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( 15 ) t letter of whoſe names is at the head of ery one of them reſpectively) did alſo ſign compleated original, and are ready to ke oath, if deſired, that the ſame was hfully taken.

To ſuch as may take offence, a: the ſub- t matter therein contained, I do repeat it n the preſence of God, that I am not any us the author of it; and could I look upon other than the very council of God, or bt of its being ſo, it would be an inex- ſſible grief time, to be a meſſenger all tidings, to my native country, which man loves better: but if it be the reſult Heaven's determination, which none is e to controul; a forewarning thereof is btleſs to be eſteemed a great mercy; I ſatisfied, no man is able to charge upon ſelf, no nor upon any of our companions, ſort of diſaffection to the happy govern- nt of this iſland; and I do further declare, t as to what I do either know or have rd, there never has been uttered in ecſ- e, or predicted, any thing of evil to be- the perſon of her gracious majeſty (as ne perſons have maliciouſly given our): on contrary, bleſſings are therein clearly in- ated to attend her. I have been to care- to obviate, as much as poſſible, all juſt putation of combination or deſign or my, that I never conſulted any man, either the publiſhing the Cry from the Deſart, nor my preface to the ſame, nor even in this