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is, the persons of such strong and able petty-felons, 

 who, in true penitence for their crimes, shall implore 

 his majesty s mercy and permission to expiate their 

 offences by their assiduous labours in so innocent 

 and hopeful a work. 



For by this unchargeable way, my lords, have I 

 proposed to erect the academical fabric of this 

 island s Solomon s House, modelled in my new Atlan 

 tis. And I can hope, my lords, that my midnight 

 studies, to make our countries flourish and outvie 

 European neighbours in mysterious and beneficent 

 arts, have not so ingratefully affected your noble 

 intellects, that you will delay or resist his majesty s 

 desires, and my humble petition in this benevolent, 

 yea, magnificent affair ; since your honourable pos 

 terities may be enriched thereby, and my ends are 

 only to make the world my heir, and the learned 

 fathers of my Solomon s House, the successive and 

 sworn trustees in the dispensation of this great ser 

 vice, for God s glory, my prince s magnificence, this 

 parliament s honour, our country s general good, 

 and the propagation of my own memory. 



And I may assure your lordships, that all my 

 proposals in order to this great architype, seemed 

 so rational and feasible to my royal sovereign, our 

 Christian Solomon, that I thereby prevailed with 

 liis majesty to call this honourable parliament, to 

 confirm and impower me in my own way of mining, 

 by an act of the same, after his majesty s more 

 weighty affairs were considered in your wisdoms ; 

 both which he desires your lordships, and you gen- 



