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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To his Grace, His Majesties high Commi&s;&s;ioner, and the Right Honourable the E&s;tates of Parliament.
<HI>Mr. Allexander Higgins</HI> of <HI>Craigforth,</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat where <HI>John Callender</HI> having given in to your Grace and Lord&s;hips a &s;econd Pe|tition, either contradicting in a mo&s;t calumnious manner, the matter of Fact re|pre&s;ented in my Petition, or telling a Story, that doth not at all meet with his Ca&s;e; which is done indu&s;triou&s;ly to amu&s;e the World, and to alleviat the gro&s;s Crimes, and ab|&s;urd Practices, that are proven again&s;t him: Being the ordinar remedy that Malefactors u&s;e in the like Ca&s;e, till the very Sentence be pronounced again&s;t them: But I being <HI>in Libello,</HI> founded upon a Probation already adduced, the half whereof is &s;ufficient to pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cure a War|rand to pro&s;ecute a Criminal, for putting &s;uch unaccountable Tricks upon the Publick. It is hoped with all &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, that no &s;uch Impudent denial of the true Matter of Fact, can put a &s;top thereto; And if your Grace, and the Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, will be plea&s;ed to ordain the Sub-Committee upon that Affair, to compare the Depo&s;itions and o|ther In&s;tructions with what is repre&s;ented by me in my &s;aid Petition, it will be found, that I have u&s;ed very much Precaution, that I might not exceed the true Matter of Fact; and if it &s;hall be found otherways, I am willing to &s;ubject my &s;elf immediatly to the mo&s;t &s;evere puni&s;hment that can be thought upon: So that it is humbly expected, that your Grace and Lord&s;hips will think it the Concern of the Publick, that your Petitioner acting in a Publick Capacity, by virtue of His Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion, this matter &s;hould be put to a &s;peedy tryal, which will both vindicat me, and make his fore&s;aid Petition a con&s;iderable aggravation of his Guilt, in &s;tead of having the &s;ucce&s;s that he mo&s;t fraudulently de&s;igneth <UNCLEAR>by</UNCLEAR> it.</P>
<P>In the next place, the &s;aid <HI>John Callender</HI> (to compleat his Cavelling in his &s;aid Petiti|on) maketh a Counter-charge of &s;ome pretended Crimes again&s;t your Petitioner, <HI>viz.</HI> the Suborning of Witne&s;&s;es, and granting double Rights: But to demon&s;trate that the&s;e Sham Calumnies are mo&s;t ridiculous, and u&s;ed by him of purpo&s;e, to divert the cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice again&s;t him&s;elf. I not only heartily comply that he &s;hould in&s;i&s;t again&s;t me, but al&s;o, that (in ca&s;e I be found guilty in the lea&s;t of what he hath the groundle&s;s impudence to a&s;&s;ert) the puni&s;hment due by the Acts of Parliament to &s;uch Crimes, may be doubled again&s;t me. Neither &s;hall I offer (in compen&s;ation of this fal&s;e Accu&s;ation) to mention his manner of dealing with privat per&s;ons, both of the Nobility and Gentry, which is &s;o much noi&s;ed abroad through the Nation.</P>
<P>May it therefore plea&s;e your Grace, and the Honourable E&s;tates of Parliament, to ordain the &s;aid Sub-Committee to compare the fore&s;aids Depo&s;itions, and o|ther In&s;tructions, with my fore&s;aid Petition for my Vindication: And if their Lord&s;hips have not time to determine the matter them&s;elves, during this Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, To remit to the Lords of Ju&s;ticiary the Criminal part of that Pro|ce&s;s; And to the Lords of the The&s;aury and Exchequer, to &s;tate and conclude the compt and Reckoning, according to the de&s;ire of my fore&s;aid Petition,</P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioner &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CLOSER>
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