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( 5 ) November. the 15th. Anno Domini: 1690. 9ber ye 11th. 1690. } - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Comr. Present. Coll. David: Browne. mr. ffr: Jenkins. Capt. Jno. Winder mr James Dashiels mr. James: Round. mr. Samll. Hopkins. mr. Edmund. Howard. ---------- To the worll. Court the Petition of Samuel: Hopkins Senior humbly sheweth - - - - - - - - That whereas Walter: Taylor plaintiffe did Aug.s last obtain a judgmt. of Court against ye petioner deft which judgmt (as your petioner hath valuable reasons to conclude) was the product either of a most unforable, weake, ignorant and precipetant: or else of an erronious, partiall and arbitrary judgement verdict of a Jury condemning your petioner in the payment of twenty two yards of linnen wch linnen your petioner hath brought before your worships, humbly beseeching you will be pleased to give your opinions and final result as to the paying thereof, And in due submission likewise proposing as a query by you seriously to be weighed & consulted, whether my being compelled to pay the said linnen contrary to bargain: for nothing: and before any becomes due to be paid, will not appear a monstrous sort of injustice: and inconsistant with: if not repugnant unto all law, reason & equity your petioner further offereth his lying under the harsh and ridged circumstancers of one most apparently and unjustly molested & agrieved by the said Walter: Taylor, besides the real injuries and dammages sustainedf by his perfidious fraudulent dealings allready, and by what may be yet further dealt out to him by execution, if your worps should not reasonably and prudently prevent. All this and the sence thereof, moves me in all humble boldness to urge and excite you as you stand related & are impowered and betrusted by God and a Religious Protestant Prince, whose cause you have expoused and by whose authority you act, and under whom you now Serve and are each one, and all of you obliged to dispence to every equal justice and right, that you will vouchsaife to take such judicious and effectual Course (as I conceive) you are in duty bound and ought to doe, to exonerate and acquit your petioner of my unsufferable wrongs and injuries Susteined as aforesd & yr. petioner shall (as in duty bound) ever pray &c. Samuel: Hopkins This Petioner in the next place becomes an humble suiter to your worps that ye will be pleased to give him leave to make good his sd complaints & averments both as to matter of fact and matter of law and that in the doing thereof. he may go on with freedom and without interuption (as a weake and feeble Capascity will afford him) in this endeavouring to make things clearly appear and as briefly and as he can,not to spend too much time of your worships, and as in duty bound shall pray &c. Ordered pr Court to record ye abovesd} Samuel: Hopkins - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To the worshipfull Court: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The next thing I humbly propose and move, is your worships is the signing my Bill of exceptions against the verdict of the Jury in my case, and judgmt, as reasons why execution ought not to Issue forth against me, except (notwithstandfing what hath been offered as fair & reasonable to obviate the Court of the pernicious consequences inevitably ensueing to me thereupon) they should resolve to make themselves chargeable with my wrongs, the which, I dare not be so wretchedly inn charitable as to give the least measure of Credit to conjecture that they will, but hope and expect the contrary, as from those that do abhorr and detest to designe my detriment nor wittingly to declare my Sufferings or to Conive, or extennuate my abuses Susteined. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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