Affidavits taken by way of reply to the deposition and affidavits taken and made on the part of the Governor:
Wyriott Ormond & Thomas Barker of North Carolina Esqrs make Oath and say that on the thirty first day of March last past at New Bern they the said Deponents served his Excellency Gabriel Johnston Esqre Governor of North Carolina aforesaid with Copies of the Interrogatories administered to Mr. Richard Lovett and Mr. William Herritage on the part of the Complainants mentioned in an order of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, Dated the 14th day of July 1748, and further say not.