Note 852 — Chapter XIV · OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
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The petition concludes with the following exhortation: "and we earnestly desire ye Lord may perswade your hearts, vnto whome we are now concerned, that ye may remoue ye cause of this our address and open that eye in you that can see vs as we are, who can pray for those thats in authority that vnder them we may live a peaceable holy and Godlike life
Y^e 4th day of y^e 7^{th} mo: 1680 "Henry Willis John Bowne."