It was Job's excellency that he sat as king among his people--that he was a father to the poor.

They are a poor people (destitute of outward favour, wealth and power) who now cry to their lord the King.

May your Majesty please to regard their cause and maintain their right.

It will stand among the marks of lasting honour to after generations.

And we and ours shall have lasting cause to rejoice, that we have been numbered among your Majesty's most humble servants and suppliants.
"25th October, 1664." As the Massachusetts Governor and Council had endorsed a copy of the foregoing petition to the Earl of Clarendon, then Lord Chancellor (who had dictated, with the Puritan ministers of the King, his generous letter of the 28th of June, 1662), I will here insert Lord Clarendon's reply to them, in which he vindicates the appointment of the Commissioners, and exposes the unreasonableness of the statements and conduct of the Massachusetts Court.