To Capt. Burrington
Sir,
We have received your letters of the 1st July and 4th Sept. 1731 and shall receive His Maj. pleasure on such parts of them wherein his service or the welfare of the Province are any way concerned But as to those paragraphs which relate to yourself and those who have disagreed with your measures We cannot but take notice that they are couched in a very extraordinary particularly that where speaking of Mr Ashe's declining to come to England with the Chief Justice you write in the following words By which failure of his Baby Smith will be quite lost having nothing but a few lies to support his cause unless he can obtain an Instructor
from a Gentleman in Hanover Square Of these words we expect an immediate and distinct explanation and are