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for that the king did grant by patent the clerk of the parliament, so that 

 they were uneasily overruled. The reason of my doing this was from 

 their having an opinion that the votes of the house should be kept a se- 

 cret from me, and their passing a vote the former sessions, that to raise 

 money, and dispose of the same, was a right inherent in the assembly, 

 of which I had no notice, in some fourteen days after, from any of them 

 or their speaker. 



I much urged the whole assembly freely to argue, in the presence of 

 the council and their own members, for the reasonableness of the matter 

 commanded by the king, that, upon their discoursing it openly and freely, 

 they might be the better convinced of the necessity of their being dutiful 

 therein : but none of them in my presence and the council's, would un- 

 dertake it j so we left them, and the body of laws with them. 



Some days they spent in reading over again the bod) of laws under 

 the great seal left with them $ but rejected the many arguments I had la- 

 boured them with, and threw all the laws out again : whereupon they ap- 

 pointed a committee to draw up an address, to be presented by me to hi 

 majesty on their behalfs: and in that time, with the council, I drew a 

 bill of revenue indefinitely, and gave it myself to their speaker j but 

 that bill had no better success, but was rejected also. 



Upon this, on the i^th instant, the speaker and assembly being sent 

 for to attend me in council, to shew cause why they did reject the bill of 

 revenue so framed by us in pursuance of his majesty's pleasure therein, 

 they gave me no answer j but by their speaker, desired to present to me 

 their address, the speaker contending to give it its due accent by reading it 

 himself; a copy whereof is here sent inclosed. 



This address is founded greatly upon the advice of lieutenant. colonel 

 Samuel Long, chief-justice of the island, and one of the king's council, 

 who principally contends for the old frame of government, of whom the 

 assembly is highly opiniated, and esteem him the patron of their rights 

 and privileges as Englishmen, who had a hand in leaving the kind's name 



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out ot the revenue bill, being then speaker, and denies not his having a 

 hand in framing and advising some parts of the address, which in whole 

 is n.ot truth ; for, 



ist. Whereas, they allege that the civil government commenced in my 

 lord Windsor's time ; it is generally known and recorded in our council- 

 book, fifteen months before, in colonel D'Oyley's time ; and will be 

 proved by Sir Thomas Lynch, who then himself had an occasion of a 

 trial by jury, the foreman of which was colonel Byndloss. 



