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s plotting to take his life, and lay Hillsborough in ashes. Fanning to Tryon, 23 April, 1768. Meantime Tryon, who as the King's Representative, should have joined impartiality with lenity, made himself an open volunteer on the side of Fanning, Governor Tryon to Fanning, 27 April, 1768. and while he advised the Chap. XXXV.} 1768. Sept. people to petition the Provincial Legislature, Governor Tryon's Proclamation. he empowered Fanning to call out the militia of eight counties besides Orange, and suppress insurrections by force. The people of Orange, and equally of Anson, Rowan and Mecklenburg, were unanimous in their resolution to claim relief of the Governor. Flattery was, therefore, mixed with menaces, to allure the Regulators to sign a Petition which Fanning had artfully drafted, Plain and Simple Narration of Facts, 1768. and which rather invoked pardon than demanded redress. Paper offered for Signature at the Council of Regulators, 25 April, 1768. Petition to his