246 there should be a fuller meeting to that purpose the next weekc, and that in the meane time both parties should forbeare any private addresses in this matter. To this the excisemen agreed, yet notwithstanding the governor tooke a whole packet! of their leLters going to London, which when he discover'd, he alsoc writt to his friends in London on behalfe of the garrison. The next weeke, at a full meeting, a petition was sign'd, which the governor ofl'er'd the towne to Ju~vc carried, being hirnselfe to goe up, but they in a complement refus'd to give him the trouble, pitching upon Capt. Coates and the towne-clearke to goe up with it. They accordingly went, about the time that, after seven weekes' stay in the garrison, the governor was call'cl againe up to London to iustifi e himselfe against the mallitious clamours of his adversaries. When Capt. Coates and the other came to London they applied themselves to Mr. Millington, who perceiving that the governor stood for the ease of the garrison, putt them into a way to frustrate their owne designes, and sq they return'd home, and at the sessions, rend'ring the towne an account of their negotia tions, they told them they found it an impossibl e thing to get the excise taken of ; ye tt the governor knew a way how to ease them, but they fear'd he would be discouraged in it, because at his eomrning up he had found their disaffec tions exprcss t against him iu a petitioh to cast him out of his command, " whi ch," sayd the cl earke, " you cannot doe, for he " still is and must be governor; therefore if any of you have bene " cheated of your hands, contrary to your intentions and desires, " you would doe well to testify your honesty, by disclaiming what "goes under your name." Soone after these mallignants stirr'd up the souldiers to mutiny, and there being no governor in the garrison that could tell how to order them otherwise, they were appeas'd with mony; upon which 1 occasion a general! muster being called, the maior told the souldiers how they were iniured at London by a petition, preferr'd in the name of the whole garrison, to
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