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The delays and length of time, alleged by them in reference to the 

 model prescribed by his majesty, were wholly occasioned by the refracto- 

 riness of the asjembly, and not by the distance of places, or other 

 reasons. 



What they object concerning Ireland, in reference to Jamaica, is fri- 

 volous ; since the English there have right to the same privileges as 

 those of Jamaica, and are bound up by acts of parliament in England, 

 as well as the inhabitants of Jamaica. 



To the 7th objection it is replied, that nothing has been done to take 

 away their enjoyment of all the privileges of English subjects, since they 

 are governed by the laws and statutes of this realm. 



Their unwarrantable proceedings in obstructing of justice against 

 Brown the pirate is confessed, and his majesty's pardon prayed by them. 



Their lordships think the imprisonment of Martyn, and the articles 

 preferred against him, altogether unjustifiable, not only as he was his 

 majesty's collector, but as the assembly ought not, by the pretensions of 

 privilege, to shelter themselves from justice, there being no such usage fn 

 Barbadoes and other plantations. 



In the gth place, it is altogether erroneous in the assembly to think it 

 is, by the present model, in their own power, to accept such laws as are 

 wholly of benefit to themselves, and to reject such as are most necessary 

 for his majesty ; since the governor yet retains a negative voice, after the 

 consent of the assembly. 



.And whereas they very much insist upon his majesty's proclamation in 

 ray lord Windsor's time : his majesty has not in any instance with- 

 drawn the effects of his promise to them, nor imposed several rules and 

 instructions that were prescribed in Sir Thomas Modyford's commission 

 and instructions, whereby he had power, with the advice of the council, 

 to raise money on strong liquors : and the assembly can as little believe 

 they have not provoked his majesty to keep a strict eye upon them, after 

 their several unwarrantable proceedings during the government of the lord 

 Vaughan, and since, of the earl of Carlisle, by their votes and other- 

 wise. 



In the last place, it is falsely insinuated by the assembly, that the go- 

 vernment remained under an army in colonel D'Oyley's tim*i j since it 

 appears plainly by his commission, that it was otherwise provided, and 

 that the martial law was then laid aside : so that, upon the whole matter, 

 they have reason to beg his majesty's pardon for all their errors and 

 ra is takes. 



