enjoyed.

With Hearts therefore impressed with the most indelible Char-
acters of Gratitude to your Majesty, and to the Memory of the
Kings of your Illustrious House, whose Reigns have been Signally
distinguished by their Auspicious Influence on the Prosperity of the
British Dominions, and convinced by the most affecting Proofs of
your Majesty's Paternal Love to all your People, however distant,
and your unceasing and benevolent Desires to promote their Happi-
ness, We most humbly beseech your Majesty, that you will be
graciously pleased to take into your Royal Consideration, the Dis-
tresses of your faithful Subjects on this Continent, and to lay the
same before your Majesty's Parliament, and to afford them such
Relief, as in your Royal Wisdom their unhappy Circumstances shall
be judged to require.

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will pray.

The Memorial to the Lords in Parliament, was Read and Com-
pared, and is as follows, viz.

To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of
Great-Britain in Parliament assembled.

The Memorial of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the
Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations,
New- Jersey, Pennsylvania, the
Government of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon
Delaware, Province of Maryland,

Most humbly Sheweth,

That his Majesty's Liege Subjects in his American Colonies, tho'
they acknowledge a due Subordination to that August Body the

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British Parliament, are entitled, in the Opinion of your Memorial-
ists, to all the inherent Rights and Liberties of the Natives of Great-
Britain, and have ever since the Settlement of the said Colonies,
exercised those Rights and Liberties, as far as their local Circum-
stances would permit.