Tliat the next morning your Memorialist waited on the said Committee and requested of them a Copy of the petition of the said William Bull and others, and of the Order appointing the said Committee, wliich after some Hesitation of the Chairman, they allowed your Memorialist to take by his Clerk, wdiich Copys tho' the said Chairman refused to sign it, were examined by the said Cap* Livermore, in Presence of tlie other Members of the Committee, k which your Memorialist has ready to produce to your Excellency. That thereupon your Memorialist read the Copy of the said petition in the hearing of several persons, some of whom were his Tenants, & most obstinately opposed to your Memorialist's Interest. That after your Memorialist had read tlie said petitition he asked his s- Tenants, what induced them to sign the same, who answered that they had not signed it. Wliereupon your Memorialist asked them the Reason of their Names beingsubscribed to it. To which they replied, they could not tell. For that they had never petitioned for any of youi* Memorialist's Land but for Lands lying to the Eastward of his East Bounds Whence your Memorialist conceives that his said Tenants knew notliing of the said Petition, whereof he had obtained a Copy as abovesaid, but that it was a Contrivance of some unjust persons belonging to the said Massachusets Bay Colony to distress your Memorialist, by making use of his said Tenants names in order tlie more effectually to obtain tlieir'End with the Government of the Massachusets Bay Colony.