I.

Because the Office and Exorbitant Power whereby Jones was inabled and imboldened to commit those horrible Crimes Alledged against him, and to Oppress me so cruelly for my opposing him therein regularly and according to the duty of my Place and Station in the Government, was Conferred on him by Commission and instructions from Your Lordships without due Examination of his fitness for discharging the dutys thereof, for, if You had made but a slight inquisition into his inabilitys for Government, You would soon have discerned that privatively and positively he was utterly un­qualified for the meanest Office of Power and Publick Trust instituted for the common benefit of humane Society, being destitute of all Moral Endowments requisite thereunto, and habitually propense to such Vices which to restrain from, and punish for, was a principal end of Erecting and Establi­shing Government among Men.

II.

Because soon after he was Instaled in his Office, his Address to Your Lordships, his Letters to Col. Colleton, Governour of Carolina, against Proprietor Southwel, to Sir Robert Robin­son Governour of Burmudas, to Mr. Simon Musgrave, Atorney General at Jamaica, and to Mr. Samuel Trott, Collector at Burmudas, being all stuff'd with Nonsensical Rallery, and nauceous scurrility, manifested him to be an impudent shat­ter brained Idiot, fitter for Bedlam, or Bridewell, than any place of Authority; yet you continued him near four years in the Administration of that Suprem Office; wherein his whole managment hath been greatly to the dishonour of Your Lordships, and damage of the people inhabiting Your said Province.

III.

Because all his barbarous and unjust dealings with me, have been done by Colour of his Office, and by pretended Authority from Your Lordships, whose Names he hath con­stantly used to imbolden his Agents in the Execution of his unlawful Precepts; Viz. To Imprison people without any cause, detain them during his pleasure, break their Houses and Rob them of their goods, &c. Whereby he hath Repre­sented Your Lordships as a company of Nimrods, that delight in hunting men to destruction, and therefore send such beasts of prey to Rule over them.

IV.

Because Nicholas Trott (who succeeded Jones in the Govern­ment of the said Province by Commission from Your Lord­ships,) [Page 4] denied me my Birth-right-priviledge, viz. the bene­fit of the Laws of England, for my own relief, and the Ex­emplary punishment of my merciless oppressors; the chief of whom he preferred to places of great Dignity and Au­thority in the Government, though guilty of, and accused for Trayterous and Felonious Conspiracys, Burglarys, and other heinous Crimes, and at the same time held me a close Pri­soner, denying me Bail, and delaying my Tryal two months after he became Governour, though I had then been hardly imprisoned under Jones his Usurpation 14 months, and when I was cleared by Law, and in the King's Name demanded Le­gal Process against Jones, and Graves; he permitted both to Re [...]ire out of the Province, whereby they have Escaped Demerited-punishment, and because the said Trott hath As­sumed and Exercised an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Power over the Persons, Libertys, and Propertys of the Kings Sub­jects inhabiting Your said Province, ever since he came to the Government.

V.

Because through the denials of Justice by Your Lordships Ministers at Providence, and Carolina; I am Necessitated to leave the Place of my Setled Habitation and Trade, my Lands, Houses, Goods, and Debts of great value, and to Ex­pose my self to great Perril of Life and Liberty, and to great Expence of time and mony in Traveling 3000 miles over the Seas, viz. From Providence to England, to spread my deplorable Case before Your Lordships, to whom only (Trott saith) Jones is answerable for the male Administration of his Office; and by the Denials aforesaid, I am deprived of witnesses here [viva voce] to prove the matters of Fact which I have Aledged against them, and for which I am bound to prossecute.

VI.

Because they who have the disposal of Offices for Admini­stration of Justice, ought not to put into them any but such as are duely qualified, and for whom they will answer, the Law says Respondeat Superior, which is the reason why Se­curity is required for such Officers before they can Execute their respective Offices; otherwise the Persons sustaining▪ damage by their ignorant or corrupt Errors, would be de­stitute of remedy, whereby those Offices that are appointed for common benefit, would become the most Common and only Remediles grievances.

VII.

Because Your Lordships (by whom Jones, Trott, Blake, &c. were Vested with the said Offices and Exorbitant powers which Enabled and Imboldened them, their Abettors and Agents to do those Acts of monstrous Cruelty and Injustice to me, and whereby I have been deprived of the benefit of the Laws for my own relief, and their punishment) are be­yond expression better able to repair my Losses and Damages, than I am to bear them, who have lost a Virtuous Wife (frighted to Death by the Burglarious and other Terrifying Acts of Violence done by the said Jones and his Complices) my own health, by hard and long Imprisonment, my whole Estate in Lands, &c. as aforesaid; am put out of all manner of Employment, disabled to pay my Debts, and to betake my self to the Free and Publick Exercise of any Occupation, for maintaining my self and Offspring; or to be in any conside­rable degree useful in my Generation, in which Case, Life is undesirable to a good man.

The Exorbitant Powers (in the first f [...]r [...]going Reason) said to be Confer'd by Your Lordships upon Jones, were that by Commission You impowered him, and by instructions directed him to appoint a Deputy to Each Proprietor ac­cording to his pleasure, and every Deputy so appointed to be always a Member of the Grand Councel, and of the Up­per House in the General Assembly, and to hold those Places of Dignity and Authority during his pleasure: And he with the consent of three Deputys of his own Election and ap­pointment, to Ratify or Reject such Laws as should be chosen by the Peoples Representatives Convened in a General As­sembly, also to Adjourn, Prorogue and Dissolve the Assembly at their Arbitrary will and pleasure, which Powers the said Jones hath corruptly used to the Subverting of the very Ends of Government, in appointing Indigent Illiterate and Vitious Men to be your Deputys; whereof some have been Notoriously guilty of Capital Crimes: These being introduced by his fa­vour and holding their Places duranto bene placito, by their servile Compl [...]ance with him in his Arbitrary and oppressive Practices, and Trayterous Conspiracies, have furthered the Execution thereof, and frustrated the good Effect of all Le­gal means used, for limiting his Exorbitant power, and Re­dressing the Peoples intollerable grievances, under his Tyran­ny. By the Advice and Consent of such dependent Creatures, he hath procured long Intermissions, undue Elections, and abrupt Dissolutions of General Assemblies, and thereby hath Defeated the chief Ends of the Constitution and Convention of that Supream Court, viz. Enacting beneficial Laws, Re­dressing Grievances, and correcting the Exorbitances of per­nitious Favorites and corrupt Ministers of State

To evince the truth of what is said concerning his choice of Deputys, I present Your Lordships with a Catalogue of the Names, and a description of the Persons who were ap­pointed [Page 7] to be Your Deputys, by Cadwallader Jones, in the time of his Tyrannical Government of Your said Province, viz. from the 19th day of June Anno 1690. to the 16th day of April 1694. viz. Himself, whose discription you have had before; Bartholomew Mercier, an indigent French Alien, and a Robber of French Protestant Refugees; John Graves, a per­petual Incendiary; Gilbert Ashley, Bowen Clasen, Allen Abbot, a Pirate, Timothy Rumney, a reputed Papist, [the two last were chosen Deputys to strengthen a Conspiracy to Banish Bulkley, for opposing Jones his Tyranny in a Parliamentary way] Richard Holloway, Daniel Jackson, a Notorious Pirate; Martin Cock, a servant to a Punch-house-keeper; Thomas Cum­ber, an Illiterate man, who could not write his own Name; Thomas Peck, Thomas Williams, a Notorious Pirate; Ashley and Clasen (being sencible and sober men) were displaced by Jones, and Halloway avoided the same fate, by going to Jamaica.

That the Character I have given of Jones may be Evident­ly verified, I have inserted his Letter to Mr. Samuel Trott, and the Answers thereunto, also Sir Peter Colleton's Letter to Jones, as a Specimen thereof, Viz.