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<P>A LETTER Sent from <HI>NEWPORT</HI> to a Gentleman in LONDON accidentally intercepted. VVherein is generally di&s;cour&s;ed, what probably will be the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of this pre&s;ent TREATY.</P>
<P>Printed in the year 1648.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WE are now a&s;&s;ured of a Treaty, though not in the way, we could have wi&s;ht; his Maje&s;ty however &s;hall be able to do his work by it; had it proceeded as it was fir&s;t contrived, we had done our work to pur|po&s;e; the De&s;ign was excellent, making u&s;e of almo&s;t all Intre&s;ts; yet in the clo&s;e, it &s;atisfied ours only; but 'tis ea&s;ier to contrive then to act, e&s;pecially in things of this nature, where wi&s;e men mu&s;t De|&s;ign, and fools Execute: In tho&s;e great Tragedies, where all the Players cannot conceive their parts, and have leave only to gue&s;&s;e the Plot, 'tis hard to make them take their Hints aright, and conceal all motions &s;o as that they may in their due time di&s;&s;olve at once: there was never any bu&s;ine&s;&s;e better de&s;igned, nor more|unhappily carried on, that a man would think (were it po&s;&s;ible) that Heaven favored Rebels and Sectaries, again&s;t Maje&s;ty and Loyalty.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Error was, to imploy &s;uch unfit in&s;truments, that Buffoon taking upon him to head the Kings Army in <HI>Kent,</HI> took off, and dulled the edge of many a gallant Cava|lier, who &s;corned to be Commanded by &s;uch a Coxcomb: And for the next, who&s;e folly quite &s;poiled our De&s;ign, and lo&s;t brave Gentlemen, the wor&s;t of whom, was much more worth then him&s;elf, had he come back to his friends in <HI>London</HI> that night that he rendezvouzd at the Hare-Warren, he had &s;urpri&s;ed the Parliament men, given opportunity to all the Kings friends in the City to appear, and had been a number too great for the then &s;tate of the Parliament to deal with, and might thus have made u&s;e of one piece of the De&s;ign after it was dis-joynted, to have attained the ends of the whole; but he mu&s;t needs go to &s;eek out an Enemy ere he was any thing con&s;iderable, as if he had de&s;ired to be beaten, and had brought Gentlemen together to be undone; and he &s;ped as might be expected.</P>
<P>For the other Gentleman, he pro&s;pered as he u&s;eth to do, and which any man might have foretold without going to a Witch; he is none of <HI>Mars</HI> his &s;ons, fighting is not his Trade, his Genius inclines another way, for a cheat or a perjury (if he meet with cre|dulous guls) he hath no peer; he is not much pitied for his lo&s;&s;e, his Maje&s;ties Cau&s;e would have gained little by his victory, con&s;idering that now he mu&s;t get it alone &amp; ex|ceed the part appointed in the De&s;ign, it being never intended by us, that he &s;hould contribute farther than that Nation hath hitherto done, in a Negative A&s;&s;i&s;tance and Lying Reputation; or that he &s;hould come &s;o to &s;ignalize his merit, as to open a wide Gate to court preferment for him&s;elf, and the re&s;t of that beggarly people, &s;poyling us the rewards of our &s;ervices and &s;ufferings by Monopolizing all places of Honour and Profit, it being impo&s;&s;ible to defend any again&s;t the approaches of their impudence; its well he is beaten, and if our re&s;erves carry it, (as we much doubt not, having divers of them to relieve each other) we &s;hall have a great advantage thereby again&s;t tho&s;e ragged Ra&s;cals, with whom we are re&s;olved to reckon for by-gones of ten year old.</P>
<P>But that which indeed gave the Fundamentall blow, was the ill mannage of them that were appointed to ride the A&s;&s;izes which being now your part, you mu&s;t take heed of tho&s;e Rocks, upon which 178 and 329 wrecked their Negotiation: For your better in&s;tructions, you &s;hall have the <HI>Epitome</HI> of the former Plot, and &s;ome hints of our pre|&s;ent intentions, and how far we &s;hall make u&s;e of the remaining fragments of our la&s;t w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">, wherein I &s;hall not need <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> curious, in the Circum&s;tances, becau&s;e you were
<PB N="2" REF="3">often pre&s;ent at the Debates, and the cau&s;e of your then imployment, hath given you &s;ufficient knowledge of it.</P>
<P>You know that it was i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">tended by all means to get his Maje&s;ty to London for a per|&s;onall Treaty, that the City had prepared &s;everall Counties to Petition for it, that no|thing &s;hould be put into the Petitions, but barely his coming to London, expedition and convenience were only to have been urged for effecting of it, &s;ub&s;criptions and ap|pearances &s;hould have been full, nothing but re&s;pect to be manife&s;ted to the Parlia|ment, nothing but civility in them that brought the Petitions, nothing of force &s;hould have appeared till the King had come, the Citizens &s;hould have undertaken the guard of the King and Parliament that none of the Army might have any pretence to be neer the City, and they that were in it, were to be removed.</P>
<P>A whole week &s;hould have been &s;pent in Complement and Formalities, and large ge|nerall promi&s;es to have wrocked all a&s;leep, mean time the Kings friends from all places &s;hould have come to Town where (you know) cour&s;e was taken to arm them; the greate&s;t part of the Army was &s;o di&s;per&s;ed over the Kingdom, as that it &s;eemed no ea&s;ie thing to bring them to a Rendezvouz. At the beginning of the Treaty, the King &s;hould have made difficulty of granting any thing that might have &s;tood in his way af|terwards, but as yet denied nothing, leaving place for a credulous hope; and &s;ome of his party &s;hould have per&s;waded tho&s;e that were be&s;t affected to the King of the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners, for the Treaty; that the King would grant all at length, whereby the delay would have been un&s;u&s;pected, and the good hour waited for. Mean time he &s;hould offer tho&s;e plau&s;ible things that were then drawn, which &s;ignifie nothing, only prefac'd with tender expre&s;&s;ions of his &s;en&s;e of pre&s;ent &s;ufferings, and conclude with generall promi|&s;es, by this time the Town had been full of the Kings friends, the <HI>Scots</HI> ready upon the borders, and now all the Counties &s;hould have brought in their Petitions, then the City &s;hould have begun to tumultuate, the &s;hips (which you know were prepared before) &s;hould in this nick of time have declared, &s;ome threats &s;hould have been given out a|mong&s;t the Reformadoes, again&s;t the Grandees, and the rabble of the Petitioners taught to rail upon them, this would have cau&s;ed the &s;toute&s;t of them either to with|draw, or hold their peace; what the King would have plea&s;ed to offer, had been pa&s;&s;ed by his friends in both Hou&s;es, put into Bils, and pa&s;t; the King thus without any diffi|culty reinthroned, the Parliament at his will, he would need no better in&s;truments to do his work, and the City at his di&s;po&s;e the Kings-Bench Court had been filled, one of the Ju&s;tices is as fit for his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice as any that can be put in; and now the let|ter of the law being for the King, and his Declarations and Proclamations remaining in force, a Commi&s;&s;ion of Oyer and Terminer would &s;oon have delivered his Maje&s;ty from the fear of his mo&s;t active and dangerous Rebels, who&s;e e&s;tates, with the plunder of the City, would have made us ample &s;atisfaction for our lo&s;&s;es, and given &s;ufficient reward for our &s;ervices; all this would have been too quick for the Army; as then quar|tered, to prevent.</P>
<P>This you know was the De&s;ign, but the violence of 178 e&s;pecially, who&s;e part it was to act with 329. to put on the City to Petition for a Per&s;onal Treaty, inflamed it to a tumult, e&s;pecially by the means of tho&s;e furious prating A&s;&s;es, &amp;c. and 137. and others of the reverend Common Councel, who brought the people into a tumult too &s;oon, by which they did the&s;e irreparable mi&s;chiefs: Fir&s;t, They cau&s;ed the Countreys to grow warm too early, and in confidence of a&s;&s;i&s;tance from the City to di&s;cover them&s;elves, thinking to execute that De&s;ign by force, which &s;hould have wrought out it &s;elf at ea&s;e
<PB N="3" REF="3">by a little more practi&s;e, and as the Emi&s;&s;aries in &s;everal Counties, had more or le&s;&s;e pre|pared them, or better or wor&s;e in&s;tructed them, &s;o they run out into in&s;urrection &s;eve|rally, going generally from the Genius of the De&s;ign, and yet with corre&s;ponding by a Conjunction of Councels, and Forces, to carry it on their own way; by this they gave occa&s;ion for &s;o much of the Army to meet together, as have &s;erved the turn to ruine them all in parcels whereby the hopefulle&s;t De&s;ign that ever was contrived for his Maje&s;ty &s;ince the beginning of this Rebellion, is de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>And indeed by the way I &s;hall tell you, his Maje&s;ties Affairs cannot thrive &s;o long as this Army, or any part of it &s;tands; the truth is, that they are &s;uch men as are equall match to double their number; but though we cannot beat them, yet we may ea&s;ily out-wit them (for that's not their Trade) if our Emi&s;&s;aries act hand&s;omly, for their re|&s;olution makes them open, and they &s;ee nothing till they come to fight with it; but of this I will tell you more, and what part you are to play in it, but this is too long a Di|gre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>The other mi&s;chief that came to the De&s;ign, by the too early tumultuating of the &s;cum of the City (which would have done well at the time apointed) that it put the Parl. upon thoughts of their &s;afety, and made them con&s;ider under what guards they &s;hould &s;it here: whereas had they pur&s;ued their Petition for a Per&s;onal Treaty in <HI>Lon|don,</HI> upon the rea&s;ons above-&s;aid, and continued this gravely, and &s;hewed that they had a power over the multitude by &s;upre&s;&s;ing tumults, and per&s;wading the people, the Par|liament had never asked them how they &s;hould be a&s;&s;ured of &s;afety under their guards; not they &s;tand like &s;o many mute Block-heads, not able to give a &s;atisfying an&s;wer, indeed (as they had ordered the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e) it was a que&s;tion not to be an&s;wered by them; and thus they put the Treaty from <HI>London,</HI> which if they had not done, by this, the King had been glorious again, able to reward his friends, puni&s;h, his Rebels after the example of the King of <HI>Spaine</HI> in <HI>Naples,</HI> who hath wi&s;ely in&s;tructed all Princes in the true way, of quieting Rebellions for the pre&s;ent, and of preventing them for the time to come; the Neapolitans willing to be quiet, and being weary of the warre they had but lately begun, treated about peace, the King denies them nothing, but grants all they ask, whereupon they receive his Viceroy, and put all their places of &s;trength into his hands, of which he was no &s;ooner po&s;&s;e&s;t, but he drew the &s;word of ju&s;tice, and upon one pretence or another, one by one, cuts off all the&s;e Rebels that were any thing active, and hath thus drawn more blood from them in this &s;hort while, &s;ince the pacification in a cour&s;e of ju&s;tice, then in all probability he would have done by ma|king warre upon them.</P>
<P>But this maine plot is broken, which co&s;t &s;o much &s;weat and watchings in the contrivance and blood and trea&s;ure in the execution, only there remaine &s;ome few planks of this &s;hipwreak, which we will make the be&s;t u&s;e we can in carrying on the re&s;t, for we will not quietly enjoy our lives which God gave us, to be &s;pent in his Ma|ie&s;ties &s;ervice, when ever he &s;hall plea&s;e to call for it, till he become Ma&s;ter of the&s;e Rebels, and indeed, having obtained this Treaty he hath gain'd his point, and will come to his end which way &s;oever he takes: for there are now three wayes prepared, and they have all been in debate and it is not yet re&s;olved in which to walke, till both the Commi&s;&s;ioners be ta&s;ted here, and that you, and the 433 do &s;end us the re&s;ults of your negotiation with the Members of the Hou&s;es, and with tho&s;e Aldermen, and Common Coun&s;el men, &amp; other active men in the City to whom you were directed to apply your &s;elves, by your la&s;t in&s;tructions &s;ent by <HI>F.W.</HI> who is appointed to call upon
<PB N="4" REF="4">you as he comes from the Head Quarters, whither he is &s;ent to try if he can worke upon 350. for if he pur&s;ues his point well with him, and &s;et him right, we need no more but him for the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Army in order to the hou&s;es in generall; but for their &s;peciall friends there we have that on foot already in the Army how to &s;eparate them and them; and to the carrying on of that <HI>BQ</HI> is appointed at the head quarters, <HI>D.L.</HI> is gone to <HI>Cromwell I. L. I H.</HI> and &s;ome others are to put it forwards in <HI>London, B.Q.</HI> will acquaint you with it, and you may do well to farther it, as you have occa&s;ion, but take heed, or with whom you d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ale with in it, le&s;t it interfere with your con&s;tant part, and &s;o di&s;cover you.</P>
<P>Of the De&s;ignes that are on foot, the mo&s;t generally liked, is, that the King &s;hould give all rea&s;onable complyance, and grant all the Propo&s;itions if the be &s;tood upon, and this cour&s;e will be &s;trongly &s;tood upon by <HI>R.</HI> and <HI>S.</HI> (though not upon &s;ome grounds) who not having been &s;ouldiers, would faine &s;ee an end of the warrs, that one might returne to the Court, and the other to his quiet retirement; and this hath been their con&s;tant Coun&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">, all the time of their being with his Maie&s;ty at <HI>Oxford;</HI> and this is certainly the ab&s;olutely be&s;t cour&s;e of tho&s;e that are left. I know his Maie&s;ties temper is much again&s;t this; and perhaps will not be at all per&s;waded to it, if he can mend his market otherwi&s;e; the greate&s;t difficulty, will be the nulling of his Procla|mations, in ju&s;tifiing the quarell, <HI>ab initio,</HI> for thereby, he will be left without meanes, legally, to rid him&s;elfe of the Grandees, and mu&s;t be put to &s;ome other cour&s;e for it, which may not be &s;o &s;afe for his affaires in the infamy of their redintegration, and it is a re&s;olved ca&s;e, that they mu&s;t be removed, or he cannot &s;tand; others tell him, That they will he &s;afe by an act of Oblivion which is as nece&s;&s;ary to be had by the Kings party, as his enemies, &s;o long as any &s;hadow is left, of leaving the law to its owne cour&s;e.</P>
<P>For that of the Presbyterian Government for three yeares, it is as &s;imple a thing, as they that trouble them&s;elves about it; hee'l never &s;tick at that, and the people in that time will not be &s;o much in love with that bable, as to enter into a new warre for it; be&s;ides when the time is expired, it may be layed by with &s;afety enough; if his Maie&s;ty will but plea&s;e for this fir&s;t time to make the&s;e great men Bi&s;hops with an abated pow|er, to plea&s;e the people, they &s;hall both &s;tave of all the clamour of the re&s;t, and &s;erve the Kings turne as well as any and will be no great difficulty for there are many Bi&s;hop-ricks voide, and the expectants mu&s;t be per&s;waded for the Kings &s;ervice and the &s;er|vice of the Church, to content them&s;elves with Deanaries, and other &s;ubordinate dig|nities, &s;ince the iniquity and calamity of the times will have it &s;o: As for their lands, they will come in again ea&s;ily enough for the King is re&s;olved never to grant the Hou&s;e a Legi&s;lative power without him, and they &s;tand good theirs in law, and the purcha&s;ers mu&s;t be outed; this the King will &s;tand upon; and for the hou&s;es that are pulled down and &s;poiled, there are none that have bought any of that land, but they are very well able to build them up again, or otherwi&s;e make &s;atisfaction; and the people will never be &s;o mad as to make an new war at their own charge to maintain the purcha&s;ers po&s;|&s;e&s;ions of their dedictated lands, or for the Indempnity of tho&s;e few men who have been imployed in that cur&s;ed and &s;acrilegious bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; if the Hou&s;es &s;hould make a difficulty, we know our never-failing Engine; yet I think it will be no great matter to get any thing of that nature pa&s;t for very many of the Hou&s;e have not been able to buy bi|&s;hops lands, I t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ink the City Hals are the mu&s;t guilty</P>
<P>Concerning the <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">litia,</HI> they &s;ay if the King does grant it as it is de&s;ired, it will be
<PB N="5" REF="4">his notwith&s;tanding: Have you not &s;een that all the country is his? and of tho&s;e men that have appeared for him, mu&s;t the <HI>Militia</HI> be made up.</P>
<P>We have already taken care that all the Kings friends that have not &s;o far di&s;&s;olved them&s;elves, as to beare armes, are named in the Hou&s;e of Commons, to be of the Com|mittee of the <HI>Militia,</HI> if that Ordinance pa&s;&s;e, our work's done, and then are we fitted both of Parliament and <HI>Militia,</HI> for the Kings &s;ervice; therefore you mu&s;t &s;peak your &s;elfe to 422 and <HI>D.K.</HI> and let 219. and 503. &s;olicite the re&s;t of the Kings friends in the Hou&s;e, and &s;uch others as they &s;hall finde fit to be dealt with, to farther the pa&s;&s;ing of the Ordinance for the <HI>Militia</HI> and you &s;hall &s;ugge&s;t to them, in that it will &s;ave the Kingdome tho&s;e va&s;t charges that they are now at, for the maintnance, of an Army; and there can be no colour to cry downe the Army, untill this <HI>Militia</HI> be &s;etled, and then you have a great advantage again&s;t the patrons of it, for that the argument of charge is on that &s;ide; and this is a maxime, that in this cour&s;e the King can not reach his de&s;igne &s;o long as any con&s;iderable part of this Army is in beeing; but remove that, and the King is in greater power then ever he was &s;ince the beginning fo this Rebellion, as much as to all the re&s;t, he hath the addition of Parliament, that he may make or do what he lift.</P>
<P>For that of <HI>Ireland,</HI> I know not how the King will get over it, how he will be albe to deny or grant it: if he break upon that, it will ca&s;t a foul Odium upon him to all Pro|te&s;tants; if he do grant it, it will provoke the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to that, which perchance may ca&s;t as great an Odium upon him. I do not heare any thing yet &s;poken as a means to helpe at a dead lift; in this particular, time mu&s;t finde an expedient to unty this knot.</P>
<P>That of Delinquents is nothing, drive on the de&s;igne through, and the King will be able to repaire their lo&s;&s;es at the Rebels charge, and the excepted per&s;ons are out of reach.</P>
<P>If his Maie&s;tie go this way, there will not be much for you to do there, more then what I have already told you, but I have &s;ome doubt that his good fortune will not put him into that way.</P>
<P>Another way that is propounded, is, that tho&s;e overtures which were prepared for the fir&s;t de&s;igne &s;hould be in&s;i&s;ted upon now, and that he &s;hould propound alternately, and deny the Propo&s;itions of the Hou&s;es, or el&s;e to pa&s;&s;e them &s;o, as that they &s;hall be good for nothing; and then to urge to &s;end his owne, and get what he can; thus to pa&s;&s;e by the power of the Hou&s;es, and if it be dexterou&s;ly carryed, this may al&s;o do the turne, if the Army hinder not; and that it may we mu&s;t labour all we can that <HI>Scots</HI> be courted, and highly promi&s;ed, that &s;o more forces might be brought in by them, and the Fleet under the Prince go &s;traight into <HI>Ireland,</HI> to tran&s;port all <HI>Inchequins</HI> Army, and as many as may be of <HI>Taffes</HI> to <HI>Millford</HI> Haven, to whom the <HI>Welch</HI> would &s;oon flow in great numbers, and that will draw off the re&s;t of the Army, &s;o as the City will be able to force the Parliament, to pa&s;&s;e any thing that the King &s;hall plau&s;ibly offer, and not lengthen our troubles, and this to be done upon every propo&s;ition, or part of one as it &s;hall be &s;ent up; and when one or two particulars are &s;o pa&s;t, they will be ar|gument to do &s;o in all the re&s;t; and we &s;hall particularly urge here that they may be &s;ent to the hou&s;e for approbation in parcels, le&s;t the re&s;ult of the whole difference at once might &s;eem worth the &s;tanding upon.</P>
<P>Your part in this ca&s;e, mu&s;t be to ply <HI>XO.</HI> and 137. that they may &s;et their Myrmi|dons a work, both to Petition; and to be ready to come down in crouds, and clamour
<PB N="6" REF="5">peace and complyance, when you &s;hall be ready for them, and be able to take them off at lea&s;ure.</P>
<P>The Lords are already prepared when the Papers come, to pa&s;&s;e them pre&s;ently.</P>
<P>You mu&s;t &s;pecially &s;tirre up the Citizens to jealou&s;ie of &s;ome regiments of the Army coming to White-Hall, and the Mewes, to guard the Hou&s;es; we had experience of them the la&s;t time they were there, and it will never be po&s;&s;ible either to li&s;t a man, or rai&s;e a tumult, or to mould the Parliament to the Kings &s;ervice, if they be &s;uffered to come there.</P>
<P>And that you may the better &s;ilence their friends that would &s;peak for them, you &s;hall put on the Levellers agents to joyn with the Army, and publi&s;h that the Army is al|&s;o of their mindes and will act by their Principles, and this will make all their friends jealous and afraid of them: for the Grandees feare nothing more then Levelling, and Levelling be the Army.</P>
<P>The la&s;t way that we have in our eyes, is to treat indeed upon the Hou&s;es Propo&s;iti|ons, to grant what is granted by &s;yllables, to &s;pin out the time, and when the 40 dayes are ended, to get longer time, and in the meane time to &s;ee what farther u&s;e can be made of the <HI>Scots,</HI> or of new di&s;contents in the Kngdome, al&s;o what the Duke of <HI>Lor|raine</HI> will do with his forces, or whether the generall Peace of <HI>Germany,</HI> or that twixt France and Spain, are likely to come to any thing which being effected, will afford men enough, who being ca&s;t off their &s;everall imployments, need not much invitation to the &s;poile and plunder of this Kingdom.</P>
<P>Thus if any &s;uch hope appears, pretence may be made of the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of time, the inconvenience of &s;ending Papers &s;o far and wait their returns, therfore to come to <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, and from thence to &s;lip away into Holland, hoping that his pre&s;ence with the &s;hips, may put them into a better condition, and that with them, he may land his forarign forces in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and from thence begin a new war; this is certainly the wor&s;t of all, and will bring greate&s;t mi&s;ery to the Kingdom: for my part, I &s;hall nei|ther coun&s;ell, nor meddle in it at all, but I deale clearly with you, that I di&s;cerne his Maie&s;ty is more like to take his cour&s;e then any other, it hath been alwayes his ill for|tune, to be mo&s;t forward to tho&s;e cour&s;es that have been neither good for him&s;elf nor his friends.</P>
<P>I have been the longer now at the fir&s;t becau&s;e you might bee full in&s;tructed you &s;hall hereafter as the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e advances, hear farther directions for your negotiations.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Loving friend.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Newport</HI> <DATE><HI>September.</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P><HI>Take heed le&s;t you be di&s;covered, but e&s;pecially that your Papers be not &s;eized.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Veneris 1. Septembr. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Par|liament, That the Committee at <HI>Gold|&s;miths-Hall</HI> doe certifie unto this Hou&s;e on this day &s;evenight, an Accompt what Impro|priatio<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">s of Delinquents are purcha&s;ed by them, upon allowances therefore made to the &s;aid De|linquents, upon pa&s;&s;ing their Fines, and what Impropriations are in pur&s;uance thereof &s;etled effectually by Law.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. El&s;ynge Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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