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A Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 6
12017-03-19T08:00:52-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-03-19T08:00:52-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650adecreed, that there shou’d no Magistrates hold Commissions under the Government, who had shewn any Love for the Emperor; or was not a Piss--Brute---tarian; or cou’d not play upon the Jew’s harp.
As I had the happiness to be acquainted with Counsellor Wiseman, a most accomplish’d Gentleman, who had directed the Board for ten Years, with the greatest integrity through all the political storms and tempests that had threatened the destruction of the Province, during the whole time by reason of a bloody war that had been carried on with the grand Turk, he took the first Opportunity after the Council broke up to communicate to me the substance of the debate upon that important subject.
His Excellency the Waywode, inform’d the Board, that he wou’d not have one Assertorian in the Commission of the peace or any other civil office throughout the Government, as they seem’d all tinctur’d with a rebellious disposition towards him and his family, and had transferr’d their Loyalty to the Emperor himself. That by their late proceedings, in choosing such men to represent them, who were his bitter Enemies; and in complaining to the Emperor against him, by which means he wou’d be look’d upon with an evil Eye at the Court of Vienna, and either oblig’d to resign his Government, or throw himself under the Protection of the grand Turk; therefore as they had thus shewn their malicious intentions against his Administration, they were no longer to be enrolled among the Number of his Friends. He also
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12016-08-19T13:00:05-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 61A letter from a gentleman in Transilvania to his friend in America : giving some account of the late disturbances that have happen'd in that government, with some remarks upon the political revolutions in the magistracy, and the debates that happened about the change. Humbly inscribed to Counsellor Quondam by his friend Isaac Bickerstaff, of the Middle Temple.2016-08-19T13:00:05-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
