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with such alterations & amendments as Existing Circumstances might from time to time have renderd Necessary, I could with care have gone on, but instead of that, I find he was no sooner out of the harbour on his return to England, than there was the most indelicate & Mark'd disapprobation shown of all his Measures, & upon their ruins another System as opposite as possible immediately establish'd, & of which I now feel the inconvenience, for Observing many of the New regulations not exactly Consistent with His Majestys Instructions to the Govr: nor agreeable to the Plan Established by Parliament for our Government, I Considerd it my duty to Pay them aside, and to reistablish the Civil Magistrate who had been long laid by, and to direct that all Culprits for inferior Crimes be examind & punishd by the Authority of the Civil Court. This you may suppose, wou'd draw upon me the Censure of the Colony seduc'd by those Changes I was about to make, & which I felt it my duty as a public Concern to make. In short Sir, I cou'd wish you had the perusal of my Correspondence with the Duke of Portland upon this Subject, you wou'd then discover a part of the difficultys which the Changes made since Govr. Phillips time have given me to Contend with. I say part, becasue I have not mentioned half to his Grace of what I might have done, nor Complaind so much of the difficultys I have had to Struggle with as their frequency & Magnitude, woud have Warranted & Justified - it woud have been far easyer for me to have planted a New Colony, than to have attempted the recovery one one so Shamefully plungd in Profligacy & Licentousness