But we humbly conceive and hope that there is and will appear to be so much of reason and justice, and so much of his Highness interest to dispose of the government enclosed, that there will be sufficient cause for his Highness to dispose of the government of Maryland (in case it belong not to Virginia) otherwise then to put it into the hands of such a one, when if once confirmed, will undoubtedly be as ready to slight and oppose ye authority of his Highness, as ever he was to slight and oppose ye authority of ye parliament, which he hath manifestly and boldly done, and that with a very high hand

Sir, your former propensness to take cognizance of the business makes us presume thus to trouble you, and it being of such a public concernment in relation to his Highness interest and ye good of these profitable plantations we hope you will please to excuse our boldness, and to further the determination and dispatch of this long tedious dispute, that so those plantations may be settled under ye present government, and that we may return to our relations and occasions from which we have been so long detained.

The Planters, some of them, have not only dealt unjustly and inhumanely with the poor heathen Indians; but to the farther dishonour of this Nation, and the greater scandal of our religion professed by them, they did lately commit a most hainous outrage, and bloody fact upon some of their own English Nation, that had seated themselves in Mary-land; & that not upon a suddain provoked, boyling of their own blood, but, (so far as circumstances could demonstrate their intention) out of a Cain-like thirsting after their brethrens blood, and a sordid coveting of their estates.