I tliouglit my selfe bound in duety, & from the High Respects I haue of your Excellencies Dignity & vpon good Advice, voluntarily to make my Appearance before yor Excellency in New Yorke & haue waited yor pleasure to this Day in order to yor Excellencies satisfaction, & haue submitted my selfe to yo"^ Excellencies Censure, and knowing yo^ Excellencies Clemency am emboldened humbly to Craue yC Pardon, of what through any Error in my Apprehension I haue giuen occasion of offence to yo^ Excellency my Intentions being Riglit in whateuer proceeded from me att that tyme; and that yo^ Excellency be graciously pleased to remitt the Penalty imposed, k what fees may be exacted vpon me before the tyme of my being sumoned to appeare before you & y^ Hon^bie Councill, considering the grea^ charge I haue beene att for about 3 wxeks time since my comeing Irom home this being the first tyme (for almost fourty years of my being a minister of the Gospel) that I haue beene called to acxjompt by any Authority I haue lined vnder, or giuen any cause for the same, nor needed at this tjrme had there beene y' fauorable construction of my words as they deserued. So hoping as God hath got you as a father over this Comonwealth, so you will exercise a fatherly compassion towards yo"^ humble Petitioner, who hath & shall continue yo^ Excellencies humble Orator att the Throne of Grace, & stand euer obliged to yo'" Excellency in all hearty affection, & duetifull * * * [Here a wwd or hw are illegible in the original copy.]