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B Y 
 
 George Fox, George Whitehead, Stephen Crisp, 
 
 and other the most Antient & Eminent RAKERS, 
 
 BETWEEN 
 
 Edward Billing on the one part, 
 
 And some West-Persians, headed by 
 
 On the other Part, 
 In an Award relating to the Government of 
 
 their Province, wherein, because not moulded to the Pallate of 
 the said Samuell^ the Light, the Truth, the Justice and Infallability 
 of these great Friends are arreigned by him and his Accomplices. 
 
 ALSO 
 
 Several Remarks and Annimadversions on the same Award, 
 setting forth the Premises. With some Reflections on the Sens- 
 less Opposition of these Men against the present Governour, and 
 their daring Audatiousness in their presumptuous asserting an 
 Authority here over the Parliament of E:NGLJND. 
 
 Published for the Information of the Impartial and Considerate, particu- 
 larly such as Worship God, and profess Christianity, not in 
 Faction and Hypocrisie, but in Truth and Sincerity. 
 
 Wo to the Rebellious Children, saith the Lord, that take Counsel, but not 
 of me, y cover with a Covering, but not of 'my Spirit, that they may lay 
 sin upon sin, Isa. 30 I. 
 
 Therefore now hear. Thou hast trusted in thy Wickedness, Thou hast said, 
 none seeth me ; Thy Wisdom and thy Knowledge it hath perverted thee^ 
 and thou hast said in thy heart, lam, andnone else beside me, Isa. 47. 10. 
 
 Therefore shall Evil come upon thee, thou shalt not know from, whence it 
 riseth; and Mischief shall fall upon thee, thou shalt not be able to put 
 it off, V. II. 
 

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 Reprinted July, 1880, by the Collins Printing House, Philada. 
 
*The Award of George Fox and other Rulers of\_ *' 
 Chief est Authority among the Quajcers, relating to 
 a Difference concerning the Government of West- 
 Jar sey, depending between Edw. Billing and Sam, 
 Jenings ; &c. 
 
 Whereas there was a late difference depending 
 between E. Billinge on the one part, & S. Jenings, 
 Tho. Biidd & G. Hutchinson, & some of the Pro- 
 prietors of the Province of West New-Jarsey on 
 the other part, concerning the Government of that 
 Province, which they did refer and submit to the 
 Judgment & Determination of G. Fox, G. White- 
 head, W. Gibson, Alex. Parker, W Shewin, Ch. Ba- 
 t hurst, Ch. Marshall, T. Ellwood, R. Whitpane, J. 
 Park, S. Crisp, T. Hart, F Osgood & W. Crouch, 
 promising and engaging to stand, abide & submit 
 unto the Judgment, Sentence & Determination of 
 them, or any eight of them, as by Writing under 
 their hands, bearing date the 31 of 5 Mo. 1684, 
 and by adjournments continued to the 11. of 8 Mo. 
 following, and no longer doth appear. Now we 
 whose Names are here-under written having duely 
 weighed & considered the matter in difference, 
 upon a full hearing of both Parties concerned, face 
 
(4) 
 
 to face, do, according to our Consciences & best 
 understandings of matters of Fact & of the several 
 Complaints, Allegations & Evidences produced, 
 understand, advise, judge and determine as follow- 
 eth, viz. 
 
 1. That E. Billinge hath, by Concessions, signed 
 by himself, with other words & circumstances, as 
 also by Letters written by Gawen Laury, Nicholas 
 Lucas &c. to the Proprietors, given them ground 
 to expect that they should have and had the Gov- 
 ernment, with the Soyl, which he not performing, 
 gave offence, and we judge they were to blame, and 
 not well advised ; for it appears something dubious 
 whether E. Billing had it then to dispose of. Coun- 
 sels opinions seeming various about it, and the words 
 
 *3 1 Powers & Governments *not being mentioned in 
 the Dukes Grant to the Lord Berckly & Sir George 
 Cartwright. 
 
 2. We find no mention made in the Concessions 
 of such mode of Government as that a Governour 
 is to be chosen by the People, but mention of an 
 Assembly and ten Commissioners. Neither can we 
 find any warrantable foundation and legal Right 
 either from the Kings Grant, or in the Conveyances 
 to the particular Proprietors from E. Billing, 6cc. to 
 justifiethem in electing their Governor, nor yet for 
 a popular Government without a single Governor, 
 
(5) 
 
 or Commissioners particularly assigned by legal Au- 
 thority, NB. 
 
 3. That E. Billinge by the last Grant from the 
 Z)uke hath the Title & Power of Government 
 legally in him, as also by the Kings own approba- 
 tion in his Declaration and Letter to and in behalf 
 of the said E. Billinge, & he cannot be divested 
 thereof but by default or by his own consent, as we 
 really apprehend. 
 
 4. That E. Billing (as we really conceive & un- 
 derstand) cannot legally sell and divide the Govern- 
 ment in pieces, parcells or piecemeals to particular 
 Proprietors, if he part with it, it must go whole to 
 a single Person, or to a certain number by Name 
 who must, as a Corporation, have" the whole of him, 
 in whom it legally resideth, and that by an entire 
 Grant or Assignment for the same purpose. 
 
 5. That whereas S. Jenings & the Assembly in 
 West-'Jarsey had positively acknowledged E. Billing 
 as Governor, and acted about two years by virtue of 
 his Commission & Power, and 5. Jenings as his 
 Deputy engaging to serve him, and preserve his 
 Interest in that Capacity ; now after all this they 
 accepting E. Billing as Governor only in Trust, as 
 they alledge, in order to have him assign his Power 
 and Government to the People, which not being 
 obtained with his consent, then they rejecting him the 
 
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 said Billing, and chusing S. Jeiiings Governor in his 
 stead, and his accepting thereof, WAS A BETRAY- 
 ING HIS TRUST, as also rejecting W. Welch, 
 since deputed by £. Billing, without giving £. Bill- 
 ing any previous Notice of these their designs and 
 proceedings against him and his Interest, These we 
 judge irregular Proceedings, Unfair and Unwarrantable, 
 Unsafe & worthy of Blame in S. Jenings and all Per- 
 sons concerned therein. 
 [ *4 ] *6. That seeing £. Billing and those of his Trus- 
 tees did give such ground of expectation as afore- 
 said, by Concessions and Letters, & also by some 
 words in some of their Deeds., that the Proprietors 
 should or might have the Government or Power to 
 elect a Governour among themselves, which if he 
 cannot legally or safely perform according to their 
 expectations, yet we all agree, that he is thereby 
 bound to perform to the Proprietors, so far as he 
 legally & safely may do. And also we judge, that 
 the said Billing ought to go so far as he is able, and 
 lawfully can in all things to their just Satisfaction, 
 by making and confirming unto them such Funda- 
 mental Laws, Concessions and Provisions, consonant, 
 and not repugnant to the Laws and Government of 
 this Realm of England, as may fully secure them 
 from all Abuses, Oppressions & Encroachments upon 
 their Freedoms & Liberties, both as Men 6c 
 
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 Christians, by and from himself^ his Heirs or As- 
 signs, according to the Contents of his own Letter, 
 dated the 15 of 8. mo. 1680. sent \vith his last Grant 
 from the Duke. 
 
 7. That seeing E. Billing hath declared that he 
 hath settled the Reversion of the Government upon 
 his Son-in-Law B. Bartlet, our advice is. That he do 
 procure his said Son-in-Law to sign, with himself, 
 such fundamental Laws, Concessions & Provisions, 
 so made and confirmed as above; and also that the 
 said Billinge do produce and shew his Concessions, 
 so made, to any 3 or more of those 14 Friends be- 
 fore named, to whom the aforesaid Difference was 
 refered, and take their advice and consent there- 
 unto, before they be transmitted to the Proprietors, 
 there to be passed into an Act or Law in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of West-Jarsey. 
 
 8. That the said S. Jenings, T. Budd, G. Hutch- 
 ison, and the rest of the Proprietors concerned, & 
 residing in West-'Jarsey, do at J)resent renew and 
 continue their due acknowledgment oi Billing, and 
 peaceably acquiesce, and quietly and duly submit to 
 his Authority and Power, as their legal Governour, 
 and receive and accept of those things before men- 
 tioned from him, and to be content and satisfied 
 there-with. All which being efffectually performed 
 
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 [ *5 ] ^y *'^h^ s^^'i ^- Billinge then the Proprietors to pay 
 their proportions of the Charge of the last Grant. 
 
 9. We finding that many Errors, Mistakes, Mis- 
 apprehensions, Mis-actings, Faults, Trespasses and 
 Offences have been suffered and done and committed 
 since the first proposal of ifihabiting & planting 
 the said Province, not only by E. Billing, but also 
 by S. "Jenings and others, therefore we do advise 
 and judge it needful that an Act of Indemnity and 
 Oblivion be provided and passed by the first oppor- 
 tunity by £. Billing and the Assembly of West- 
 'Jarsey, and that the same be drawn so full and 
 effectual that all Persons concerned in the said 
 Province may be secured from being called to 
 account for any thing done or acted in relation to 
 himself as Governor, or to thfe Government before 
 the date hereof; and that likewise therein provision 
 be made to enjoyn the Inhabitants and Proprietors 
 of the said Province not to upbraid, traduce or 
 defame the said Billing, nor he them, for any fault, 
 mistake or miscarriage done, in relation to the said 
 Difference before the date of the said Act of Obliv- 
 ion ; and that the said Billing procure his Son-in-Law 
 B. Bartlet to sign the same with himself. 
 
 10. It is our Christian advice. That no party 
 concerned in the aforesaid Difference make or cause 
 to be made any Strife or Contention therein, whereby 
 
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 the peace or Prosperity of the said Province, or any 
 Member thereof may be disquieted or hurt thereby, 
 and that all Persons concerned forbear to disquiet or 
 molest each other by going to Law, or any vexa- 
 tious Suit or Prosecution in any Courts of Judica- 
 ture for or because of the said Difference. This 
 we do solemnly leave in Charge on all Persons 
 concerned, for the holy Truth and the Name of the 
 Lords sake. 
 
 Lastly, We do in all sincerity and godly Care 
 earnestly intreat and beseech, as well as advise all 
 Parties and Persons herein concerned. That they 
 sincerely and heartily in the Name of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, and for his sake, forgt'^e one another 
 as Christians, & endeavour with one accord to root 
 out and extinguish all Feuds, Annimosities, Preju- 
 dices, Heart-burnings, Heats, Passions, Strifes and Di- 
 visions, and so blot out the very remembrance thereof, 
 that — -"^Christian and mutual Love and good Will L " J 
 may increase among you, and Truth may prevail 
 and spread in the Province and those remote parts, 
 through your faithful and Christian Examples and 
 Conversations, that God Almighty may bless you 
 with Peace, Plenty and Prosperity, and with his 
 divine Refreshments and Consolajtions in Christ 
 Jesus, according to our Souls sincere Desires and 
 tender Supplications on your behalf. 
 
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 Thus we have given our Adv'ite and Judgment 
 in the fore-going Passages under our Hznds in London, 
 the 1 1 of 8 mo. Oct. 1684. 
 
 William Sheiuin, 
 Thomas Hart., 
 Geo. Whitehead., 
 Charles Bathurst. 
 
 London, this 150/8 mo. William Crouch 
 
 when the Original 'Judgment "James Parkf.^ 
 
 and Advice of Friends was Chas. Marshall, 
 
 examined. A true Copy., wit- Rich. Whitpane 
 ness Marke Swanner. 
 
 Memorandum, ParagrafF 2d. after these words, 
 assigned by legal Authority, add theSe, viz. 
 
 N B. Neither do we understand that such a Grant 
 as was expected was attainable when the 2d Grant 
 was solicited for, whence this Sentence above cited 
 was hastily razed out of the Original, the \i of ?> 
 mo. 1 684. ' Tis our fudgment that it were better 
 and more clear to be incerted. 
 
 Observations on the fore -going Award. 
 
 Reader, Pray observe. That by the foregoing 
 Award of those eminent fakers, the Government 
 was in Billing, and not in the People of JVest-Jar- 
 sey, and S. Jenings condemned by them for Betray- 
 ing his Trust, in laying aside Billing's Commission, 
 and taking the Government on him from the Peo- 
 ple ; yet notwithstanding all this, the same Sam. 
 fenings being the leading man of that Party, & 
 
Chief in the Assembly, now sings his old Song over 
 again, and affirms the Government to be in the 
 People, thereby encouraging and exciting the Peo- 
 ple to Rebellion against the present Governour, and 
 other their lawful Rulers, to the great obstruction 
 of the Peace and Prosperity of the ^Province. 
 
 Hence it is that P. Fretwell and T. Gardner (two 
 of the said Jenings Minions and Quondam Justices) 
 have run from County to County to stir up People 
 to Sedition, and to oppose the holding of any Courts 
 by the Governours Authority, and threaten such as 
 yield Obedience thereunto. 
 
 *And hence they themselves are so perverse and [ ^7 I 
 stubborn as not to come to Court to answer for their 
 setting the Province in a flame, at the Court of Ap- 
 peals, October 1698, and for other Misdemeanours, 
 without raising Souldiers to force them along, to 
 the end that they may send these their sufferings to 
 London also, to be recorded (among the rest of their 
 Lyes) as a suffering for Truth and Religion. And 
 hence the said Fretwell, the former Treasurer, re- 
 fuses to give Account to Authority what he has 
 done with all the Money he has received of the 
 Province, and County Taxes : No, for doubtless he 
 finds it more profitable to continue his former me- 
 thod, viz. to give account to his Fellows, who ap- 
 
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 plaud him to the People, but pas^ his Accounts un- 
 examined. 
 
 And hence it is that our Sheriff and his Assistant, 
 for doing their Office at Burlington, are by the said 
 Gardiner arrested and sued at a Court in Pennsiha- 
 nia, directly contrary to the Laws and Liberties of 
 our English Nation, and a notorious Violation of 
 our antient Priviledges. 
 
 And from hence some others have been encouraged 
 to resist the Government lately at Salem, where some 
 fakers also assumed the Militia by beat of Drum 
 & Colours flying, and with Whips, Clubs and Staves 
 they forced off the Magistrates from the Court house, 
 not suffering them to keep Court (thereby stopping 
 the currant of Justice) till the Governour went 
 with a Force of fifty Men in Arms, who by the Pro- 
 vidence of God, and the said Governours discreet 
 management, broke thorow, and quell'd the Rabble, 
 without Blood-shed, even beyond the expectation 
 of all concerned, the Captain of these Rioters hav- 
 ing prepared his Gun with a Charge of thirty-eight 
 small Bullets. 
 
 But all this seemed little in the Eyes of S. Jen- 
 ings, therefore that he might more effectually 
 accomplish his seditious Designs to subvert the 
 Government, he and his ^(xi^r- Followers held a 
 great Meeting, as private as they could, about De- 
 
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 cember last, at the said Jenings' Plantation House, 
 which Meeting was appointed for his said Follow- 
 ers to draw up a Writing against the Governour and 
 Government, to send to England; but when the 
 said People met, they found the said Writing ready 
 contrived & drawn to their hands, which, when 
 'twas read, a person was appointe'd to set every 
 mans Name thereunto the said yentngs having be- 
 fore threatened the Governour to his face to throw 
 him out of the Government, & therefore he 
 [^/^/^dT-like] uses such Clandestine ways to get 
 others to authorize his Plots, that it may be seen in 
 England, that 'tis not he, but the People that does 
 it; and all this must be for the Propagation of their 
 Truth, yea, endeavours of Ruin to their peaceable 
 Neighbours, nay, Province and all shall lie at stake, 
 rather than this man to want his Will. 
 
 *No wonder therefore that he and his Faction in 
 the General Assembly refuses to sign the Association 
 of Fidelity to King William, he being so great a 
 yacobite that he covenants with those to whom he 
 sells his Land, in their Deeds, to pay their Quit- 
 Rents to the late King yames, a known enemy to 
 the Kingdom ; this all who please m'ay see recorded 
 in the Registers Office at Burlington. 
 
 'Tis he that has got away the Book of the Laws 
 
 [*8] 
 
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 of the Province (as his Friend H. Grubb informs 
 us) and conceals it from the present Government (for 
 he had rather the Province should be without Laws 
 than not to have them of his own making) but God 
 be thanked he cannot conceal the Laws of England 
 from us; but perhaps he conceals it for fear of 
 loosing their great Fundamental Law therein re- 
 corded, made when the said yenings was Governour, 
 viz. That the Governour for the time- being shall sign all 
 Acts whatsoever the Representatives, from time to time, 
 please to enact. This is the Magna Charta of West- 
 farsey, made to out do that other Magna Charta of 
 England: What think ye Sirs! were not these men 
 wiser than our English Legislators? Was not Cato 
 of old inferiour to this Man ? for they were but 
 People of the World, but the ^takers say, They are 
 the Only People of GOD. 
 
 But, lastly, it is not to be doubted but when a 
 Committee of both Houses did debate ;6\ Jenings 
 and his party's Pretentions to the Government, at 
 the Assembly held in November, vGgj, it did inspire 
 great boldness to Jenings & his Faction to proceed 
 as they have done, that the then Governour Hamil- 
 ton did plead so stifly for them aiid their pretended 
 Right, and had not one word to offer on the behalf 
 of the Society, for which his zeal on their account. 
 
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 and against the Society, they honestly answered his 
 expectation with a Present of 200 /. I say, they 
 thereby took great boldness, who being greedy ot' 
 engrossing the whole Rule of the Province to them- 
 selves, they had not only outed every Justice in the 
 County of Burlington, except their own faction of 
 fakers, but also they had turned out the Council 
 from being Justices, ex officio, so that none but Illit- 
 erate and otherways Unqualified Persons bore Rule, 
 the ill-Effects whereof the Province in divers respects 
 has and yet does groan under, as may in time be fur- 
 ther manifested. 
 
 But to conclude, I leave these things to be con- 
 sidered, and whether there be not now need of a 
 Militia in the Province to secure our Lives & Estates, 
 left by the leading fakers crying out against the 
 Government, as no Government, the Mob here, and 
 Scum of England, transported to these Plantations, 
 should joyn to Ravage and Ruin both us and them ? 
 And 'tis seen already what Robberies have been 
 lately committed by Pyrates at the lower parts of 
 Delaware, for want of being opposed by Force, not- 
 VV'ithstanding the fakers boasting of their Trust in 
 divine Providence to restrain evil Men. 
 
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 [ *9 ] ^Annimadversions upon the Quakers Award, &c. 
 Pen'd under the direction and guidance of this godly In- 
 struction and Caution, viz. He that justifieth the Wick- 
 ed, and he that condemneth the Just, even they both are 
 Abominations to the Lord, Pro v. 17. 15. 
 Impartial Reader ; 
 
 Many remarkable Observations the fore-going 
 Award v^^ill offer to thy discreet and ingenious 
 Consideration. 
 
 r. That tho' the most antient and eminent Pro- 
 fessors of the fakers communion, and their great. 
 Patriarch GEORGE FOX himself (w^ho first gave 
 birth and existence to that New^ Sect) were chosen 
 Arbitrators by the mutual Consent and Agreement 
 of the controverting Parties, all Disciples or Prose- 
 lites of the said FOX, yet because they drew up an 
 Award which did not in all points suit the haughty 
 Genius and ambitious Pretensions of Samuell jfenings, 
 he did not scruple dispensing with his Quakerism, 
 utterly to reject it as Unjust^ and by his Example 
 others also, whom he headed gnd govern'd, and who 
 could not, or durst not see but with his Eyes, tho' 
 they had bound themselves by a Writing under their 
 hands (as is declar'd in the Award) to submit to 
 the Judgment and Arbitrement of these venerable 
 Friends, headed by their first Apostle, and the great 
 Architect and President of their Society. 
 
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 2. Which Proceedings do evince, how far such 
 Persons are worthy to be credited, and what Confi- 
 dence may reasonably be repos'd in them in other 
 matters, whom neither so solemn a Tye, as a Writing 
 under their hands, nor the Authority of such Per- 
 sons, could bind to their Promise'^, or engage a 
 Conformity to their own free and spontaneous Act, 
 and the Obligation they had voluntarily assum'd. 
 Tho' this same FOX, and others concern'd with him 
 in this Arbitration, are the Men, whom, on other 
 occasions (where Interest is not concern'd) for the 
 reputation and support of their Party, they represent 
 as Ho/y and Righteous, and would perswade the 
 World to reverence them as such, and accordingly 
 preach them up as the Messengers of Truth, and not 
 inferiour to any of the holy Apostles. 
 
 3. That Sam. fenings by his Non-acquiescence to 
 their Decision doth draw great Scandal & Disgrace 
 upon himself and them. For, if Samuell should 
 be ask't. Why he doth refuse to submit to their 
 Determination ? his answer could be no other, but 
 
 that These fust Men had done Unjustly, & *that ther*jQ i 
 Spirit of Iniquity had got the Ascendant over these 
 Saints, so that their Understandings thereby were 
 darkened and eclipsed, and their Wills also rendered 
 partial, and averse to the Cause he had undertaken 
 to maintain, and in vain was brought before them. 
 2 
 
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 And if, on the other hand, the Arbitrators should 
 be interrogated, Why Samuell would not obey their 
 Order and Determination, & hig own Engagement 
 to conform accordingly? What could they Reply, 
 but That the Spirit of Pride (which had been a Lyar 
 and a Rebel from the beginning) had subdued his 
 Conscience to Oppose God's Ordinance, and to confederate 
 with him against them and the Truth, by whose Inspira- 
 tion and Guidance they had pen' d that Award? 
 
 4. So that by Sam. Jenings's, orwn Testimony, & 
 Theirs also whose Senses have been perverted to 
 link themselves with him, G. FOX, G. Whitehead, 
 S. Crisp, and the rest of the Arbitrators, did not act 
 according to Justice and Truth i-n this matter, nor 
 Samuell and his Party by theirs ; and consequently 
 by the Reciprocal Evidence of these Men against 
 each other, none of them are Righteous, Perfect or 
 Infallible, as they hold forth to others, and preach 
 themselves to be. But Samuell must be content to 
 knock under, and not pretend to stand in Competi- 
 tion, in point of Veracity, with these Arbitrators; 
 for in the true Spirit ol ^akerism, neither their Light 
 nor Integrity is to be disputed or called in question ; 
 since they were Men, that by the common Testimony 
 of the whole Body, and the essentials of their own 
 Creed, were illuminated and govern'd by the Spirit 
 of Truth, and were taught all things (as formerly 
 
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 the Apostles of Christ) by the powerful Irradia- 
 tion of its Light within them. By their very 
 Fundementals therefore, their Decision of the Con- 
 troversie is Evidence sufficient to convince, that they 
 understood it, 6c consequently understood w^hat they 
 did therein, and ought to be done, in point of Jus- 
 tice, on the behalf of each party. If then Justice 
 w^as equally distributed by them in this Avv^ard 
 (w^hich cannot be deny'd by a ^dker, if he'll be 
 true to, and not revolt from his Principles) w^hy did 
 Samue// refuse to comply with it? And if Samuell, 
 &c those under his Government, who pin'd their 
 judgment on his Sleeve, had been men of common 
 Probity, how could they have sham'd their Promise, 
 and strain'd such a Case? a case so remarkable, so 
 circumstantiated, to defeat so solemn an Obligation, 
 to the disgrace of themselves, and the Pillars of 
 their Party? 
 
 5. That even those moral Precepts enjoyn'd both 
 Parties by these Arbitrators, as their Christian Duty, 
 Not to malign, not to Revile or Back-bite each other, 
 have been rejected by Samuell and his Accomplices, 
 as Anti-christian, even to this day; so=that the Grave 
 doth not yet defend Byllinge against their Slanders, 
 nor the Authority of those antient select Friends 
 (to *whose Decision Jenings, and his Adherents sub- [ *i 1 1 
 jected their Cause and Controversie) against their 
 
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 Rebellion. But they still as hotly inveigh against 
 Billing, and as fiercely appear and concern them- 
 selves against that Power and Government, in whom 
 it is now legally and rightfully invested, as formerly 
 when it was lodged in Billing'?, Person, before they 
 consented and submitted to this Arbitration. And 
 at this very present, this great Champion against 
 Billing and this Award doth act this part so strenu- 
 ously, and with such success, as to draw great Num- 
 bers after him in his Rebellion, and with such a 
 stubborn Refractoriness, as to tell the present Gov- 
 ernour to his face. He neither liked him nor his Commis- 
 sion; did therefore from thenceforth denounce per- 
 petual Hostility against him, and should not cease to 
 make War upon him until he had driven him out of the 
 Government. 
 
 6. That not only Sam, Jenings, but whosoever be- 
 side combine with him to oppose the Governours 
 Commission and Authority, oppose the Judgment of 
 G. FOX, and the rest of the Arbitrators named in 
 this Award, and consequently the Judgment of the 
 most antient Friends and principal Rulers of the 
 whole Body, and censure them and it as Unjust & 
 Unworthy of their Regard. So that whilst they 
 strive against the Government, they also strive to 
 sully the good Name of these eminent Friends, and 
 cast such a Reproach upon their Memories & Repu- 
 
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 tation, as must inevitably form a -bad Impression of 
 them in others, & will at once cancel their Preten- 
 sions to those high Dispensations which they claim 
 and proclaim as peculiar to themselves, and were 
 never before communicated to any other Name, 
 Order or Society of Christian Professors. 
 
 7. It cannot therefore but highly concern the Peo- 
 ple of West-New-Jarsey to consider whether it is 
 not more just and safe to obey the Determination 
 and judgment of these antient Friends, than the 
 bold seditious Notions of that Person, whom those 
 Friends, in the Spirit of Truth (as all fakers are 
 obliged to believe, unless they will renounce Unity 
 with their Friends and consistency with themselves) 
 have stigmatiz'd with the infamous Character oi Be- 
 traying his Trust, declaring, that his Proceedings, and 
 theirs also that did appear with him against Billing's, 
 Authority (whom they did publish, testifie and rec- 
 ognize to be his and their lawful Governor) were 
 Unfair, Unwarrantable, Unsafe and worthy of Blame. 
 And it is an indelible stain on the fakers of West- 
 farsey, that those who are not of the fakers Pro- 
 fession in that Province conform themselves to the 
 Award of these antient Friends, and religiously ob- 
 serve the good Advice therein incerted and urged, 
 and those that profess themselves fakers generally 
 abhor, and spurn against it, as if it were the Dictates 
 
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 [ *i 2 ] of some Profligate Wretches, or the Resolution *and 
 Sentiments of the Sons of Belial, and not the con- 
 scientious Judgment and impartial Decree of honest 
 Men? 
 
 8. Nor can it be any Excuse for Sam. yenings, and 
 others, (who are, and long have been active by his 
 Motion, as the great Wheel to seduce and betray the 
 People into Sedition) that they have gain'd a Multi- 
 tude to appear on their side against the present Gov- 
 ernor and Government. The iSuccess of this Agency 
 will not extenuate, but on the contrary aggravate 
 both their Shame and Offence. For who are they, 
 whose Judgments are debauch-ed thereby.? are they 
 not generally professed fakers? And what are the 
 Fruits thereof? What doth such a Negotiation 
 operate, but the Peoples Disturbance, the Violation 
 of the publick Peace, the Obstruction of Justice, 
 and endless Distractions, Animosities & Confusions 
 among all Parties, and in a word, the Destruction of 
 the Province? And as it shews their Power with 
 the People, so their abuse of that Power, and how 
 pernicious and dangerous such Seditious, Turbulent 
 Spirits are in any Government, in whose Breasts ap- 
 pears to be lodged a large Seminary of Contentions, 
 Sedition, Factions and Hostilities, to use SamuelFs 
 own Term? 
 
 9. Nor can this Plea or pretention be any Justifi- 
 
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 cation or Warrantee for their Proceedings, That the 
 present Governour is not approved of hy his Majesty, 
 according to the Prescription and Tenor of the late Act 
 of Parliament. This Argument will recoil upon 
 themselves, and against the late Governour, and make 
 him no Governour after the 25th day of March, 
 1697. and consequently all Publick and Provincial 
 Acts illegal, void, unwarrantable and dangerous after 
 that time, especially since he did not so much for 
 his Warrantee to hold the Government after the 
 Limitation expired, as to obtain a Dedimus Potestatem 
 to take the Oath, tho' so precisely and peremptorily 
 commanded by that Act. Which therefore neither 
 was nor could be legally taken by or administered 
 to him, according to the manner and direction, as 
 thereby enjoyn'd. But waiving this point, and admit- 
 ting their Allegation to be true, tho' the contrary is 
 manifest by the Dedimus Potestatem, which the now 
 Governor brought along with hifn, under the broad 
 Seal of England, his Instructions from the Lords 
 Justice, signed by the Lords Cornmissioners of the 
 Treasury, the very same verbatim as are given to all 
 other his Majesties Governours in America, for which 
 he gave distinct Receipts, as Governour of the far- 
 seys; A letter from his Majesty, addressed to him in 
 the stile of Governour of New-Jarsey, the printed 
 
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 Gazets pubflished by Authority, wherein his Ma- 
 jesties approbation of him, for thef Government of 
 the Jarseys, was advertiz'd) and several other Writ- 
 ings, Instruments & Testimofiials, which are as so 
 many unquestionable Vouchers and irrefragible 
 Proofs that he comes to this Government approved 
 of by his Majesty, according to the said Act of Par- 
 [*I3 ] liament. But admitting the *contrary, and their 
 Allegation to be true (as is said before) yet it is not 
 a Point that they ought to meddle with. The Ex- 
 amination and Discussion thereof is not left to them. 
 Infinitely otherwise. For by the Direction of the 
 same Act, No Persons, Powers, Jurisdiction or Au- 
 thority are to take Cognizance of this matter but the 
 King himself, his Heirs or Successors, or such as he or 
 they shall think ft to appoint. The Parliament of 
 England could not so much mistake or forget a De- 
 corum, as to subject the King's Lieutenant, who rep- 
 resents his Majesty here, and iS entrusted with Regal 
 Powers, to the Disquisition of such little Souls as 
 Sam. yenings, or any those Mechanick Mermidons 
 that have confederated with him to prosecute his 
 audacious and seditious Menaces against the Gov- 
 ernour. On the contrary, are so tender and cautious 
 to act any thing in derogation of that honourable 
 
 f The words between the daggers form one line in the first edition, 
 and they were so transposed as to follow the letters Go, in the word 
 Governour, in the third line from foot of page 23 of this edition. 
 
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 Post, lest it might seem to reflect some slight and 
 contempt upon his Majesty, that they have left the 
 Judgment thereof (as aforesaid) wholly to his Ma- 
 jesty, as the most competent Judge of his own 
 Actions, and the most suitable Tribunal in these 
 Cases for his Representatives, And tho' the Act is 
 express and positive in this particular, yet Sam. ]en- 
 ings, and his Partisans, as if they were above all Laws 
 and Powers, and his Majesty not so capable and well 
 qualified as they to be entrusted with the Exam- 
 ination of this great Cause, have therefore thought 
 fit to over-rule the Parliament of England, as to that 
 part of their Act, and by a superlative Presumption 
 to assume the Decision of this Case to themselves, 
 and have passed Judgment upon it accordingly, 
 which they strive to execute with all the Force and 
 Opposition against the Governor, they are able to 
 make, imploying, upon their first Notice of his 
 Commission, their utmost Efforts to keep him out 
 of the Government, which they have put since upon 
 the highest stretch to throw hirri out of it. 
 
 lo. Before we conclude this Discourse, we cannot 
 but further insist upon a Topick (which was curso- 
 rily touched before) and more plainly expose to 
 view, the indeed, sensless partiality of the fakers 
 of West-]arsey, who have so generally and unani- 
 mously revolted from the Society, and conspired 
 
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 against them, and their Commissioner, the present 
 Governour, that scarce three of that Denomination 
 within that Province may be justly exempted from 
 that Charge. 
 
 I2.f The late Governor (as was said before) neither 
 had the Kings approbation, nor a Dedimus Potesta- 
 tem for the Administration of the Oath to him, ac- 
 cording to the Law, tho' both were so strictly & 
 precisely enjoyn'd thereby unto him, and all other 
 Proprietary Governours of any of his Majesties Col- 
 lonies or Plantations before the 25th day of March, 
 1 697, yet the fakers, notwithstanding those Failures 
 and Omissions, did not scruple to own him for Gov- 
 ernor, till he gave place to a new Commission, 
 [ *I4 ] which he *could not but own to be legal & plenary, 
 and therefore yielded Obedience to it, and went off, 
 as superceded by it, which was about 15 Months 
 after the time limitted by the Act, and were also so 
 hot and zealous then to maintain his Authority (not- 
 withstanding the above Defects, contrary to the 
 Law) that they would not have fail'd to oppose 
 any, that on pretence thereof'should have call'd it 
 in quest/on. 
 
 12. The present Governor hvmgs ovtv 2l Dedimus 
 Potestatem under the broad Seal of England, takes 
 
 f This paragraph should be ii, but as this edition is a reprint of the 
 first, verhatim et literatum, it is thought best to make no correction. 
 
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 the Oath, as prescribed by the Law. The Time, 
 the Place, the Concourse of Spectators and Auditors 
 made this Act so publick that it could not, that it 
 cannot be deny'd by them. Nevertheless because 
 he did not bring such Vouchers of his Majesties ap- 
 probation as they could not except against (which 
 was impossible, unless for this also he could have 
 brought the broad Seal oi England to answer their 
 Quibbles & Cavils, tho' he brought such assurances 
 thereof (as was instanced before) as might have sat- 
 isfied any reasonable unprepossessed Persons) they 
 resist him as an illegal Usurper, and deny that his 
 Commission ought to be received. So the late 
 Governour, tho' he fail'd in both those Prelimina- 
 ries required by the Act, was still notwithstanding 
 own'd by them as the legal Governor of the Pro- 
 vince, and the present Governor that in reality fails 
 in neither, and by them is supposed & charged but 
 to fail in one, is deny'd to be so for that precise 
 Reason. And the Opposition they make against 
 him hath such a leven and tincture of a Perverse 
 Spirit in it, that they will tollerate any Mischief to 
 be commmitted in the Province, rather than do any- 
 thing to redress, punish or prevent it, whereby it 
 may be imply'd that they own the Governour, or in 
 the least submit to his Administration. Cannot there- 
 fore by Subpaena's or any Inducements be compelled 
 
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 or prevail'd with to give Evi4ence at the Courts in 
 any Causes either Civil or Criminal, or to perform 
 any Services there. 
 
 13. And tho' (as before recited) 'tis expressly 
 enacted by the said Act, That all who shall be made 
 Governors or Commanders in Chief of any of his Majesties 
 Collonies or Plantations, shall take the Oath therein pre- 
 scribed ; and such as are not immediately Commissionated 
 by his Majesty, shall not only take the same Oath, but 
 also be approved of by his Majesty, before their enter ance 
 into their Government. And if any of the said Gover- 
 nors or Commanders in Chief be convicted of failure, or 
 to have made default in either of the Premises, by the 
 Oath of two or more credible- Witnesses, before his 
 Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or such as he or they 
 shall authorize and appoint, he shall be removed from his 
 Government, & forfeit the sum of One Thousand Pounds 
 Sterling. 
 
 14. Tho' the Act thus prescribes, yet the fakers 
 of West-Jarsey doubt not to confederate against this 
 
 [ *i 5 ] Authority, and as Patriots of the Province *and 
 Champions for the Publick (which Opinion they 
 deceitfully insinuate into the credulous and simple) 
 boldly oppugne it. So they will not have the Gov- 
 ernor removed from his Government, but kept out 
 of it. Not to incur the Penalties for entering be- 
 fore the said Oath taken, and Approbation obtained. 
 
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 but not to enter at all, nor consequently be liable to 
 any Forfeitures. Nor to be convicted by the Oath 
 of two, or more credible Witnesses, nor before his 
 Majesty, but Themselves vv^ill be Judges, Witnesses, 
 and Accusers also in this Controversie. And tho' 
 the Act gives the Appelation and Character of Gov- 
 ernor to all such as have received a Commission for 
 Government, tho' suppos'd to have fail'd in those 
 Performances appointed by the Act, and to have 
 made themselves obnoxious to the Penalties thereby 
 enjoyn'd. Yet these Confederate Friends disallow it, 
 as a Title of supererogation, and both by their 
 Words and Comportment censure it as an Unreason- 
 able, Erronious, and an Unwarrantable Complement. 
 
 1 5. And thus they take that Judgment upon them, 
 which by the express words and Direction of the 
 Act, is appointed for another Tribunal, where (as 
 before was observed) his Majesty is to be sole Judge, 
 his Heirs or Successors, or such only as he or they 
 shall authorize and appoint, arrogating to themselves 
 a Dictatorship over the Parliament of England, and 
 making their own Stubborn, Untractable Wills para- 
 mount to the Laws and Authority of that august 
 Assembly. The Consequences whereof Time will 
 discover, and to that Test we shall leave it now. 
 
 16. This we have thought fit to publish, in ten- 
 derness to the People and Inha|)itants of the Pro- 
 
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 vince of West New-Jarsey, and as a Caution to them, 
 from a cordial Desire of their common Wellfare, 
 Peace and Prosperity, and to the end that those who 
 yet stand may be strengthened and confirm'd, and 
 those that have fallen, may, as by a hand stretched 
 forth for their Assistance, recover themselves, and 
 as good Subjects and Christians return to their Duty; 
 conformable to that of the great St. Augustine, 
 whereby he endeavours to expt;ll Obdurateness from 
 Humane Nature, and to drive'it into its proper Re- 
 gion and Channel. Humanum est labi, sed Diabolicum 
 est perseverare. 'Tis an incident of human Frailty 
 to fall sometimes, but to continue, but to be hard- 
 ened therein, is the Property of the Devil, From 
 which Unhappy Graceless State, Lord, in the Tender- 
 ness of thy Mercies deliver this People, both the Seducers 
 and the seduced I Create in them a New Heart and an 
 Upright Spirit in their inward parts. Make them 
 legitimate Children of thy Light, faithful Friends of thy 
 Truth, and docile in Holiness, that being delivered from 
 Arrogancy and Obstinacy, from the Guile of Hypocrisie, 
 and the deceitful Delusions of vain Pretentions, false 
 Appearances & crafty Insinuations, they may approve 
 themselves to Thee in the Sincerity and Integrity of a 
 [ * 1 6 ] constant ^and chearful Obedience to thy revealed Will, 
 particularly to these thy inspired Oracles published, and 
 recorded by those great Secretaries and divine Pen-men 
 
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 of thy holy Spirit, Rom. 13. v, i,- 2, &c. Let every 
 Soul be subject unto the higher Powers ; for there is no 
 Power but of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the 
 Powers, resisteth the Ordinance of God; and they that 
 resist shall receive to themselves Damnation. And 
 much more in this place, to the same effect, is 
 ardently inculcated by the holy Apostle. And 
 again. Tit. 3. i. Put them in mind to be subject to 
 Principalities and Powers, to obey Magistrates, to be 
 ready to every good Work ; to speak evil of no Man, to 
 be no Brawlers, but gentle, shewing all Meekness unto 
 all Men. Which Christian Virtues he illustrates by 
 their contrary Vices. For Contraria juxta se posita 
 magis illucescunt. For we our selves (saith he) were 
 also sometimes Foolish, Disobedient, Deceived, serving 
 divers Lusts and Pleasures, living in Malice and Envy, 
 Hateful, and hating one another. Now let the most 
 confident Pretenders and Boasters of Godliness and 
 high Dispensations, try themselves by this Test, not 
 deceitfully, and flattering their Consciences, but 
 seriously and impartially, whether this is not still 
 the Frame & Posture of their Interiour, and an 
 exact and lively Description of their present Con- 
 dition ? See what the holy Ghost does yet else- 
 where further exhort, and give us in charge on the 
 same subject, particularly i Pet. 2. 13, 14. and in 
 many other places of the divine Records, too tedious 
 to be quoted or enumerated here. 
 
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 17. Thus Paj^l indeed may plant, and Apollo 
 water, but 'tis God alone that gives the Increase. 
 To whose blessing therefore we recommend these 
 Seeds, that they may fall upon good Ground, and 
 multiply therein, to the Increase of our Peace, the 
 establishment of Christian Love; and a holy Con- 
 versation among us. For by the Testimony of our 
 Lord himself. Mat. 13. 23. such as the ground is, 
 so will the Increase be. And there we must leave 
 it, even to the same All-powerfu»l God, who is also 
 able to correct, to amend, to reclaim the Soil, to 
 cleanse it from Weeds and all Nastiness, to cure its 
 Sterility, and to cause it to yield a plentiful Crop in 
 its due season. 
 
 FINIS 
 
TRUTH RESCUED 
 FROM 
 
 BEING 
 
 An Answer to a late Scurrilous piece 
 
 Entituled 
 THE CASE PUT AND DECIDED &c. 
 
 Which 
 
 Stole into the World without any known Au- 
 thors name affixed thereto, And renders it the 
 more like it's FATHER^ Who was a Lyer and 
 Muri her er from the Beginning. 
 
 BY 
 
 SAMUEL JENINGS. 
 
 Printed at Philadelphia By Reynier "Jansen 1699. 
 
 ^'^ 
 
Reprinted January, 1881, by the Collins Printing House, Philada. 
 
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 *TRUTH RESCUED [ *3 ] 
 
 FROM 
 
 j0j'§et| & ^aMi00i 
 
 c. 
 
 Impartial Reader, 
 
 Yl ad the Authors of the Libel I am now to answer, 
 been so just to me and the World, as to have sent 
 their Names along with it, it might have saved me 
 much, if not all, of this Labour; they having (espe- 
 cially of late) so signalized themselves, by divers 
 memorable actions, that hardly ariy whom fame 
 hath reached with the knowledge thereof, will hesi- 
 tate in giving them their Character, and I think it 
 not a little to my reputation, that mine and theirs 
 are so different. And though JOHN TATHAM, 
 THOMAS REVELL and NATH. WEST-LAND 
 did at last, when I had staged the Author'' or Au- 
 thors for Forgery and Falshood, come forth, and 
 own themselves the Authors, yet their Libel being 
 before dispersed without a name, ^nd might fall 
 into some hands, who were Strangers both to the 
 things and Persons, I find it necessary to pursue it 
 
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 with this. What induced these angry Counsellours, 
 to fall upon me in this Boorish manner, at this time, 
 is plain, from the burthen of their Complaint \ That 
 the Kuthority which they have assumed is not recog- 
 nized, which I know is a great vexation to men of 
 their temper and circumstanc-es, whose ambition is 
 to rule, and their leisure from* other employments 
 such, as may be a temptation' 'to them, like Locusts 
 to live upon other Mens labours: To wich I hav- 
 ing shewn some aversion, they thereby fondly take 
 an occasion to magnifie my Interest with others, to 
 an excessive extream, and make me Author of all 
 [ *4 ] *the Interruptions and affronts they have met with, 
 in the exercise of their sham Authority. My share 
 of it I am willing to own; but not to exclude 
 others, to whom for their fidelity to their Country, 
 belongs a share of that regard, that's due to men, 
 that will not basely and meanly truckle, to any pre- 
 tentions, where Royal Authority is wanting: For 
 which reason the two last General Assemblys of this 
 Province, have not thought fit to recognize the Au- 
 thority by which these men act; and how far they 
 have approved themselves true men and Friends to 
 their Country, who have opposed their Private sense, 
 to the declared sense of the Province by their Rep- 
 resentatives, will (I hope) in a little time be more 
 fully discovered, and rewarded according to its due 
 
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 demerit. Let this suffice for an Introduction, I shall 
 now proceed, to touch upon the severall parts of 
 their Libel, as it lyes before me in order, and begin 
 First with what they call, and would have the 
 World to believe, to be the Awafd. 
 
 That there was such a thing as a Difference, be- 
 twixt Edward Billing on the one part, and the Pro- 
 prietors and Inhabitants of West-jfersey on the other, 
 is certain ; which they have misrepresented in their 
 Tile-Page, and render it to lye betwixt Edward Bil- 
 ling on the one part, and some West-Jersians headed 
 by me on the other part. Whence I can not but 
 observe, that when they have a mind to reproach 
 me, they'l make me as big as a Province, that they 
 may load me with the blame of a Province, and pres- 
 ently (to serve their own turn) confine me again, to 
 such narrow limits, as may render me very diminu- 
 tive ; but when they have said and done all they 
 c^n. By the grace of God, I am what I am, i Cor. 15, 
 10. But to proceed; How basely doth it look, to 
 betray the Reader into a belief, That it was only a 
 Paction of West-'Jersians, headed by Samuel Jenings, 
 that opposed Edward Billing, and thence sprung the 
 Controversy F 
 
 But to undeceive my Reader, I must let him know. 
 That it was no less, nor no other, than the General 
 Assembly of West-Jersy, which I no otherwaies 
 
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 *5 ] headed, than as being *at that time their Governour, 
 which made the other Party, who accordingly com- 
 missionated me and Thomas Budd, to go to England, 
 to negotiate their affairs there with Billing, Georg 
 Hutcheson at the same time offering himself as a 
 Volunteer, to our assistance. Pursuant to our Com- 
 fnission and Instructions, we proceeded in the Voyage, 
 and by the Grace of GOD, arrived in a good and 
 short time at our Port; and when we came there, 
 meeting with Billing, we imparted our business to 
 him, which was, in the name of the Proprietors, to 
 make a demand of the Government, to whom he had 
 as much sold it as the Soil, anci taken their mony 
 for it. This message was very ungrateful to him, 
 who resolved (as the consequence hath shewn) to 
 cheat us, in what we esteemed the best part of our 
 bargain ; For at that time, the So//, without the 
 Government, would have been of no value to the 
 Purchasers. And though before our arrival, he was 
 the great Complainant, and threatned high what he 
 would do, if his Authority should be disputed, yet 
 finding now, that it was like to come to that indeed 
 (for so were we instructed, viz. if he refused to 
 comply with our just demands, to complain against 
 him at White- Hall or Westminster -Hall, as able 
 Counsell should advise) and fearing nothing more 
 than his, and well knowing, that his Actions could 
 
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 not abide so severe a Test, makes it his business with 
 might and main to prevail with our Friends, to use 
 their endeavours, to take up this business, and make 
 a more private end of it, if they could, or at least, 
 to prevent our procedure against him in the way we 
 intended. Upon which a proposall was made, by 
 some of the Persons, who were afterwards Arbi- 
 trators; That we would submit the Controversy, to 
 the determination of a certain number of Persons, 
 to be equally chosen. To wich we replyed, we had 
 no such power nor direction from our Principals, 
 but were it so it had affected us only, we should 
 chearfully do it. They urged some reasons, which 
 I shall here omit to give, why it was not then a 
 proper time to Prosecute such an affair, in the way 
 we intended ; But if it was not in our power, to 
 submit *the decision wholly to theni, in the name [ *6 J 
 of the whole, yet we might do it on our own proper 
 account: With which Thomas Budd first closed, and 
 then I was disabled, not having power to act alone, 
 and therefore complied also ; Although my com- 
 pliance with this Proposall, I must declare, to be an 
 Act of necessity, and not of choice ; and rhough I 
 put an high value upon concord amongst Brethren, 
 yet that relates chiefly to Religious concerns, and 
 may be inviolably maintained, notw4thstanding our 
 different sentiments, in Civil affairs. Thus we sub- 
 
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 mitfed, and they undertook to hfear and determine 
 our case, which accordingly they did, and delivered 
 the Award into my hands, the eleventh day of 
 October 1684., w^here it hath remained ever-since, 
 and still is, being an Original and signed with the 
 Arbitrarors own hands. But finding a Printed thing 
 steal into the ^orA/ without a name 'under the visor 
 of the aforesaid Award, I took the Pains to compare 
 them^ and find at least thirty eight variations, some 
 of which not being very material, I shall pass by, 
 and account them the act of the Pen-man, in trying 
 to correct and amend the sence^ who will hardly 
 allow, that any man (at least in these Parts) under- 
 stands it like himself. But others there are, that 
 seem to be designedly and knavishly foisted in, of 
 which nothing is to be found in the Award; Which 
 wen I had considered' I Published a few lines in 
 Manuscript, declaring; That whit was published in 
 print as the Award, was Spurious and false ; Which 
 occasioned the Publishing of divers in that manner 
 on each side, with which I shall not much meddle 
 now, except to touch a little upqn their last Paper, 
 the rest being already answered. 
 
 I come now to give some Particular Instances of 
 their Forgery and Falsehood, and begin with Page 3., 
 where they make the Award to spaek thus: "That 
 " whereas S. Jenings and the Assembly in West- 
 
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 " Jarsey had Positively acknowledged E. Billing as 
 
 " Governour, and acted about two years by virtue of 
 
 "his Commission and Power, and B. Jenings as his 
 
 " Deputy engaging to serve him, and preserve his 
 
 " Interest in *that capacity ; Now after all this they [ *7 ] 
 
 " accepting E. Billing as Governour only in trust, as 
 
 " they alledge, in order to have him assign his Power 
 
 "and Government to the People; which not being 
 
 " obtained with his consent, then they rejecting him 
 
 " the said Billing, and chusing S. Jenings Governour in 
 
 "his stead, and his accepting thereof, WAS A BE- 
 
 "TRAYING HIS TRUST; as also rejecting /F. 
 
 "Welch, since deputed by E. Billing, without giving 
 
 " E. Billing any previous notice of these their de- 
 
 " signs and proceedings against him and his interest, 
 
 " These we judge Irregular Proceedings, Unfair and 
 
 " Unwarrantable, Unsafe and worthy of bla?ne in S. 
 
 " Jenings and all Persom concerned therein. 
 
 Here I charge my ^adversaries with downright 
 FORGERY and FALSHOOD, there being no 
 such words in the whole Award; as betraying of 
 trust, of which they seemed so fond, suiting their 
 malicious design so well, that to give it the greater 
 Emphasis, they put it in Capitall Letters; But being 
 now discovered, and their Forgery detected, serves 
 only to render them Capitall in malice and abuse : 
 Nor doth it excuse them to say, as in one of their 
 
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 Papers they do, "That not any thing is couched in 
 "the said Printed Award; no not even that noted 
 "reflection upon Samuel m Capital letters, but what 
 "we will prove to be true, when occasion shall re- 
 " quire &c. But this is still to do, and this T leave 
 as a task upon them to perform,' when they shall 
 think the occasion requireth. I am glad I am so 
 much before hand with them, having Proved my 
 charge against them before severall credible Wit- 
 nesses, who for their private satisfaction, have com- 
 pared what they have Printed,- with the true Award, 
 and (I believe) will not refuse to give evidence, to 
 the truth of what I here assert, if it be desired ; 
 and I do hereby further promise, to give the like 
 satisfaction, to as many as sha'll soberly request it. 
 But, say they, "The Award- now Published, — as 
 " received from their [the Awarders^ hands, so was 
 "transmitted hither for information, and is by us 
 "made publick, for the same end, without the least 
 "variati — on. And is it more reasonable to relie 
 ^8 "I "upon his veracity, *in this matter, than the worth 
 "and reputation of those honourable Gentlemen in 
 ''England, that sent it hither Verbatim as We have 
 " Published it &c. 
 
 Thereby implying as if the Award thty have Printed 
 is of equal force and validity with the other. To 
 which I answer. Theirs can be but a Copy^ as appears 
 
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 by its date, being four daies after the Originals were 
 delivered into the hands of the Parties concerned, 
 and therefore not of equal credit with the Original : 
 But my business is not to consider what it is, nor 
 how they come by it ; my complaint and charge is 
 That they have Printed and published to the World, 
 in the name of eight of my Friends, a thing called 
 their Award, with divers Additions, Omissions and 
 Variations, and that in divers of the most considerable 
 passages in it, tending greatly to slander and reproach 
 me. and this I call Forgery and Falshood, and shall 
 leave it upon them, till they can more fairly throw 
 it of, than yet they have done. 
 
 And again in page 3, where they say : " These we 
 '^ judge Irregular proceedings, unfair and unw arrant - 
 " able, unsaje and worthy of Blame in S. Jenings and 
 " all Persons concerned therein. 
 
 There is no mention made of S. Jenings, nor any 
 blame laid upon him, but in conjunction with the 
 Assembly, who are Blamed for chusing, and he for 
 accepting their choice of him for Governour. But 
 I am glad of this oppretunity, to clear that point, 
 which I doubt not to do, to the satisfaction of any 
 indifferent person; and to acquit my self, and the 
 Assembly too, from any just blame upon that occasion. 
 
 But here I expect to meet with an Objection, viz. 
 But why then did your Friends blame you in their 
 
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 Award, and were not they Divinely inspired in what 
 they did ? I answer; Because I find my Adversaries 
 harp so much upon that, and make such a perverse, 
 or rather malicious use of it ; I put it upon them to 
 prove, when ever our Friends have placed their Con- 
 duct in Civil affairs, so high; No, we can very well 
 admitt of different sentiments iln those things, with- 
 out any braech of Religious union ; and this being 
 r *9 1 partly a Law~'^case, upon which the judgement of 
 these Friends was grounded, it is not utterly impos- 
 sible, but they might be somewhat mistaken in it : 
 However, it should have lain untoucht for me, had 
 not I thus unexpectedly, as well as unfairly been as- 
 saulted afresh, and recriminated by the Award. But 
 to meet with this from any Mtmbers of West-yersey, 
 that would be thought to be tender of her Rights 
 and Priveledges, for the sake of which I suffered what 
 I did, in defence of them, is vqry strange ; especially 
 considering how much I was importuned, and in a 
 sence forced, for the preservation of the Peace of 
 the Province, into a compliaftce ; which I should 
 think, cannot be forgotten by one of my Adversaries, 
 at least, who had not the least share, in advising 
 what was done; from whom I did not expect such 
 a return, for former kindnesses shewed him, by me 
 and others : Who in the time of his necessity, en- 
 joyed all the places of profit, that he was capable 
 
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 of in the Government, by the favour of those, over 
 whom he hath since made his insults; by which 
 means, he hath justly drawn upon himself, the hate- 
 full Epithet of Ingratitude, a thing Common to men 
 of his temper, which having branded him with, at 
 present I shall leave him. 
 
 But to proceed, you may perceive by the Award, 
 that the Agents of the Province, did alledge when in 
 England, " That they accepted E. Billing as Gover- 
 "nour only in Trust, in order to have him assign his 
 " Power and Government to the People. Which is 
 all very true and reasonable ; for it was to such 
 People, as had before bought and paid for it, and 
 E. Billing himself, when he First obtained the grant 
 from the Duke, endeavoured to make us believe, that 
 he received it but in trust, and would use it no otherwise, 
 and excuses thae taking it in his owjj name, alledg- 
 ing, it must be in a single person, and he could not obtain 
 it otherwise Which there was no reason to do, had 
 he not been conscious to himself, that the right of 
 it did appertain to others. 
 
 And William Penn, one of E. Billings Trustees, of 
 whom we bought, and well knew the Rights of the 
 People, whose ^Interest was the great means of ob- f *jo 1 
 taining the Grant of the Duke, alwaies declared ; 
 that he solicited for it in the name of the People, that 
 they might be able to make good what they had sold them. 
 
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 And Sir William "Jones, on whose opinion the Duke 
 much relied, gave it as his opinion, that the Right 
 belonged to the People; Upon which the Duke Frankly- 
 ordered, That a Second Grant should be given; The 
 intent being only to confirm biit not to destroy 
 the former. And lastly, than which nothing can 
 be more clear; The Second Grant, by which the 
 powers of Government were more clearly granted 
 to Billing, was never proposed to be sought for, but 
 at the request and charge of the Proprietors ; For, 
 sales Billing and some of his Ttustees in a letter now 
 in my hands, it will cost much money to obtain it, and 
 when gotten, you shall have the benefit of it. This I 
 think is enough to say for proof of this Point, though 
 I could say a great deal more, but shall use what 
 brevity thecase will bear. 
 
 Edward Billing having thus obtained the grant as 
 aforesaid, sends over a Commission to severall persons, 
 in which I was first named, and in case of mortality, 
 the rest ro succeed in their order as Deputy Gover- 
 nours : Now to shew with what caution this was 
 accepted, and no otherwise, but with a saving our 
 Right, the Records of the first Generall Assembly held 
 in West-fersey will shew. But before thar Assembly 
 was called, I knowing it to be against the Rights of 
 the People, for him to grant Commissions, and assume 
 the place of a Governour, I called together as many 
 
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 as I could, of the most antient and considerable of 
 the Inhabitants here, as soon as I had received the 
 Commission, and freely gave my sense of it, and told 
 them ; fny resolution was, never to impose it on them nor 
 make any use of it, except they apprehended, it might he 
 of service to them: Upon which the: thing was con- 
 sidered, debated, and at last concluded, that it was 
 better, not wholly to reject the Commission; but to 
 accept it as aforesaid, that some face of Authority 
 might be kept up, to avoid the confusions of an Anarchy. 
 Some are yet alive to *affirm to the truth of this, [*ii ] 
 though most of our antient Inhabitants, are by death 
 or otherwise removed. But besides all this, when 
 Billing sent his Commission, he sent a long Letter 
 with it, in which are contained the Apologies before 
 mentioned, declaring, // was his intent suddainly to 
 come, and settle the affair, to thcet hearts content of all 
 concerned; and to back all this, a Ship was then 
 newly arived, in which were Passengers, William 
 Biddle, Elias Farr and Benjamin Scott, with divers 
 others, but these I mention as of mdst note, and in- 
 timate with Billing, who declared, it as their sense ; 
 That he would be as good as his word, mid that he was 
 put upon a necessity, of accepting the Grant as he did, 
 and that it was requisite his Commission should be ac- 
 cepted for the time, till his arrival, which they judge 
 would he shortly. Thus I have shown the manner 
 
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 and reasons of accepting that Commission which I 
 think makes it evident enough, to be but in trust; 
 I come now to shew our reasons for rejecting it. 
 
 When Billing, by this soft and crafty dealing 
 with us, had drawn us on to recognize his Authority 
 (which he thought had been without condition or 
 teserve, for knowing him to be hot-headed and rash 
 as well as Indigent, we gave him no notice of it, 
 least in a Frenzie he should Sell the Government, 
 and so make it more troublesome to us to recover; 
 but expecting of him here, thought We might best 
 deal with him upon the place) he now begins to 
 treat us in other terms, and to let us know, he did 
 not intend to part with the Gouvef'nment ; Of which We 
 complaining to him, of his dishonesty to us ; in his 
 next he tells us. That it was as much as our necks and 
 estates were worth, to assume (what he before had 
 owned to be) our Right. This opened the eyes of 
 all, undeceived those that aforetime had been best 
 opinionated of him, and the next General Assembly 
 when Sett, did generally declare. They would no longer 
 submit to his Authority, but immediately assert their 
 own right, and chuse their Governour themselves : 
 Which they did ; pitching upon me. How unwil- 
 r *i2 ] lingly I yeilded to serve them ^in that station, several 
 then present cannot have forgotten ; although I was 
 satisfied of the Justice and equality of the thing, and 
 
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 that it was no evil in it self, yet it might carry 
 another aspect, with those who had only heard a 
 superficial account of it. 
 
 I have now shown, why we received, and why 
 We rejected Edw. Billings Commission ; the next is 
 to inquire, how far We (viz the Assembly and my 
 self) are criminal for it : But especially my self, who 
 (by the forgery of my Adversaries) am represented 
 to the World as a Betrayer of my trust to Billing; To 
 do which, in common understanding it must be 
 presupposed, that I acepted a trust from him, which 
 I deny ever to have done ; for what I did in accept- 
 ing his Cotnmission, was to serve the Country, and at 
 their request, as I have before shewn ; nor had I 
 any reason to do it for his sake; who was much a 
 Stranger to me, and from whom I never received 
 any reward for it, and to be yet more plain ; the 
 Infamy that he was under was such, that to serve 
 him, would have been a blemish upon my reputa- 
 tion : Yet there was a necessity that We should 
 acknowledge, that the Government was in him, 
 though but in trust, else how could We expect, 
 that he should reconvey it to the purchasers, as by 
 solemn engagements bound. So that upon the 
 whole, the trust was in Billing, and not in me, and 
 it was he that betrayed his trust, and not I ; nor can 
 I see, how any blame is justly chargeable upon me, 
 
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 or that Assembly that renounced his Authority ; see- 
 ing to have done otherwise, had been to strengthen 
 him in his, Injustice to the 'Province, or rather to 
 have made our selves Parties with him, against our 
 own Right- And now I have done with this part, 
 wherein I have been so plain and candid, as I hope 
 wil satisfie the Impartial, and for others, I regard 
 not their clamour. 
 
 And whereas the Award saies, "And aS*. Jenings 
 " as his [E. Billings'^ Deputy engaging to serve him, 
 "and preserve his interest in -that capacity &c. I 
 answer, I know of no engagement of that kind, that 
 [ *I3 ] was ever put upon me, and if *any such expression 
 did fall from my Pen, in a private letter to Billing; 
 it was, before it was discovered, that he intended to 
 set up a corrupt Interest, in opposition to the just 
 Rights of the People: For at the time he made 
 large protestations. That he would promote no other In- 
 terest than that of the Common waelt ; Which had he 
 stuck to, I should have served him in it : But can 
 any body believe, I was quite so sensless or profli- 
 gate, as to engage to serve any Interest that he 
 should promote, without any regard to the Justice 
 of it ; I hope not : But the controverting of this 
 point formerly, gave occasion to an Ingenious Friend 
 of mine to say : 
 
 He that will Judge aright, most know as well. 
 As things, the times wherein each thing befell. 
 
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 I intend to touch upon one thing more in that 
 Shatn Award that my Adversaries have Printed, and 
 so to leave it. It relates to the second Paragraph 
 of the Award, page the 3d., at the close of which 
 they note in the name of I know not who, that 
 " Whence (I suppose it should be whereas) this 
 "sentence above cited was hast/ly razed out of the 
 " Origmal the 1 1 of 8 mo. 1684.- 'Tis, our judge- 
 " ment that it were better and more clear to be in- 
 "certed. The Sentence is this. Neither do We 
 " understand that such a grant as was expected was 
 " attainable, when the 2d. grant was solicited for. 
 The design of incerting this is easily seen, to be to 
 cover Billings head, from a stroke that otherwise 
 would inevitably have fallen upon him : For, know- 
 ing that the Right of the thing sought for belonged 
 to the People, which also is acknowledged in the 
 Award, page the 2d. and 4th. ; it could not but 
 look ill in him, so much as to take it in his own 
 name, if it could have been otherwise obtained : 
 But whose judgement it is, that it were better and 
 more clear, that that Sentence should, be inserted, I know 
 not ; for they have placed it under, and after the 
 names of the Arbitrators, and I would hope, that it 
 is none of their act, nor have I any reason to believe 
 it to be so, since I am sure, there is nothing of it in 
 that they delivered to me, and I am not willing to 
 
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 [ *i4 ] entertain a thought, that after the time *was elapsed, 
 and the Award given, any of them would add to, or 
 alter, what was before so solemnoly done ; if they 
 should \ judge such an action to be Irregular, unfair 
 and Vnw arrant able, unsafe and worthy of blame in all 
 Persons concerned therein. But before I pass from 
 this, I must note, that whereas any 8 of the Award- 
 ers had power to determine, there is no more than 
 the bare number, several of those who were ap- 
 pointed, hearing little of the Case, and some none 
 at all, others were dissatisfied with the Award, and 
 thought it much too easy on Billing's part, and 
 therefore refused to sign ; And yet it will not follow, 
 but they might al be good men, and perfectly agree, 
 in all the necessary principles & fundamentals of 
 the Christian Religion, I shall shew re fully anon ; 
 and in the folly of my Adversaries, in insinuating 
 the contrary, 
 
 I have now don with the Award it self, and am 
 come to the Observations, arid Animadversions, my 
 Adversaries have made upon it, the first of which, 
 seems to be the work of some Apostate ^aker : 
 But be it as it will, my intention is to detect the 
 folly and falshood of it, where I find the Observator 
 praying h\s Reader to observe, "That by the Award 
 " of those eminent fakers (as he in scornfully calls 
 " them) " the Government was in Billing, and not in 
 
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 " the People of West-Jarsey. This is true, but the 
 matter is not so much, in whom it was, as in whom 
 it ought to be : And this was the ground of our 
 complaint against him, that he had abused us, in 
 taking it to himself, and detaining it from us. But 
 I must desire this Observator further to observe. 
 That though they did acknowledge it was in him, 
 yet not right fully, and therefore they enjoyn him 
 " To go so far as he is able, and lawfully can do to 
 their (viz the Proprietors) "just satisfaction. See 
 The Case put &c. Page the 4th. And they give rea- 
 sons for it, and great and valid ones too, as in the 
 first Paragraph page the 2d. viz " That E. Billing 
 " hath, by concessions, signed by himself, with other 
 " words and circumstances, as also by Letters Writ- 
 " ten by Gawen Lowry, Nicholas Lucas &c. to the 
 " Proprietors, given them ground to expect that they 
 "should *have and had the Government with the[*i5] 
 " Soyl. Here I confess Billing hath been too hard 
 for us ; for had We only given him an expectation 
 on the consideration ; as he did us of the Purchase, 
 We had been of equall terms with him ; and why 
 not as much reason for the one, as tlie other. But 
 to return. The first reason the Arbitrators assign 
 for his doing as aforesaid, is, because of the Conces- 
 sions made and Signed by him self, which were made 
 the bait to catch buyers, and I believe- few purchased 
 
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 before they had seen them ; which concessions 
 lodged the whole power of Government in the 
 Gener all Assembly, and were to be so inviolably ob- 
 served, that whoever shoud but atterw^t to break them, 
 was to be deemed an Enemy to the peace and Priviledges 
 of the Province : yea, so sacred were they esteemed, 
 that if any refused to sign them, they were not to be ad- 
 mitted to the possession of any Land, though before bought 
 and paid fr. Secondly The encouragement given 
 by the Sellers, in divers letters, alwaies affirming, 
 that they had the Government with the Soy I, and were 
 ready to sell, and make a good title to both. 3dly. Be- 
 cause of some words (they say) in some of their Deeds, 
 giving an expectation that the Proprietors should or 
 might have the Government or power to elect a Gover- 
 nour among themselves. Thus it is evident, that these 
 Awarders did grant. That though the Legal part of 
 the Government was in Billing ; yet, as they sup- 
 posed, the equitable part belonged to us. And though 
 they seemed to doubt, whether he could legally and 
 safely perform, to a Punctillio, all that he had given 
 us an expectation of, "yet (say they) We all agree, 
 " that he is thereby bound to perform to the Pro- 
 " prietors, so far as he legally and safely may do. 
 "And also We judge, that the said -Billing ought to 
 "go so far as he is able, and lawfully can in all 
 "things to their just satisfaction. (What is this, 
 
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 but to divest himself so far as he could, and invest 
 the Proprietors with the Government : But I know 
 they proceeded upon a notion, that this he could 
 not safely or legally do, wholly (which perhaps was 
 a thing fitter to have been argued by Lawyers) and 
 ^therefore they prescribe) " That he shall make and [ *i 6 ] 
 "confirm unto them [the Proprietors^ "such Funda- 
 " mental Laws, concessions and provisions, consonant, 
 "and not repugnant to the Laws and Government 
 " of the Realm of England, as may fully secure them 
 " from all abuses, oppressions and encroachments 
 " upon their freedoms and liberties, both as men 
 "and Christians, by and from himself; his heirs or 
 " Assigns, according to the contents of his own letter 
 "dated the 15 of 8. mo. 1680. ser^t with his last 
 "grant from the Duke. What is here enjoyned, has 
 never been performed, by Billing, nor any of his 
 Successors, which were it done (I suppose) would 
 satisfie very fully all the Proprietors, and well dis- 
 posed Inhabitants in the Province. I have insisted 
 the longer on this head fully to cle^ the point, not 
 intending to touch it any more. 
 
 What the Observator saith, of my being con- 
 demned by \hQ Awarders /or betraying my trust \ be- 
 sides that it is in its self a Falshood, dnd piece of the 
 Forgery I charge upon them, I have, said enough to 
 it already, and shall therefore pass it by, But the last 
 
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 part of this first paragraph I must detect for its fals- 
 hood, finding it there charged, "That I affirm the 
 " Government to be in the People, thereby encour- 
 " aging and exciting the people to rebellion against 
 " the present Governour, and other their lawfull Rulers, 
 " to the great obstruction of the peace and prosperity 
 "of the Province. Surely this Observator is much 
 a stranger, to the reason of the Province's not own- 
 ing the present Government (for so is the act of the 
 is Representatives) Did We break upon that foot ? 
 Nay, did We not desist from urging that point? the 
 first Assembly that sate after 'Jeremiah Basse' s arrival, 
 on purpose to try if We could come to an accom- 
 modation, and had he had the Kings approbation, 
 he had been recognized, as the minutes of that 
 Assembly will shew. Therefore this charge is as 
 wrong as falshood can make' it, to say nothing of 
 malice : Nor have I made it my business to excite 
 others to disobey the Government'. Which if I had, I 
 should have counted no Rebellion, because, I never 
 [ *I7 ] thought *the Authority, by which they acted, law- 
 full ; Which having said, shall hereafter say little 
 in my own vindication, to any charge against me, 
 for non subjection to the Government, esteeming it 
 now almost too late, for any man to give a reason 
 for that ; it's rather now their part that exercise that 
 Authority, to consider of a reason for their so doing. 
 
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 What is said in the next paragraph concerning 
 P. Fretwell and T. Gardiner, who are termed two 
 of my Minions am^ ^ondam Justices. I shall say- 
 little to, further than this, that I know divers of 
 the things suggested against them to be false, and 
 believe so of the rest, and cannot think their repu- 
 tation hurt by it, since the names of their Accusers 
 are known. However, there may be a fit time to 
 look into those things, when the wheel, I lately ad- 
 vised them to consider the motion of, has advanced its 
 nether parts a little more. Methinks, if there were 
 a Conjurer amongst them, they might have foreseen, 
 and avoided many absurdities, they have fallen into, 
 in this short liv'd Usurpation. The rest that follows, 
 with a hence it is, I shall say little to, because I per- 
 ceive they know not whence it is, that the things 
 they mention have arose. And as to that of Salem, 
 I believe they can never prove what they say, there 
 may be a time to call for it, if they can. What is 
 said concerning a great meeting, held at my Plantation 
 house in December last, I shall not gratifie my Ad- 
 versaries so much, as to give them any account of it, 
 further than in a general Way, that I hope it hath 
 not proved uneffectual. 
 
 But I would fain know What these Busy Bodies 
 have to do, to call in question the actions of that 
 Assembly, where they say, that / and my faction 
 
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 refused to sign the Association of fidelity to Ktng 
 WILLIAM? I ask my Adversaries, if they ever 
 knew any ^aker that did or could sign such an In- 
 strument? But although We could not sign that for 
 Conscience sake, something being in it, that We 
 could not comply with ; yet We did sign to a Decla- 
 ration of our Alleigance and Fidelity to the King and 
 Government, such as the Governour was pleased to 
 [ *i8 ] accept and commend, and I *suppose w^as since trans- 
 mitted to White hall, and no dislike shown to it, that 
 ever We have heard of; So t}iat I must tell them. 
 It's a saucy, as well as a busy part, for them to med- 
 dle with it. But the great charge is yet behind 
 viz That I am a great facobite : This is not the P irst 
 time that these fools have been nibling at this; but 
 finding their proof formerly t-o be gouty and lame, 
 they let it fall, but now renew it again, thinking 
 themselves cock sure, and that they can prove it 
 with a Witness, which they thus attempt to do y'lz. 
 " He covenants with those ro whom he sells his 
 " Land, in their Deeds, to pay their QuitRents to 
 " the late King James, a known Enemy to the King- 
 " dom ; this all who pleaj-e may see recorded in the 
 " Registers Office at Burlington. This is a piece of 
 pure envy, as well as folly; whether it hath any 
 shadow of truth in it T know not. It's long since I 
 signed any 4eed : But suppose it to be true ; where's 
 
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 the offence ? The Quit Rents belonged to him 
 when Duke, and were none of the Revenues of the 
 Crown. But to expose my Adversaries a little, let 
 us consider how considerable these profits may be, 
 which I have been so carefull to secure to King 
 James. I suppose, by what I have heard from 
 others, it's not more than one Deed, of the many I 
 have executed, that's thus faulty, and that perhaps 
 for one hundred acres, or perhaps less; for I am 
 wholly a Stranger to it on my own knowledge, but 
 suppose it should be two hundred; What will it 
 amount to f Our whole Province pays but Tenn 
 Nobles a year to the Lord oi the Soy I, be it to whom 
 it will : So that this proportion will hardly be a half 
 penny in twenty years. Now judge Reader, This is 
 the test, they say, I have given of my being a "Jaco- 
 bite ; I am sure, they have given a far greater of their 
 malice, and sometimes I have thought, that it was 
 necessary, that such a day as this, should be put into 
 the hands of these and such like men, that they 
 might fully discover themselves, which being done, 
 they might receive the correction of their own Folly, 
 and all men might abhor them. 
 
 *In the next place I am charged with having got \ *jq 1 
 a'^ay the Book of the Laws of the Province, for proof 
 of which they say my Yriend H. Grubb informs them 
 so. I shall leave this to Henry to accuitj- himself as 
 
 I The original corrected, probably by the author's pen, to acquit. 
 
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 he can, for be sure he denies it to me ; but what- 
 ever he saies, I say it's false, and so much for that. 
 
 I am now come to my Observator s Lastly, which 
 I suppose was reserved for a Clintcher, and saies " It 
 "is not to be doubted, but when a Committee of 
 "both houses did debate S. Jenings and his Parties 
 "pretentions to the Government, at the Assembly 
 "held in November 1697. It did inspire great 
 " boldness to yenings and his Faction to proceed as 
 " they have done, that the then G'gvernour Hamilton 
 " did plead so stifly for them and their pretended 
 " Right, and had not one word to offer on behalf of 
 " the Society, for which his Zeal, on their account, 
 "and against the Society, they hon'estly answered his 
 "expectation with a present of 200 pound. Me- 
 thinks, how lavishly soever, thay had used their 
 tongues and Pen.s against me, thqy might have 
 spared, our late Governoiir, especially being absent. 
 But, certainly this is suffered, th^t the world may 
 know, therf folly, rage and rudeness of these men, to 
 be such, as that there is nothing so mean, unmanly 
 and base, that they wil stick at, if they can but hope, 
 thereby to malign and injure those to whom they 
 are disaffected : But seeing it is so generally expected 
 and desired, that Collonell Hamilton's approach to this 
 Place, may be near, I shall say the less to it; but 
 must say so much. That he is much traduced and 
 
 f The original corrected, probably by the author's pen, to the. 
 
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 abused in it ; nor do I believe, thaf any body, be- 
 sides these three or four men, whom prejudice hath 
 thus corrupted, will or can say, that in that confer- 
 ence, any thing fell from Collon. Hamilton, indecent 
 or disregardfull towards the Society. But to render it 
 a Compact or Combination (which i!t must needs be 
 if I understand their dark sentences) is such a piece 
 of villany, as none, but those of their own herd, 
 would offer to suggest : For if the Governour ex- 
 pected, and We honestly answered his expedation, with 
 a "^Present of 200 ^ound, for the reasons aforesaid, I [ *2o 1 
 can make no other construction of it'* But however, 
 I hope I shall now ride quietly, and injoy the use 
 of my Horse, without further reflection ; for if the 
 200 pound, was given upon the consideration they 
 have now assigned, then it was not for the Horse, 
 and they must be mistaken in one: But what if it 
 was for neither? Which I believe no body- doubts 
 but themselves, how ill then do they deserve, at the 
 hands of those they have thus stigmatized ? And 
 therefore it will be their wisdom (in my opinion) 
 to make sure of their evidence ,for what they assert, 
 against the time that it may be required of them. 
 I shall not trace my Observaton much further, having 
 followed him to the Mobb here, and scum of England; 
 where I intend to leave him, as very fit company for 
 him, if I am not much mistaken in my guess. 
 
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 I am now come to their Animadversions, and I 
 hope near a close of my work, finding it now almost 
 out of season, to controvert the matters therein con- 
 tained ; Providence having found out a much better 
 way of decision than that of any man's Pen : For 
 since the main design and end of them, is, like so 
 many shores, to support their tottering Authority, 
 which I now see is like to fall flatt, maugre all their 
 Props, it makes me the less concerned to remove 
 them ; yet not wholly to pasg, them by, I shall re- 
 duce them to these following heads, which I think 
 comprehend most of the matter contained in them : 
 And since the Award is the foundation on which 
 they are built, I having already shown the Injustice 
 and Injury done to me, by the Forgeries and False- 
 hoods, contained in what they have Printed, and called 
 the Award, I shall pass t/^at by and consider. 
 
 1. Their charge of Non-Conformity to the Award. 
 
 2. The emptiness of their silly conceit, and false, as 
 well as foolish suggestion ; That, Because our Friends 
 Hold and maintain, a necessity of the Immediate 
 guidance of Gods Holy Spi'rit, in all Religious 
 Performances ; that therefore it must follow. That 
 We pretend the same in all our civil affairs ; Which 
 is on their part to prove. 
 
 [*2i ] *3. That every dissent in opinion from the Judge- 
 ment of each other in things natural and common, pro- 
 
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 ceeds from a spirit of error, and is matter of scandall 
 and disgrace. 
 
 4. That We Preach up our FrieAds as the Messen- 
 gers of Truth and not inferiour to any of the Holy 
 Apostles. 
 
 5. Their repeated charge of Rebellion " and that I 
 " should tell the present Governour to his face. That I 
 "neither liked him nor his Commission, did there- 
 "fore from thenceforth denounce perpetual hostility 
 "against him, and should not cease to make War 
 " npon him, until I had driven him oUt of the Gov- 
 " ernment. 
 
 6. Whether Jeremiah ^2^%%^ had the Kings appro- 
 bation, according to the true intent of a late Act of 
 Parliament, in that Case provided. 
 
 7. How far it concerns us to inquire into it- 
 
 8. Whether they or We have transgressed the late Act 
 I?/' Parliament, as it is suggested, we have done. 
 
 And lastly, Their indecency, after all their abuses, to 
 take upon them, to act a Religious part. 
 
 First. Their charge against me and my Friends, for 
 N on- Conformity to the Award. To the which I an- 
 swer. Neither Billing, nor his Successors, did ever 
 perform their part, as I have before shewn, and our 
 part depending upon a condition never performed 
 on their part, I take to be a Release to us. How- 
 ever our not recognizing the pjesent Government, 
 
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 was never on that foot, as i^ plain from what is 
 already said. 
 
 2. T/ie emptiness of their silly conceit, and false, as 
 well as foolish suggestion ; That, Because our Friends, 
 do hold and maintain, a necessity of the Immediate guid- 
 ance and assistance of Gods Holy Spirit, in all Religious 
 performances ; that therefore it must follow, that We 
 pretend the same, in all our civil- and common concerns, 
 which is on their parts to prove. And if they fail in 
 this supposition, which is the foundation of all their 
 structure ; then the inferences drawn from it, must 
 be unnatural, weak and idle : And that they are 
 mistaken in this, I affirm, and charge it upon them 
 
 *22 ] as a *falsehuod ; let them acquit themselves if they 
 can. 
 
 3. That every dissent in opinion, from the Judgement 
 of each other, in things natural and common, proceeds 
 
 from a spirit of err our, and is matter of scandal & dis- 
 grace. This being another inference, drawn from 
 that false supposition, must fall with it, and be num- 
 bred amongst the rest of the falsehoods and abuses 
 put upon us. Surely these Adversaries, had shewn 
 more wit, as well as honesty, if they had not per- 
 sonated the fakers, and spoke so many things in 
 their name, till they had known them, and their 
 Principles better. 
 
 4. That We preach up our Friends, as the Messengers 
 
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 of Truth, and not infer ionr to any of the holy Apostles. 
 That We own our Friends as the Messengers of truth. 
 That are employed in the Gospel Ministry, is true. 
 And let me ask them. Pray whose Messengers are 
 your Ministers, if not Messengers of Truth ? But that 
 We preach, or believe them, not to be inferiour to any 
 of the Holy Apostles ; I utterly deny, and if my Ad- 
 versaries cannot prove it, I must call this a falsehood 
 also. 
 
 5. That I should tell the present Governour to his 
 face. That I neither liked him, nor his Commission &c' 
 And what of all this; I believe I might say that, or 
 something like it, and when all is done ; How will 
 he help himself? But I suppose this is a fault, my 
 Adversaries are little guilty of, viz., to speak their 
 resentments to the faces oi \}i\€\x Adversaries : They 
 are too full of falshood and flattery for that. But 
 that I should say, / did therefore from thenceforth de- 
 nounce perpetual hostility against him, and should not 
 cease to make war upon him until I had driven hi^n out 
 of the Government ; is a notorious B — , there being 
 at the same time and place, I believe, not less than 
 a dozen persons, who heard what discourse passed, 
 betwixt Jeremiah Basse and me^ and believe none 
 beside J. B. himself, will say. That I said any such 
 thing : Could I and some others whom they malign, 
 have used that liberty, I believe those arrogant In- 
 
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 suiters might sooner have been reduced to better 
 *23 ] manners : *But upon his telling me. He beheved I 
 would use my endeavours to remove him from the Gov- 
 erjiment, and bring in Coll. Hamilton again; I did 
 tell him. That he had a shrewd hand at guessing, and 
 that he might depend upon it. And though I hope it's 
 nigh to be effected, yet I cannot be so vain as to 
 imagine, that any interest that I could make either 
 pro or con could be much available ; however I own, 
 my hearty wishes, with many others, have been for 
 it, and nothing willingly omitted, that might con- 
 tribute to it, the benefit of which (I hope) We shall 
 soon have the enjoyment of. 
 
 6. Whether Jeremiah Basse had the Kings approba- 
 tion, accordng to the true intent of a late Act of Parlia- 
 mcnt, in that case provided. To "which I shall Presume 
 to make no other answer, thaa what the Provincial 
 General Assembly have done, at their two last sittings. 
 At the first of which, to the best of my remembrance 
 it was Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, "That he had 
 " not the Kings approbation, neither as the Act of 
 " Parliament directs, nor after ^ny other or circum- 
 " stantial manner, and for that reason refused to 
 " recognize him Governour. And though some 
 few that were Members of that Assembly, did after- 
 wards crouch, after a base and" beggarly, treacherous 
 manner, for thet sake of places of profit or honour. 
 
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 and some of these very persons, were again upon the 
 last Assembly, yet the number did hot exceed five 
 out of near fifty, but what declared themselves as 
 much dissatisfied at this sitting, as they were at the 
 former, in the case aforesaid. 
 
 But how vain and frivolous their arguments, de- 
 duced from the case of the late Governour Hamilton, 
 Because, he was not approved nor sworn according to 
 the Act, which took place sometime before he was super- 
 seded; is very obvious, and his case with Jeremiah 
 Basse's holds no paralel. For when Colonel Hamil- 
 ton was enstalled Governor, there was no such Act, 
 and his Authority was good without it, and this Act 
 was never transmitted hither, by order of the Crown, 
 to weaken it; So that it remained good still, and he 
 was not ^obliged to know, that there was any such [ ^24 J 
 Act in being, unless it had been sent, as aforesaid. 
 And as to his not obtaining a Dedimus Potestatem, 
 to enable him to take the Oath &c. I think it had 
 been a very preposterous thing in hirA to have sought 
 it; It was as much as concerned him, to have obeyed 
 the commands of his Sovereign, when required; 
 Which, I dare say, he would never have refused: 
 But this being never done, nor any law appearing 
 to enjoin it, I think it not improper to use the old 
 maxim viz. Where there is no Law, there is no trans- 
 gression. But this is none of Jeremiah Basse's case; 
 
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 He comes immediately out of England, where he 
 might, and ought to know, and doubt less did know, 
 that there was such an Act in forte, and that it was 
 his duty to obey it, and that his Authority could not 
 be good without it; Yet notwithstanding presumes 
 (he saies by advice of some of those he calls his 
 Council) to publish his Commission, and impose his 
 Authority upon us; to which I shall have occasion 
 to speak a little more anon. "But (say my Op- 
 "ponents) 'tis manifest by the Dedimus Potestatem, 
 " which the now Governour brought along with him 
 — that he comes to this Government, approved of 
 by his. Majesty Now they begin to bring out their 
 strong reasons; but let us try them a little' That 
 Instrument, did no more but give power, to persons 
 within named, to administer the Oath, to the Gov- 
 ernour for the time being: That might have been 
 any body else, as well as him, and to be sure could 
 never be intended for him, seeing it was given, at 
 least three months before thedate of his commission, 
 and it's most probable, was committed to the care 
 of the Society of JVest-Jersey, to be by them sent 
 hither, for the service intended. So that; if his 
 being the Messenger, to bring the Dedimus Potes- 
 tatem hither, be a manifest and undeniable proof of 
 the Kings approbation, I must yeild the point; and 
 thus I leave it What they say of "His Instructions 
 
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 " from the Lords 'Justices, signed by the Lords Com- 
 " missiofiers of the Treasury~KnA a letter from his 
 " Majesty, addressed to him in the stile of Governour 
 "oi New Jarsey (as also) the printed Gd^zets, pub- [ *25 ] 
 " lished by Authority, wherein his Majesties appro- 
 " bation of him, for the Gouvernouf oi the Jarseys 
 " was davertized, and several other writings, Instru- 
 " ments and Testimonials, which (they say) are as so 
 "many unquestionable vouchers and irrefragable 
 "proofs; that he comes to his Gouvernment ap- 
 proved of by his Majestey, according to the said Act 
 of Parliament. I say, all this I know nothing of, 
 and knowing the Asserters so well, have no reason 
 to credit it. Nor do I believe, that any of the 
 writings or Instruments aforesaid, had any particu- 
 lat relation to him; but were intended to the Gov- 
 ernour for the time being. So thar I see no reason 
 (from all that they have offered to prove his appro- 
 bation) to recede from my former opinion ; That 
 he neither had, or, which is more, is never like to 
 have it. 
 
 7thly How far it concerns us to ins^pect whether he 
 hath or hath it not. 
 
 I have alwaies observed, these have been the two 
 meanj" Engines, these 'Jani'iaries have used, to batter 
 down the opposition they have met with, to their 
 Authority. First, They would labour to perswade 
 
 f Corrected, at an early time, by a penman to main. 
 
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 that he had the Kings approbation, if not so formally as 
 the Act directs, yet he had what was tantamount to it. 
 But if this beat-\ would not take, then the second 
 was, It concerns none here to enquire or look into it ; 
 Is he the less a Gouvernour if he wants it? He only 
 forfeits his thousand pounds. I confess I could never 
 be brought over to this opinion, and that for this 
 reson ; That seeing it hath seemed meet to the 
 wisdom of England, to enact. That no subject shall 
 be any longer permitted, to -appoint a Gouvernour 
 over their fellow subjects, without the Royal appro- 
 bation, and allowance declared in the said Act: 
 Who is he that shall dare presume, to commission 
 any person, at any time, to exercise the necessary 
 Regalin's of Government? Or who is he that being 
 so commissioned, dares to exercise such Authority 
 without it ? Is not this to bid defiance to the Au- 
 thority of England; especially since America is ex- 
 pressly within the intent of the Act. 
 \ *26 ] '^But (say they) the Act relates to trade, and not to 
 Government, But I must tell them. That what be- 
 longs to the constitution of a Governour, must needs 
 very sensibly affect the Government, if the having 
 a well qualified Governour, be any advantage to a 
 Government, or if to have an ill one, be the con- 
 trary. And farther, I think it looks a little un- 
 handsome, if not disloyal, for them to suggest, That 
 
 •f Corrected to bait. 
 
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 the King regards the advantages of trade more than 
 the weal of his subjects; For as Parents value their 
 Children above their Inheritances, or Worldly ad- 
 vantages, so we ought to beleive, that the King as 
 Father of all his subjects, in a Political sense, more 
 regards their well being, than all the advantages of 
 trade. Why should we not then thankfully embrace 
 the Kings bounty to us, who will himself be satisfied, 
 who, or what they are, that are so posted, and not 
 suffer every little fellow, to make his Insults over 
 his Subjects. And I still hold rriy opinion. That if 
 any shall attempt it, it is most lawfull, and loyal for 
 the People not to submit to their Authority who 
 pretend to any so high as that of a Governour, espe- 
 cially by their Representatives, when legally met 
 together; in whom resides a considerable share of 
 the necessary powers of Government, and who must 
 act along with him, if any thing in Legislation be 
 acted. So that I am still of opinion. That it very 
 much concerns them to be satisfied, in order to their 
 own safety, as well as preservation of their Previ- 
 ledges, whom they joyn with, in acts of so high a 
 nature, and to do otherwise were supine negligence, 
 and unworthy of the trust to which they were 
 elected. I shall not follow them further on this 
 subject at this time, believing thef Pen-man has lost 
 his labour bestowed thereon, and that his sophistical 
 
 f The third letter of this word is obliterated and altered to e. 
 
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 endeavours will prove abortive, as most of his pro- 
 jects have hitherto done. 
 
 Yet I shall take a little notice of the slant blow, 
 they give at such little souls as Samuel Jenings; 
 which I could very well have passed by, but that I 
 thought it was a fit opportunity to lay hold of, to 
 r*27lshew the magnanimity of *these great towering 
 Counsellours : Who upon the report of Coll. Ham- 
 iltons being superseded by Jeremiah Basse, did ex- 
 press their resentments of it with great reluctancy, 
 were the first that moved Coll. Hamilton to convene 
 the Assembly, to consider if any thing could be done, 
 to prevent so miserable an exchange: When the 
 Assembly met, were the men that solemnly promised 
 to the Governour and Assembly, to use their Interest, 
 if yeremiah Bdsse should arrive, under the circom- 
 stances as was reported before an other Assembly, to 
 disswade him from publishing his Commission, till 
 we heard again from the Society in England, to whom 
 we had written, and that Coll: Hamilton s Commission 
 might not be thereby superseded. How real they 
 were and how they have acquitted themselves like 
 men of common honesty, to mention nothing higher, 
 is so well known in these part-s, as renders an infor- 
 mation useless. But before I have done with this, 
 I must give another instance, of the fidelity and 
 greatness of these men; in wich I must make a 
 
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 little digression, while I inform, or rather remind 
 my Reader, That, the controversy betwixt the Sucess- 
 oiirs of Billing, and the Proprietors here, was never 
 yet determined; which hath occasioned jarrs and 
 misunderstandings, to be kept on foot betwixt them 
 and us; to prevent which for the future, these great 
 souls did agree, at the then Governours motion, to- 
 gether to write a perswasive Letter to the Society, 
 to grant us what we requested, and believed was 
 our right: This was performed, signed by the Goi;- 
 ernoiir aud his Council (of wich these men were a 
 part) delivered in to the house oi Representatives, to 
 be sent to England, and accordingly was sent; Yet 
 these very men, my present Adversaries, sent another 
 privately about the same time, to disswade the per- 
 sonf that both they and we had addressed, as afore- 
 said, from granting our request. Now what thinkest 
 thou, Reader, of the size of these mens souls I* Had 
 they dealt thus with a private person, it had been 
 very detestable; but to do it to a Province, is a 
 thing so unaccountable, I shall leave it without *a [ *28 ] 
 name. 
 
 8thly Wether they or we have transgressed the Act 
 of Parliament as it is suggested we have done. This 
 is so plain a case, that I shall leave it to the decision 
 of my Reader, having said so much already on this 
 head : But if to contend for obedience to the re- 
 
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 quirings of the Act, be a Transgression of it, we 
 will submit to their charge. 
 
 Lastly, Their Indecency, after all their abuses, to take 
 upon them to act a Religious part. This puts me in 
 mind of the old Proverb, viz When the Fox begins to 
 preach, beware the geese. The best of it is, there is 
 not many here, that much affect the Religion of these 
 men, but especially that of the Penn-man ; if yet he 
 may be supposed to have any at all. But that nothing 
 might be wanting, that falsehood aud flattery could 
 furnish them withal, they pretend, that what they 
 do, is, in tenderness to jhe people and inhabitants 
 of the Province of West-New-y'arsey; than which 
 nothing could be more remote from them, and is so 
 apparent, that I think none by these means will bef 
 deceived by them. 
 
 And now for Conclusion : I shall (as I have prom- 
 ised) touch a little upon the last paper these men 
 posted against me ; which I find so full of scurrility 
 and railery - that I scarce know where to touch it 
 without fouling my fingers. It doth indeed render 
 them Mesters o/' their Art, and the extravagancy of 
 their abuses to me in it are sueh, as makes it the 
 less needfull for me to make any defence against it. 
 For when any have so debaucht-their tongues or 
 pens, as to have no regard to the truth of what 
 
 "j" Last letter obliterated, and by thepen made an e. 
 
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 heyf say or write, instead of blemishing those with 
 whom they contend, they brighten them, and only 
 hit themselves a box on the ear: For which reason, 
 I can very contentedly be silent, to all the scorn, 
 reproach and falsehood they would disguise me 
 with; knowing that men of candour will see-for 
 themselves, and not be imposed upon by such no- 
 torious, ungenerous and sneaking Adversaries. 
 
 I perceive they are uneasy, that I still insist upon 
 *my charge oi forgery against them, from which I F *2g 1 
 shall never acquit them, nor will all-their shuffling, 
 wrigling, twisting and twining extricate them from 
 the guilt of it. They ask a question of me, which 
 I cannot answer viz "Did we receive or forge the 
 Award? They might be guilty of the worst part 
 of it, for ought I know: But as I have said before; 
 it concerns not me to enquire how they came by 
 it, but they printed and published it, forged as it is, 
 and on whom should I charge the guilt of this foul 
 act, but on them, the justice of which, I leave to 
 the censure of my Reader. 
 
 Their reflections upon those judicious persons 
 that I mentioned, whom they render Comical; and 
 lanus like with to^ faces each, I shall not meddle with ; 
 knowing them to be sufficiently able to make their 
 own defence, if they think themselves abused by it. 
 
 •j- The letter t has been added by the pen before hey. 
 t By a pen changed to two. 
 
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 I find they would have the world beleive, and 
 therefore say "They solemnly declare [that what 
 " they have done] was not from any resentment or 
 " disaffection to me, or any other particular person 
 "or persons. To which I shall not answer a word, 
 but leave my Reader free, to judge of the truth of 
 it upon perusah I judge, with the like sincerity 
 they mention the Awarders, with a shew of respect; 
 which serves only as a further discovery of their hy- 
 pocrisy, who have at times, so freely expressed re- 
 sentments against fakers in general. But they 
 proceed to point at othes .-}■ under the same denomi- 
 nation, " who for their Probity, Veracity, or other 
 "wise, conparedj with them, will not appear better 
 " than spurious, a reproach to the name, but as boils 
 " and botches to the body they hypocritically pre- 
 "tend to. Here I am willing (though not for their 
 merit) to spare a little those common tools who signed 
 along with the Pen-man ; believing, that in reality 
 they have been little more concerned, than the Cat, 
 that it's fabled, the Monkey made use of the Paw of 
 for hot service^ to save his own. Bnt to return, 
 Methinks this man should have been very cautious 
 [ *30 ] of ^exhibiting such a charge against others, know- 
 ing his own circumstances ; apd how well they are 
 
 ■}" By a pen changed to others. 
 J By a pen changed to compared. 
 § An s has been added by a pen. 
 
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 known to others here ; Who for his — has been spued 
 out of the most corrupt body pretending to Christi- 
 anity, or Hke a both^ or scab dropt from it: And 
 though I know he would thus mask it, viz. That it 
 is allowable and commendable for men to reform; 
 yet his not attempting it till under Impeachment 
 carries no good nor honest aspect with it. 
 
 And here I should breake off and conclude, were 
 it not that I am charged with murther; I am glad 
 that the charge is no higher than murthering English 
 and sense \ better so than to murther English in the 
 worst sense. But here I must tread softly, least it 
 revive old jealousies, and look to my own safety; 
 being threatned (though I hope it is not ominous) 
 in these words. " There fore shall evil come upon thee, 
 " thou shalt not know from whence it riseth ; and mis- 
 " chief shall fall upon thee, thou shalt not be able to put 
 " it off. I hope my Adversary may be mistaken ; 
 but if it should be otherwise, I "should not be the 
 first, that has been suspected to fall after that meane^ 
 nor have I any GOLD to spare to allay his furie or 
 Purchass his favor. But still my trust andconfidence 
 is in that Arm I mentioned in my first, and shall 
 conclude with it in his§ knowing that in the end, it 
 will be too strong for all its Opposers and Deriders. 
 
 s: y. 
 
 -j- By a pen changed to botch. J Corrected in ink to manner. 
 
 § Altered in ink to this. 
 
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 Advertisement. 
 
 Tf my Reader shall enquire why the Publication 
 of this hath been so long delayd ; I answer, that 
 the Coppie was ready for the press some months 
 agoe, but I being absent from theSe parts the greatest 
 part of the time. Could not be advised with those 
 that had the Care and management of the press 
 thought needfull, for which reason the finishing of 
 it was suspended till my return. 
 
 I hope my Reader will not be fFoendedj- at those 
 I ronicall expressions that have been extorted from 
 me on this occasion I think my usage from my 
 adversaries hath been such as may excuse it,'^ the 
 subject matter make it necessary, if it be any offence 
 to them (as they began this Controversie in the Press) 
 so they have their libertie to make their defence 
 there, which if they thinck fit to do; I shall not 
 fail (God Willing) to meet them there agoine.§ 
 
 Burlington, the 14 of the 9 mo. 1699. S; J. 
 
 ■j" Corrected by penman to oiFended. 
 J The word and has been added in ink. 
 § Changed by a pen to again. 
 
^ppentriit. 
 
POSTED PAPERS. 
 
 The originals of the following papers ate alluded to on page 40 
 of this book. Jenings there states that, after the publication of 
 the pamphlet of The Case Put and Decided, he published a kw 
 lines in manuscript declaring that what was published in print in 
 the said pamphlet as the Award was spurious and false, and adds 
 that his said paper occasioned the publishing of divers other man- 
 uscript publications on each side. The originals of these manu- 
 script papers were posted in a public place! in Burlington. Copies 
 of them must have been circulated in manuscript. Such proceed- 
 ings constituted the publication of manuscripts in a time and place 
 when printing was difficult and rare. The manuscript from 
 which the following papers are printed \i derived from the Pem- 
 berton papers. With the exception of the endorsement, it is 
 written by one person, and is evidently intended to be circulated 
 from hand to hand. The papers contained therein were written 
 and published in the time which elapsed between the publications 
 of the two printed pamphlets which are reprinted in the book. 
 
 The first paper is dated on the 28th day of the First Month, 
 1699, that is to say, on March 28th, 1699. The second paper is 
 dated March 31st, 1699, and expressly states that the first paper was 
 posted by Jenings. The third paper is dated on the ist day of the 
 Second Month, 1699, that is to say, April ist, 1699, and expressly 
 States that the second paper had been posted by its authors. 
 
 The precise date of the publication of The Case Put and De- 
 cided can only be approximated. There can be little doubt, how- 
 ever, that the months of January and February, 1698-9, included 
 the period in which it was published. Jenings's advertisement at 
 
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 the end of The Truth Rescued is dated on the 14th of the Ninth 
 Month, 1699. His pamphlet must have been written between 
 April 1st and November 14th of that year. 
 
 Burlington, the 28 -^ 1699. 
 
 Meeting very lately with a libel entituled the 
 Case put & decided etc. designed to betray the world 
 into a belief that its founded upon an award of sev- 
 eral of mv friends given in London the 1 1*^.*? J- 1684 
 
 J o mo. 
 
 and finding myself and divers others egregiously 
 abused in the sd libel I have thought fit at present 
 to right myself etc. 
 
 And do hereby declare to all persons that what 
 in that libel is sd to be the award of those psons 
 whose names they have subjoyned to it is spurious 
 and false in divers of the most considerable passages 
 in it & the variations additions & ommissions there- 
 in seeme not to be by accident but designe the 
 better to answer the end thereof I know not yet 
 who I have to deale with as the author or authors 
 of it I can only Gess at the Point but I suppose the 
 publishers thereof may without much dificulty be 
 found out & spoken with in a conveniant time and 
 place but let this suffice at present if I find it worth 
 my while I may give answer to the whole meane 
 time what I heare assert I will rhake good and sat- 
 isfye any sober enquirer & rest satisfyed in this that 
 truth will out live & out weigh all falshoods and 
 
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 since my opponent or opponents are so brazen faced 
 not only to publish such foolish falshoods to the 
 world (wch they might reasonably suppose I could 
 detect) but have also faced theire frontispiece with 
 scripture I also in curtesie will return them a scrip-' 
 ture or two which shall conclude this. 
 Job: 13 ch: 4 v: Ye are forgers of lyes 
 Pas. 119 V 69 the proud have forged a lye agt me 
 Saml Jennings 
 
 Burling: 31 March 1699 
 
 That smal treatise lately publis-hed entituled The 
 Case put etc was exam and allowed of by authority 
 and an Imprimater was ordered accordingly when 
 it was sent to the press what occasioned the ommis- 
 sion the printer can best give account 
 
 The scope of that treatise was" to undeceive the 
 deceived and either reclaime the Imposters them- 
 selves or at least damp in some measure theire per- 
 nicious progres for this we judged the Q__ award a 
 prop medium that the friends here seeing theire prac- 
 tices condemned by theire most antient & renowned 
 friends in England might at least bethink themselves 
 and make a solid Judgmt both of the evil they have 
 been acting agt themselves & the publick and of 
 these the Instrumts also that have deluded them & 
 abused theire love theire good oppinion & credulity 
 to such [ill] purposes 
 
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 But Saml Jening in the pap he hath posted objects 
 that the award as now published is.spurious etc. tho it 
 has the Qrs in Engl: to evince to evince for its legiti- 
 macy & as received from theire hands so was trans- 
 mitted hither for Information & is by us made publick 
 for the same and without the leaist variation but if 
 that wch we have lately heard Saml hath by him & 
 hitherto kept concealed from the people be more 
 genuine let him expose it to publick views &c we 
 do hereby engage to demonstrate whatever animad- 
 versions we have maide upon the award we have 
 published may be applyed to that he yet hides & 
 deduced from thence as necessarie conclusions from 
 theire premises and that both the' one and the other 
 will equaly vouch for all material assertions & prop- 
 ositions incerted by us in the sd animadversions and 
 farther that not any thing is couched in the said 
 printed award no not even that noted reflection 
 upon Saml in capital letters but what we will prove 
 to be true when occation shall require and this in a 
 more large & comprehensive sence then the words 
 in the place do import; but what truly is so mani- 
 fest or fact so notorious that a hardned obstinacy & 
 a long seasoned arrogancy cannot deny the degene- 
 racy now in this kind among some sort of men is 
 such that the conterary practice when met with there 
 is almost surprizeing So the conclution of this mans 
 
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 pap (wch amounts to no more than Those lyes and 
 wch as his best argument to confute what we have 
 said he has oratour like wisely reserved for the 
 last place) may be as justly retorted upon himself as 
 he hath unjustly and indeed Irreligiously charged 
 the same upon us, prophanely abused scripture phrase 
 to authorize his lyes wherefore as he cannot but be 
 conscious to him self so they shall in due time by us 
 be further exposed & detected for the service of 
 those who have been held in a miserable bigotted 
 captivity by such topping malignants that delivered 
 from theire blind thraldome they may see with 
 theire own eyes & depend upon theire own sences 
 for the conduct & warrantie of theire own actions 
 which of late by the Instigation of evil men that 
 have the ascendant over theire spirits have proved 
 so Injurious to the publick & dangerous to them- 
 selves. 
 
 Jon Tatham 
 Tho Revel 
 vera cop. Nat. Westland 
 
 Bur: I — qo 
 
 mo. ^ ' 
 
 I pceive the publicacon of those few lines lately 
 in my own vindicacon & deteqting the notorious 
 falshoods & forgeries in that libel of the Case put 
 etc: hath created an uneasines in some psons wch 
 hath occationed the posting another pap under the 
 
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 hands of J. T: T R: & N. W: all that I find com- 
 mendable in it is the puting theire hands to it but 
 the more to raise the credit of theire undertakeing 
 (of wch I suppose there was need enough) they 
 now tell us that the aforesd libel was alowed of by 
 authority and an Imprimater was ordered accord- 
 ingly when it was sent to the press but still they 
 leave us in the dark & tell us not what the authority 
 was but if they had any for it they have so far the 
 advantage of me who know no 'authority nor pre- 
 tend to any that can warrant me in raiseing & pub- 
 lishing scandels forgeries & falshoods upon my 
 neighbours besides I have great reason to beleive 
 that all the pretenders to authority here have been 
 either active or aiding in this work & how prepos- 
 terous & rediculous is it for any to paint the face of 
 authority upon theire own work I shall submit to 
 the censure of the Ingenious. 
 
 They say the scope of the treatise was to unde- 
 ceive the deceived and either reclaime the Impos- 
 tors themselves or at least damp in some measure 
 theire pernitious progres & for this they judged the 
 Ques award a prop medium but they shold have 
 been sure of it then & not hav'e printed another 
 thing & called it so, & here I stand resolved to hold 
 them till they can acquit themselves more fairely 
 & rationaly then yet they have done wch is all but 
 
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 silly trifeling for what they have printed as such is 
 either truly the award or it is not if it be not then 
 there can be no reason to recede from what in my 
 other pap I Charged them with nor must they ex- 
 pect to find Credit with the Juditious in saying that 
 it hath the Quakers in England to evince for its 
 legitimacy and as received from theire hands so was 
 transmitted hither etc. 
 
 This I take to be a bold & rash affirmation shold 
 I call it an untruth though never so modestly phaps 
 it might anger them and yet they put a great hard- 
 ship upon me by laying so many of them in my 
 way that I can hardly step over them yet they are 
 not pleased I shold remove them or say what they 
 be but to return. 
 
 As to the truth of the above they must needs 
 depend upon some bodies credit & if that faile them 
 where are they then they were none of them there 
 themselves when & where the award was given but 
 so was I & received it from the awarders own hands 
 farthermore I suppose they pretend not to an orrigi- 
 nal but so is mine actualy signed by the awarders 
 and is faire without any blot or interliniation which 
 renders it Impossible to have been viciated the truth 
 of which I have satisfied divers judicious persons in 
 and am still ready to do thus far have I the advan- 
 tage of my adversaries for the credit of the true 
 
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 award from wch what they have publisht so ma- 
 terially differs that I had reason enough to call it 
 as I did & still do spurious & falce an,d though they 
 say that it suffered not the least variacon from them 
 this may be true but its more than I know & 
 therefore shall leave it to go as far as it will, if what 
 I have here said be not convinceing to my adversa- 
 ries yet I am sure it will to others for whose sake 
 I have done it. 
 
 But before we part I must take notice of the pru- 
 dence & discretion of my adversaries (to say nothing 
 of theire veracity for that I know the care not to 
 heare of) in that remarkable passage after haveing 
 censured my concealing the award from the people 
 wch by the way I must tell theni is besides theire 
 busines haveing mostly crept in" here since those 
 things were transacted neither do I think myself 
 accountable to them for that but say they we do 
 hereby engage to demonstrate that whatever ani- 
 madvercons we have made upon that award we 
 have published may be applyed to that he yet hides 
 & deduced from thence as necessary conclutions 
 from theire premises etc. 
 
 Me thinks this looks like Jack at a pinch I be- 
 lieve they are angry indeed that I have kept the 
 award to this time & now to make this use of it 
 (wch if I mistake not doth a little blacken them) 
 
& I beleive by this time are algiost hartles of re- 
 triveing the reputation they have lost by that blun- 
 der but however if it will not do one way they will 
 make it do another if what they say in theire book 
 be falce in fact tliey will make it true by necessary 
 conclutions but they are to rember we are not come 
 to that yet we are now upon the enquirie whether 
 I have wronged them in my charge if I have not 
 (wch I see nothing in theire whole fardle to prove 
 I have) why are they angry let tjiem first yeild this 
 point wch I intend they shall before I pass to a sec- 
 ond & then I shall be ready to answer to that but 
 how do they know how applicable theire animad- 
 versions are to this concealed an'd hidden award I 
 am afraid that this also is a forward step & had need 
 to be retracted for what men in theire sences wold 
 engage to demonstrate such a thing while they pre- 
 tend to be Ignorant of the award itself I shall pas 
 by theire many reflections & lea've my reader free 
 to make a Judgmt of the controversie so far as it is 
 exposed to publick veiwe & for conclution of this 
 shall borrow a sentence of theires what truly is so 
 manifest or fact so notorious that a hardned obsti- 
 nacy and a long seasoned arrogancy cannot deney 
 me thinks this falls so sencibly from them that it 
 must needs proceed from antient experience & 
 
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 therefore I will not undertake to cope with them 
 about it. 
 
 They seem much displeased that I shold have 
 any Interest or esteeme amongst my own friends 
 They need not trouble themselves about that for 
 what I have is so founded that they cannot rase it 
 I know I am theire greife but I am not very solici- 
 tous about it my comfort & my sanctuary is in that 
 arme that gives bounds to the sea and limits to men. 
 
 SAML JENINGS. 
 Endorsed: 
 
 Sam: Jenings answer to 
 J. Tatham 
 T. Revell 
 N. Westland