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The Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 16

to pass such Bills as will lay an equitable Tax upon all Lands without any Exceptions?—And were all the Assembly to be chosen from among my Countrymen, and Brother Elders to-morrow, were they to give up that single point, of an equitable Tax upon all Estates, even tho' they shou'd procure an Establishment in Lieu of it for our Ministers [which by the by, wou'd be no Advantage to us Laymen) I wou'd be one of the first that wou'd hang them up as high as Gilderoy, and send their Quarters into all parts of the Province by way of Memento to their Successors.—Here I interrupted my Elder, for I cou'd not bear his Impudence no longer, and assured him if he was not silent in an instant I wou'd cain him; he acknowledg'd, without making any other Reply, that my Argument was much more powerful than his, and hoped I wou'd use it to the whole Congregation.

THE Council was adjourn'd till 9 o'clock the next Morning, when they met punctually at the Time appointed, prayed, und unanimously made the following Resolves.

1st. Resolved, n, c, That the P—r shou'd be

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