Sloughter without hearing them Speak, committed them Close prisoners, who not returning as Your Petitioners father Expected he did very early the next Morning write to the said Col° Sloughter desiring him to Come & receive the fort, & according he came & took possession thereof upon the 20^^ March but presently After caused the soldiers & inhabitants in the fort & City to be disarmed & Contrary to all law & Justice committed Your Petitioner & Your

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Petitioners said Father & 26 other persons to Prison pretending they ^vere guilty of high treasson Against Your Majesty for keeping tlie said fort as aforesaid, & the said Colonel Sloughter & Ingoldesby, confiderating with divers disaffected persons to Your Majesties to put Your Petitioners Said father & others to Deatli, did in a most arbitrary & illegal manner cause him & seven others Iryed Judged & condemned to Death for some pretended high Treason Si. have since most barbarously caused Your Petitioner'? father & Your Petitioner's Brother in law, the said Milbornc to be hanged & Afterwards Butchered, the said other Six persons (if not since put to death) remaining in prison under the same unjust sentence of condemnation & have Seized the Estates & creeds and also most unjustly prosecuted Your Petitioner & many others of Your Majesty's good Subjects confiscating their estates, who for the preservation of their lives have been forced to leave the said Province, by which cruel & Barbarous practices great numbers of Your Majesty's Subjects are in danger of their utter ruin, & the Said Country is like to be depopulated & made desolate, the said colonel Sloughter being dead & the said captain Ingoldesby since his death commanding in Chief in the Said Province who doth continue to exercise great violence & barbarity Against Your Majesty's said loyal Subjects --