On the Method of Plants (1696) - Page 17

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A Petition presented to Sir John Heydon Governor, by six Bermudians, 1677.

To the Honourable Sir John Heydon Knight and Governor, with his worthy Council. Somers Islands, April 20. 1677.

The humble Petition of Captain John Dorrel, Senior, Capt. John Hubbard, Capt. George Hubbard, Lieutenant William Peniston, Mr. William Righton Senior, and Mr. William Keele, in behalf of the rest of the Inhabitants.

Most Humbly shows,

THAT your Petitioners understanding that several new Laws are come to your Honor's hands, from the Honourable Company The Somers Isles Company, the joint-stock company that managed Bermuda from London until 1684., to be put in execution; and knowing by experience that the execution thereof will prove not only prejudicial, but the ruin of the well-being of the Inhabitants of these Islands; ourselves, with several others, have by the request of the Inhabitants, presented to your Honor and Council, our humble Addresses to the Honourable Company; therein showing the misery we lived under several years ago, and must unavoidably live under again, if their new Laws be put in execution; WE in the behalf of the Inhabitants of the whole Islands, humbly begging your Honor, and Council, to stop the present execution of those new Laws, until the Honourable Company's pleasure is further known in Answer to our Grievances.

And your Honor's Petitioners shall ever pray.


John Dorrell, Senior.	George Hubbard.	William Righton, Sen.
John Hubbard.	William Penistone.	William Keele.