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A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
With Respect to our saying that the reading Declarations on Horse back in the Street, in the midst of a Multitude of People, to represent Mr. Kirtland and Mr. Clap to be Liars, we presume was of the Council's ordering, because done so publicly under their Window: You sarcastically say, Here our Reason is admirably strong! Certainly as strong as your's is, Page 79, where only from our being entertained at the Tavern where the Justices kept, and knowing of their Design, you don't only say you presume, but venture boldly to assert, not only that we approved of it, but called in their Help, and GOT 'em to interpose; and much stronger, for the People that especially did this, under your Window, were and had been at the House, as waiting on you, in an Affair, wherein it is notorious, they were wholly under your Direction▪ But however,
With Respect to our saying that the reading Declarations on Horse back in the Street, in the midst of a Multitude of People, to represent Mr. Kirtland and Mr. Clap to be Liars, we presume was of the Council's ordering, because done so publickly under their Window: You sarcastically say, Here our Reason is admirably strong! Certainly as strong as your's is, Page 79, where only from our being entertain'd at the Tavern where the Justices kept, and knowing of their Design, you don't only say you presume, but venture boldly to assert, not only that we approved of it, but called in their Help, and GOT 'em to interpose; and much stronger, for the People that especially did this, under your Window, were and had been at the House, as waiting on you, in an Affair, wherein it is notorious, they were wholly under your Direction▪ But however,
In Page 67, 68, you most strenuously assert, that this was without your Ordering or Knowledge; We will therefore let you know what Reason we have to think that what we have supposed of you in this Matter is the Truth▪ and first, we have the following Testimony of a Person that is of neither of the Parties concerned, for he don't belong to the Precinct.