to y President & Councill: that it is both Convenient and safe to have the Law to be passed to be according to Charter.

The President and Councill grant that the Stile to ye preamble of ye Promulgated Bills shall be according to Charter.

The Petition of Jno. Mackeney was read; the Councill are not Inclined to grant a Lycence but where there are Conveniences for Entertainmt.

Wm. Berry & francis Standfield Sent from ye Assembly to desire a Conferance, which was Complyed with.

The Petition of Wm. Dareing being read: Cornelius Emson & James Rades being attested, gave in their Evidence in Writing Concerning it, wch remains on the file.

Ordered that ye Clark of ye Councill deliver to ye Speaker 3 bills, No. 3, 4 & 5, wch was done.

Adjourned till ye 14 3d Mo., 85.

The Comittee being Mett yo 14th 3d Mo., 1685.

Two of the Memb. of the Assembly attended this Board wth amendmts on the Bill of ffineing Justices from five pounds to five shillings.

The Comittee doe desire the Assembly to Weigh and Consider the reasons given for passing this Bill, as it is, as you may Informe them fully.

Phi. Pemberton Informed the Comittee of the Indians killing their hoggs at the Falls: agreed that Care should be Taken in it.

The Petition of Jacob Lassere & Jacob Pellison was read, but not being according the act of Naturalisation in its Stile, the advice of the board is that it should be accordingly amended, and it shall have it respectful Notice; which was accordingly done.

Three of y Members of Assembly attended this board, and desired that y Bill No. 3 might be reduced from five pounds to thirty Shillings, and ye Bill No. 5, from twenty Shillings to tenn. This Board reced the Bills with amendmts.

Two of y Membrs of Assemby attended this Board, desireing more bills.

Ordered that ye Clark deliver to them the Bills, No. 6, 7, 8.
Adjourned till 5 o'Clock afternoon.

POST MERIDIEM.

The Comittee being Mett:

Tho. Usher and Jno. Blunston, Members of Assembly, attended this Board with the 6th Bill, desireing this amendmt, Vizt: to Incert these words, to ye wrong of his Neighbour or any other Person, after y° word Land Marke.

Agreed yt it should pass with that amendmt; also, they were ordered to desire more Bills.

Ordered yt the Clark deliver to them the Bills No. 12, 13, 14, 15.

The Petition of Charles Pickerin was read, and it is y sence of this board that the Petionr in reference to privileges and ffreedom,

Stands in an Equal Capacity with other Persons of his Station in this Province, &c.

Adjourned till 15th 3d Mo., 1685.

At a Councill held at Philadelphia The 15th 3d Mo., 1685.

The Speaker, wth three more of the Assembly, attended this board with three Bills, Vizt: ye 12, 13, 14, for Amendmts; Agreed they should pass wth Amendmts.

Adjourned till 4 of ye Clock Afternoone.

POST MERIDIEM.

The Presidt & Councill being Mett:

Two of the Members of Assembly attended this board to desire a Conferance, which was agreed to.

The Declaration of the freemen in Assembly against Nich. Moore, one of their Members, that he should be removed from all his Offices of Trust and Power in this Province & Territories, wch Declaration was read and Ordered by this board to be recorded, wch is as followed:

The Assembly's Declaration against Nich. Moore, presented May 15th, 1685, to ye President and Provll Councill in ye Councill Chamber, by the Speaker & Members of the Assembly:.

For the Speedy redress of divers Evils & Mischiefs wch this Province and Territories now Labour under, & for y° preventing the farther growth and Increase of ye same, & to the honour and Safety of the Govr and Governmt of this Province & Territoris, and by good & Welfare of ye People thereof, the freemen in Assembly now mett, doe by this their bill, shew & Declare against Nich. Moore, Pryor Judg and member of Assembly of ye Province of Pennsilvania, &c. The Misdemeanors, Offences & Crimes, and Other Matters Comprized in the Articles following; and him, ye said Nich Moore, doe accuse of the said Misdemeanors, Offences & Crimes.

1st. The said Nich. Moore Assumeing to himselfe an unlimited & Arbitrary Power beyond the Prescription or Laws of this Governmt, hath presumed of his owne Authority, to Send Unlawful Writts to the Sherriffs, and to ascertain and appoint the Time of ye Provll Cirquits without the Direction & Concurrence of ye Provll Councill, whereby the time of their Sessions hath been Antisipated, the Severall Countys being Surprized by the Shortness of their Warning, and thereby being Impossible to give due Sumons according to Law, Either of Jurys, Wittnesses, or Persons Concerned, whereby some Persons have been forced to Irregular Tryalls, and Others absolutely denyed Justice.

2dly. The said Nich. Moore, Judge, having that high Trust Lodged in him for the Equall Distribution of Justice, without respect of Persons, the said Judge Sitting in Judgemt at New Castle, hath presumed to cast out a person from being of a Jury, after ye said Person was Lawfully attested to ye True Tryall of ye Cause, thereby rending an Innocent & Lawful Person Infamous in the face of the County, by rejecting his attestation after Lawfully Taken, and Depriving the plantif of his Just Right.

3dly. The said Nich. Moore, Sitting in Judgmt, did in ye towne of New Castle, refuse a Verdict brought in by a Lawfull Jury, and by Divers threats & Menaces, and Threatning ye Jury with ye same* of Perjury and crim of their Estates, forced ye said Jury to goe out so often, until they had brought a Direct Contrary Verdict to the first, Thereby preventing Justice, and wounding the Libertyes of ye free people of this Province and Territories in the Tenderest point of their Privelege, and Violently Usurping over ye Consciences of the Jury.

4thly. The said Nich. Moore, although there was noe Lawfull sumons according to Law for Partys Concerned to make preparation, did Arbitrarily reject and Cast out the Complaint of Jno. Wooters, in New Castle Court, hereby not only Delaying but denying Justice to him, coming in a Lawfull way to Demand it.

5thly. The said Nich. Moore assuming to himselfe an Unlimited and unlawful Power, did, Sitting in Judgmt at ye aforesaid Towne of New Castle, wherin two persons stood Charged in a Civil action, it being in its own Nature only Trover & Convertion, and ye pretended Indictmt raised it no higher, notwthstanding the said Moore did give the Judgmt of fellony, Comending the Defendent to be Publickly Whipt, & Each to be fined to pay three fould, thereby Tyranizeing over the persons, Estates and reputations of the people of this Province and Territories, Contrary to Law and Reason.

6thly. The said Nich Moore Comanding a Witness to be Examined, did by overawing & greatly Perverting y° Sence of y° Wittnesses, Charge and Condamne the said Wittness to be guilty of Perjury, and to suffer the paines in that Case provided, & by proclamation to be for Ever rendered uncapable of being rectus in Curia in this Governmt, and also fined him, Contrary to Law.

7thly. And Wheras, the Wisdom of the General Assembly did Conceive the Circular Courts would be their best Expedient for Ending all kind of Differences whatsoever, the said Nich. Moore, at ye Said Towne of New Castle, Commanding the records of ye former Circular Courts to be produced, wch y said Moore reading, he did in the Open Court, Censure the Judgmt of ye preceeding Judges, by Saying their Judgmt was not right, thereby Distracting y People betwixt divers and Contrary Judgmts, and perpetuating Endless & Vexatious Suits.

8thly. The said Nich. Moore, Sitting in Judgmt at Chester, did in a most Ambitious, Insulting, & Arbitary way, reverse and Impeach

*Fame or name.

the Judgmt of y° Justices of ye said County Court, and Publickly af fronting the members thereof, although the matter came not regularly before the said Circular Court, thereby drawing the Magistrates into the Contempt of ye people, and Weakening their hands in the administration of Justice.

9thly The said Nich. Moore being Chosen as abovesaid, to be Judg of y Circular Court according to law, wch obliges y said Judges both spring and fall, to goe their Cirquits; and ye said Nich. Moore assuming to himselfe the power of appointing the Times, as he is the pretended Chief Judg in The Province and the Territories thereof, hath notwithstanding, Declined the two Lower Circuits, to y great delay of Justice and Breach of his Trust, & Mischief and Inconvenience of ye free people of ye said Lower Countys.

10thly. The said Judg Moore resolving to put no Bounds to his Violence, Ambition and Oppression, hath, to ye Dishonour of the Govr, and Contempt of ye Governmt, Declared that neither he nor his Actions are accountable to ye Presidt and Provll Councill, by Despiseing and Conteining their Orders & precepts, and Questionning and Denying their Authority, thereby Shrowding & Protecting himselfe in all the aforesaid Violences, to the rendring the Misserys of the Opressed Intollerable & perpetual, to the Subversion of the most Excellent frame of this Governmt, and the raising himselfe above the reach of Justice.

11thly. For all wch, and divers other High Crimes and Misdemeanors, the ffreemen in Assembly Mett, saving to themselves by protestation, the Liberty of Exhibiting now and any time hereafter any further Charge and Accusation against the said Nich. Moore, doe now Impeach the said Nich. Moore of all the foregoing Crimes and misdemeanrs, and humbly request the Presidt & Provll Councill that he, the said Nich. Moore, may be removed from his great Offices & Trust, and answer to the said Objected Crimes and misde

meanors.

JOHN WHITE, Speaker, in the Behalfe and by the Order of the Assembly, now mett in Philadelphia.

Tho. Holmes, Jno. Symcock, Wm. Darvall, Phin. Pemberton, are desired to acquaint Judg Moore how that y° Declaration aformentioned was presented by the Speaker & Members of Assembly this Evening, and that the Councill doe request him to appear at y Councill to-morrow Morning, by the Seaventh hour.

Adjourned till ye 16th 3d Mo., 85.

At a Councill held at Philadelphia The 16th 3d Mo., 1685.

Jno. Blunstone & Tho. Usher Sent to this Board to desire a Conferance: Ordered that they shall have notice from this board when they are ready to Conferr wth them, they having some other Buisness now upon them.

Adjourned till three of ye Clock afternoone.

POST MERIDIEM.

Mr. Mann Complayning that a Prisoner was sheltered in the Govrs house,

The Presidt asked him whether he was taken into Custody by the Order of this board or by the Assembly.

Abram Man, in behalfe of y rest, said they did it as their own act; the Sherriff also being asked the Question, acknowledged the

same.

Wherupon, the Presidt did disavow that this board did allow him in any Kind. Questn put to Patrick Robinson what Imediate Power was used; he said the Warrant would show it, wch was read.

The Speaker & Assembly againe desired that the Declaration against Nich. Moore, Pryar Judge, might againe be read, wch was accordingly done; wch Was without Direction to the Councill, nor Subscribed by the Speaker or any of the Assembly, nor noe place mentioned therein.

Adjourned till 18th 3d Mo., 85.

At a Council held at Philadelphia y 18th of ye 3d month, 1685.

The Speaker, with y Assembly, attended this board, & Declared that they were abused by Pat. Robinson, who said you have drawn up an Impeachmt against Prest Moore at hab nab, for which the desire satisfaction.

The Presidt and Provll Councill Takeing into Consideration the words Spoken by Pat. Robinson, this board Concerning the Assembly, that the Impeachmt against Judg Moore was drawn hab. nab. wch Expressions of his wee doe unanimously declare to be undecent, unalowable, & to be disowned.

The Petition of Pat. Kenerly read, and he is referred to Tho. Holmes, Wm. fframpton & Phin. Pemberton, to End yo Business. Adjourned till 4 a Clock in yo Afternoone."