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.

The Constable of Jamaica was Lawfully displaced by us, and flined for not Doing his Duty ; and another Constable j^ut in his stead, who appointed Coomes his Deputy -, he was not appointed by the Justices, but we do not know that Coomes has misbeliaved himself in that office. Besides the Depositions here Inclosed Diverse other Credible Witnesses were sworn before the Jury of Inquiry, and particularly M^" Justice Whitehead and M^ Justice Clement, who were Eye Witnesses of a great part of the Action.

The petitioners might have been ffined on the View of the Justices, But in favour to them, and that they might have no manner of reason to Complain of any hasty, or otherwise severe way of proceeding ; This of doing it by a Jury was made use of. This Jury Consisted of some of the most principal men in the County, as well for Estates as Honesty ; and if many of them were Church-men, we cannot tliink them the Less Capable of the office for that reason. None were forbid to speak or would if they had any thing proper to say. And we do not remember that Mr Clowes made use of any such argument before us as is mentioned in the Latter end of the petition.