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had likewise elected them Burgesses and desired as such to be

admitted whereupon M^r Giles Brent Letter was lookt into and
there found a certificate of their election as Burgesses where-
upon they were admitted as such
Then stood up Henry Bishop and exhibited himself Burgess
for Saint Leonards hundred and pleaded that it was acknow-
ledged to be a hundred upon the probate of a will whereupon
he was answered that it was not yet created a hundred and last
election of Burgesses they were joyned to Mattapanient hun-

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dred and that they had no writt to elect Burgesses Burgesses
and therefore their election not legal & their Assembly to that
purpose unlawful

18^th July

Richard Garnett Senior returned Henry Bishop Elected
Burgess by the freemen of Conception alias Mattapanient
hundred
Eodem in the afternoon

Assembled
The Governor
Secretary
M^r Langford
M^r Gerard
M^r Evelin
M^r Fennick
M^r Clerk
M^r Greene
Robert Vaughan
Richard Thompson

Appeared Burgess for Saint
Inomas oteerman | Michaels hundred and admitted

David Whitcliff
Nathan. Pope
George Pye
Henry Bishop
William Broughe

Appeared Burgess for Saint
John Langford | Michaels Hundred & Admitted

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Robert Vaughan in the name of the rest desired that the
house might be Seperated & the Burgesses to be by themselves
and to have a negative but it was not Granted by the Lieu^t
General
Then upon motion made of a march against the
they expressing a great Opposition to it the Lieut^t General
told the Burgesses he did not intend to advise with them