Your Petitioners hauing duly weighed & considered the contents thereof, & finding it to containe many False & scandalous reflections, Esteem it our indispensible Duty, Humbly to represent to your Hon's That what moneys p"" said Trustees haue Lately ■ been raised to defray the Pubhck & necessary charge of this Town, was grounded on a very Just & unexceptionable bassis, and also been Judiciously appropriated to such pious & advantagious uses as are absolutely essentiall to the promoting Relligion, the adauncement of Learning, & securing the Pubhck Peace & Tranquillity of this Town : And that tho' represented to yo^' Honr^ as a greuious imposition ; yet from Time to time, wee haue freely and volentarily paid our respective assesments of all those Publick charges.
Your Peticoners therefore Humbly prays, that in regard yo' Hon^s haue unworthily been imposed uppon, and tliat these Complaints are groundless, as well as extreamely mallicious, That yoi" Hon's in yo^ abundant Wisdom & Justice, will take such prudent & effectuall measures, as that innocency may be protected, The deuices of our aduersaries exploded, & tlie vniuersall Peace & fellicity of this Town, County & Gouernment most happely promoted & Established to the Honi" of iUmighty
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God, & the vnexpressible Joy & satisfaction of all his Maj^s most Dutifull & Loyall subjects : And yo^ Petitioners (as in duty bound) sliall euer pray.
Hy Smith John Tooker
Wm Sen Richard Clark
Anthony Green
Thorns Hulse
John MaxweU
Robart Stedman