So in tliis Case I was prcsecu'ed contrai-y to tlie Form of the Grant of the Quit-Rents, and the Custom of the Colony, if not a Breach of the Instructions fn-m the Crown and the Decree of Chancery. So it was said, Tliey were at 5 /. 10 s. Giarge, to compel me to ride 130 Miles fo pay them Twenty Shillings, I being near Seventy Years of Age. By the Grant, the Trustees are the only capable Persons to act ;Mjd do all things in Reference to the Corporation, and every particular

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Freeholder, not being a Trustee, hatli not any thing to do witli the Money of the Corporation without tlieir order.

It was tlie Peoples Pleasure to chuse me to be their Representative to sit in tlie General Asseniblyj to assist in having the Government carried on I'or their Majesties Benefit and Good of the Subjects. In the Year 1714, upon the 2d Day of April^ I made a Speech in the House, putting tliera in Mind of some ill Measures that I was informed were taken, and to set things in their true Light, tliat Justice and Riglit might be done amongst us. There was a Discourse of liaving it Printed, but the Question was not put ; however a Coj)y was desired and taken, wliich was printed. That Assembly being dissolved and another chose, who ext)cl'd me out of the House upon t]ie 2d Day of June, 1715, about that Speech. The next Week the'Supream Court sate, and there was an Indictment draAvn, charging me with an High Misdemeanor, acting contrary to my Duty of Allegiance, in manifest Contempt of his Majesty, and the Governour of these Provinces under His said Majesty, and against tlie Peace of Our said Lord the King, His Crown and Digtjiry, and against the Form of the Statutes made and provided : Whereupon the said David .hncso.!^ who, Sfc. f )r our said Lord the King, prays the Advice of tliis Court in tlie Premisses, and that the said Samuel Muffoj-d be attached by his Body wheresoever, Sfc.