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of the protestant interest the Establishment of the present Government under our Sovereign Lord & Lady King W^" & Queen Mary &c -- & the Strengthening against all foreign attempts, of this confused City & Province, thbught it a very serviceable Act that our poore endeavours should not be wanting in any thing that was needful for the Support of ourselves & posterity hereafter whereby we must confess & often times against our will several enormities have been committed from the day of our first undertakings until the arrival of his excellency the Honorable CoF Henry Sloughter. who now for his Majesties Sake, we love & Honour & often times, durmg our unhappy abode in power longed to see that a periode thereby might be put to such distracted orders, as then were raging all of which some we must Confess on our side hath been committed through Ignorance some through a Jealous fear that disaffected persons would not be true to the present interest of the Crowne of England some peradventure through misinformation & misconstruction of People's intent & meaning, some through rashness by want of Consideration, & then through passion haste & anger, which According to orders for to declare would take up more time than present can be afforded, however for every such offence, seeing there is no recalling of the same, or possibillity of given further Satisfaction, first of the great god of heaven & then afterwards of the several offended persons, we humbly begg pardon & forgiveness, desiring them every one with a Christian Charity in our graves with us to bury all malice, hatred & Envy that therein might be incurred & further before God & the World here we do declare & protest as Dying Sinners that we do not only forgive the greatest & most inveterate of our enemies, but According to that most Excellent patron of our dying Savieur. we say to the God of Justice, father forgive them for they Know not what they do & so farre from revenge we do depart this world, that we require & make it our dying supplication to every of our relations & friends & acquaintences, that they should in time to ' come for ever be forgetfull of any injury done to us or either of us, so that on both Side, that discord & dessention (which by the devil in the beginning was created) might with our dying sides be buried in oblivion, never more to raise up to the inflamation of future