Your Petitioner therefore implore Your Most Sacred Majesty to take the premises into Your princely consideration & to give such orders therein as well for the preservation of the Six condemned persons & the relief of Your Petitioner & other Poor Sufferers, as also for the preservation & future good Establishment of the said Province, as to Your Royal gOGjdness & wisdom Shall seem meet

And Your petitioner as m duty bound Shall ever pray &c

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Sir, -- I cannot but admire to hear that some Gentlemen still have a good Opinion of the Late Disorders committed by Captain Jacvb Leiskr Si, his Accomplices, in New York, as if they had been for his Majesties Service & the Security of that Province ; & that such monstrous falsehoods do find Credit, That the person before in Commission, & did labour to oppose & prevent those disorders were Jacobites, or persons ill affected to the happy revolution in England, But it has been often the Calamity of all Ages [to] Palliate Vice with false Glosses, & to criminate the best Actions of the most virtuous & most pious men -- So that the truth & Inncency, without some defence, has not proved at all times a Sufficient Bullwark against malitious falsehoods & Calumnies, wherefore I shall endeavor to give you a true & brief Account of that matter, As I myself have been a personal Witness to most of them --