May it please your Excel"! to Consider the manner of our being fined occasioned particularly by means of M'^ Sam^i Clows who took upon him. to act (in the Absence of the Kings Attorney) in Court in Ms place & Implead us Petitioners for a Riot and with such success that a Jury was found all churchmen except one or two who took the notions he gave them of a Riot and accordingly found a Bill against us none but said Clowes being permitted to speak in Court to show what base partiality he acted by ]\e stllicited the Justices to fine us above what your Excel') c.iuld remitt & using this Argument that if they fined not above your Excel^ys power to remitt they did their work but by halfs

May it please your Excel^y to Consider, our distress and in your great goodness please to remitt tliese fines so imposed and your Excelcys Petitioners in this and many other respects sorely aggrieved sliall ever pray

New York May ye 6th 1719

I liefer the Consideration of tlie Allegations contein'd in the within petition, to the Judg of the said County and his Assistants or any three of them who are to repeat to me how they find them as soon as may be

Ro: Hunter

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May it Please your Excellency

In obedience to your Excellency's Orders, relating to the unsigned Petition of Daniel Bull and otliers, Haveing first retui-ned your Excellency our hearty acknowledgments of the Special favour' you have done us, in the manner as well as the Opportunity you have been pleased to give us to vindicate our selves. We pray Leave humbly to acquaint youi- Excellency That the main Articles Alleadged in the same petition are Untrue, as we Conceive will most Evidently appear by the papers of our proceedings against the petitioners, which are herewith presented to your Excellency.