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Excerpt from A Narrative of an Attempt Made by the French of Canada Upon the Mohaque's Country
The writer has no evidence that either of these suppositions is even probable; rather on the contrary. Bradford's type, which had been taken from him when he was put into prison, had not been returned to him on April 27, 1693, for on that day, the second of the first session of the council of the province of Pennsylvania under Fletcher's administration, Fletcher, Upon reading the Petition of William Bradford, printer, directed to his Excell. Wherein he setts forth that in September Last his tooles and Letters were Seized by order Of the late Rulers, for printing some books of Controversie, and are still kept from him, to the great hurtt of his family, and prays Reliefe, ordered that Bradford's tools be restored to him. On the other hand, a printed copy must have been seen in London before the one now in the Public Record Office, because the endorsement in a contemporary hand on this copy, viz., Received from Coll. Fletcher, 26 Sept., 1693, is of a date later than the license date of the London edition, viz. September 1 1, 169 3, and moreover, there is the reference to the American edition in the preface of the London edition.
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