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A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: : s.n., Printed in the year 1737
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for tho' you say, Page 59, We went to Springfield a Week before the Time for the Session of the Council, and let the Gentlemen there know that we should do so that so we might have Opportunity to confer and consult with them. How that consists with the Facts already related, we leave you to judge. And to what Purpose is it to tell the World, as a further Instance of your Moderation and waiting, that you delayed three Months after the first Time of your coming to Springfield, before you ordained Mr. Breck? When tho' you did not actually ordain him, yet you came to a Result, which was drawn up and read in Public, wherein Mr. B—was justified, and his Party advised to stick by him: 'Tis your Driving and Violence as Judges of this Cause, that we speak of in our Defence.
for tho' you say, Page 59, We went to Springfield a Week before the Time for the Session of the Council, and let the Gentlemen there know that we should do so that so we might have Opportunity to confer and consult with them. How that consists with the Facts already related, we leave you to judge. And to what Purpose is it to tell the World, as a further Instance of your Moderation and waiting, that you delayed three Months after the first Time of your coming to Springfield, before you ordained Mr. Breck? When tho' you did not actually ordain him, yet you came to a Result, which was drawn up and read in Publick, wherein Mr. B—was justified, and his Party advised to stick by him: 'Tis your Driving and Violence as Judges of this Cause, that we speak of in our Defence.
As to what you say, Page 61, That while Mr. Clap was reading his Papers, there came a Messenger on Horse-back to speak with him, who having finished his private Message to Mr. Clap, rode away with convenient speed, it is not unlikely, to inform those that sent him, how to time the next Messenger or Message.
In this and the preceding Page you refer six or seven Times to Mr. Clap's reading sundry large Papers, and several remarkable Incidents thereupon: Whereas four of us then present well remember, that Mr. Clap did not read one of those Papers, but they were all read by the Scribe of the Council, as they were severally given in by the Witnesses; and therefore it is impossible any Message should be done to him while he was reading those Papers. And we suppose that the Message that was done to him, was before the Scribe began to read them: But let the Time of the Message be when it will, the Suggestion that you add upon it, viz. That the Messenger came to know when would be the best Time to apprehend Mr. Breck, is wholly false and groundless; for the Messenger said nothing of such a Design, but his Message was of another Nature.