Jind be it enacted^ by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said several convictions, judgments and attainders of the said Jacob Leisler, deceased, Jacob Milborne, deceased, and the said Abraham Governeur, and every of them, be and are repealed, reversed, made and declared null and void to all iptents, constructions and purposes whatsoever, as if no such

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convictions, judgments', or attainders, had ever been had or given;

and that no corruption of blood, or other penalties, or forfeitures

of goods, chattels, lands, tenements, hereditaments, be by the said

convictions and attainders, or either of them, incurred, any law

usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

"One agent of Massachusetts framed the Bill, while the other sat as Chairman of the Committee, whicl* reported it." Chalmers.

D» INCREASE MATHER TO GOV. DUDLEY.

[1 Hist. Coll. Mass. iii.] Boston Jany 20.

^' I am afraid that the guilt of innocent blood is still crying in the ears of the Lord against you. I mean the blood of Leisler and Milburn. My Lord Bellamont said to me, that he was one of the committee of Parliament who examined the matter ; and that those men were not only murdered, but barbarously murdered. However the murdered men have been cleared by the King, Lords, and Commons. It is out of my province to be a judge in things of this nature. Nevertheless, considering what the proper judges, who have had an impartial hearing of the case, have said, and what the gentlemen who drew up a bill for taking off the attainder from those poor men, have written to me about it, I think you ought, for your family's sake, as well as your own, to lay that matter to heart, and consider whether you ought not to pray as Psalms, k! 14."