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In his rejoinder, Randolph gives an abstract of his petition and the order thereon, together with the objections urged by the inhabitants of Cambridge, and then proceeds thus:—
To which the Petitioner answereth, that, in case the inhabitants of Cambridge do produce to your Excellency and the Council the royal grant to any person or persons of the said land petitioned for, and from such person or persons a legal conveyance to the inhabitants of the said town, and that the said town were by that name, or by what other name the same hath been to them granted, able and sufficient in the law to receive a grant of such lands, then the petitioner will cease any further prosecution of his said prayer: otherwise the petitioner humbly conceives the right still to remain in his Majesty, and humbly prays a grant for the same.
Ed. Randolph. Boston March ye 17th 1687-8.1
Subsequently, another order of notice was issued:—
Superscribed, ‘To Samuell Gookin Esq. High Sheriff of Middlesex, at Cambridge.’2
At the time appointed, the proprietors of the lands in controversy presented their case more fully:—
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