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Excerpt from An Essay Towards the Vindication of the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados: From the Aspersions and Calumnies Thrown Upon Them, in an Anonymous Piece, Printed in Philadelphia, Under the Title of an Address to Them, Occasioned by Their Letter to Their Agent in London
I remember to have heard of a Welch Gentle man, who, 1n the Time of the great Rebellion, had the Misfortune to be taken Prifoner by the Re.. Bels, tried and condemned to Death, in Compa ny with two Englifh Noblemen, and hearing his Sentence, he humbly thanke for the Fa Vour they had fhown him, the Court, tle inclined to fhew him Favour, and confcious of having fhown none, with fome Surprize, afked what Favour he meant? To which he anfwered, that' they did him, who Was but a fimple Welch Gen tleman, the Honour of adjudging him to die the' fame Death with two Engllfh Noblemen. But what Thanks are nor due to this American from' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
