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Draft (fragment): Library of Congress
[1760?]

that you had mention’d to me the Probability that the House would have remonstrated on all their other Grievances; had not their Time been taken up with the difficult Business of a general Valuation; and since the Complaint of this Petition was likely alone to give Offence, it might perhaps [be] judg’d adviseable to give the Offence of all our Complaints at once, rather than in Parts and after a Reprimand received; I say, upon the whole I thought it best [remainder missing]

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