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ist. It is not without the greatest presumption that they go about to 

 question your majesty's power over the militia in that island, since it has 

 been allowed and declared, even by the laws of this your kingdom, that 

 the sole supreme government, command, and disposition of the militia, 

 and of all forces by sea and land, and of all forts and places of strength, 

 is residing in your majesty, within all your majesty's realms and domi- 

 nions. 



ad. The objection made against the bill for the public revenue hath as 

 little ground, since its being perpetual is no more than what was former- 

 ly offered by them unto your majesty, during the government of Sir 

 Thomas Lynch, in the same measure and proportion as is now proposed j 

 nor can it be diverted, since provision is thereby expressly made, that the 

 same shall be for the better support of that government 5 besides that it 

 is not suitable to the duty and modesty of subjects to suspect your majes- 

 ty's justice or care for the government of that colony, whose settlement 

 and preservation have been most particularly carried on by your majesty's 

 tender regard, and by the great expense of your own treasure. 



3d. It cannot with any truth be said, that these laws contain many and- 

 great errors, nothing having been done therein but in pursuance of former 

 laws, at divers times enacted by the assembly, and with the advice of 

 your majesty's privy council, as well as the opinion and approbation of 

 your attorney-general, upon perusal of the same. 



/j.th. To the fourth objection it may be answered, that if any thing had 

 been found of moment or importance in the last parcel of laws transmitted 

 by the Lord Vaughan, your majesty's tender care of your subjects welfare 

 would have been such as not to have sent those bills imperfect, or defec 

 tivc in any necessary matter. 



5th. As to the distance of the place, which renders (as they say) the 

 present method of making laws altogether impracticable, your majesty 

 having been pleased to regulate the same, by the advice of your privy- 

 council, according to the usage of Ireland, such care was taken as that 

 no law might be wanting which might conduce to the well being of 

 the plantation, and that nothing might be omitted which in all former go- 

 vernments had been thought necessary 5 nor is it likely that this colony 

 is subject to greater accidents than your kingdom of Ireland, so as to re- 

 quire a more frequent and sudden change of laws in other cases than such 

 as are already provided for upon emergencies, or in other manner than is 

 directed by your majesty's commission ; whereby the inhabitants have free 

 Access to make complaints to your governor and council, or any defect in 



