For punishing Governors or Commanders in C'.iief, for Crimes by them committed in tlie Plantations : But let the Governors for the time being demand of the People what they please, and th.e People take Care to help them to it, lest they be subpenaVl to the Court of C'loncery at JSTew-Ycrk, wliere the Governor is Judge whetlier he shall have his Demands, and pay Court Charges into V\e Bargain : But if according to the Constitution of English Government, then by the Common Law, what Estate every Subject possesseth, is deemed to be his Property, and is not to be taken from him by due Course of Law, which is by his own Consent, the Lawful Judgment of his Peers, or the Penalty for the Breach of some Law : And I

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know not any tiling t'lat I have done confrary to Law and Cus!(»in, tiideavoiirjig to do my DiUy to the Kljig and Country, MS I'iiv i\s I was capable, find to have Justice and Right drne. And I !:n.>w not aii}' just Cause or good Reason, why I should be V]Uri mo\'S'ed and desti-oyed. So I am Ibi'Ct'd to come to this C.wV: of Groit Erilr.in^ to seek Re'iei'lbr my sell' and others who eni])i(^y('d m-', which I hope will be took into Consideration, that I ma, l^e dis'jharged and freed from unjust I'rosecution, and my Se.curi ! ii-s indemn' jy'd , and a final Determination setled thereupon for a Pu')li<-k Good.