ings: That, upon Conviction, they may receive condign Pu|nishment: For although we have the Happiness of living under a Government which exceeds all 〈◊◊〉 the Excellency of it's Constitution and I am▪ you if those to whom the Execution of them (which My 〈◊〉 COKE calls the Life and Soul of the Law) is committed, do not exert themselves in a conscientious Discharge of their respective Duties such Laws which were intended for a Terror to the Evil Doer, and a Protection to the Good, will become a dead Letter, and our most excellent Constitution turned into Anarchy and Confusion every one practising what he li.many Frights and Terrors which the good People of this City have of late been put into, by repeated and unusual Fires, and burning of Houses, give us too much Room to suspect, that some of them at least did not pro|ceed from meer Chance or common Accidents but on the Contrary, from the premeditated Malice and wicked Purposes of evil and designing Persons and therefore it greatly behoves us to use our utmost Diligence by all lawful Ways and Means to discover the 〈◊〉 and Perpetrators of such daring and flagitious Under.IT is not without some Concern, that I am obliged at this Time to be more particular in your Charge than for many preceeding Terms there hath been Occasion.
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