Note 5 — A “SCRUB-POETICAL” ANSWER TO A GOVERNOR

The same day, March 10, the governor, in anger, dissolved the assembly, intending thereby “to give his Majties good subjects an opportunity of sending such to represent them in the next Assembly as will do all in their Power to retrieve the Injustice you have practiced in not paying the Publick Debts; and those that will promote peace & a good agreemt amongst all Branches of the Legislature.”