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Examples
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If I gett D. out, I propose you to be Leiu* Governor.
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As it is no service to the Crown nor any benefit to him to be Leiu* Gov 'I wou'd beg it of your Grace as a very particular favour that his commission may be super - seded, and ColP Henry Sherburne appointed in his place.
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As it is no service to the Crown nor any benefit to him to be Leiu* Gov 'I wou'd beg it of your Grace as a very particular favour that his commission may be super - seded, and ColP Henry Sherburne appointed in his place.
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The Leiu* Gov 'therefore after waiting two days & finding they wou'd do nothing prorogu'd the Court according to my order; and this is what these 15 persons call a sudden prorogation, & so surprizing, but what, my Lords, can be plainer than that the prorogation was not suddain, but after sitting two days? and if it prevented any address,
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You are mistaken about the profits of the N. Hamp Leiutenancy, if you imagine I ever did or will allow any Leiu* the least farthing out of my £600 a year.
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In front of my house was a battery at the water-side, garrisoned by a Leiu* & twenty three men.
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It wou'd quit me of the plague of the present Leiu 'Gov', who, I think, is one of the most uneasy creatures I ever had to do with, and tryes to make every body else so.
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I enclose you an old N.ws Letter to show you the present Duke of N. Castle has condescended to write even to a Leiu* Gov 'of this Province.
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It wou'd quit me of the plague of the present Leiu* Gov ', who, I think, is one of the most uneasy creatures I ever had to do with, and tryes to make every body else so.
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Gov 'of this Province, dy'd after a short illness the first of this month, and as it must undoubtedly most of all tend to his Majesty's honour & service, as well as to the peace of his governm* here, that the Leiu* Gov' might be a per - son agreeable to the King's Gov ', and it being a favour commonly allow'd the King's Gov' to name their Leiu*
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