for it.

To the Seventeenth concerning Mr Grahams insinuation

Mr Santen is in the right that Mr Graham is Attorney-general @ supervisor of all Patents @ soe made upon Mr Rudyard's going from this place to Barbadoes @ is a person understanding in the law, it being his whole business

Wherefore I thought it not fit to pass any patents without his

perusal least I might doe prejudice to the King.

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still continue

It is likewise true that I have called in former patents

to doe so, that I might see by what Tenure they hold their lands, which I find genepaying noe acknowledgment to the King Whereupon being convinced of by the resolution of y e Judges the people for their own ease @ quiet @ that of their posterity which otherwise might have fallen under the lash of succeeding Governors, without the least murmuring have renewed their patents with a reservation of a certain Quit-Rent to the King to the noe small advancement of his Revenue, @ this done with general satisfaction @ of which none will in the least complain but on the contrary express themselves thankful for it rally to be by none, they

that defect

Mr Santen sure when hee wrote this article against mee did not consider the obligation that was upon us both to advance the Kings interest in our several stations, far less how inconsistent it was with his office to bee the only pson aggrieved at the advancement of his Mat ys revenue, when the people themselves that are concerned are not only satisfied but pleased with it