W. 4. 166; 5 Collections , I. 486. This acknowledgment, written on the verso of the document immediately preceding, is in the handwriting of Governor Winthrop. Immediately above it, also in the Governor’s handwriting, is the following draft of another form of acknowledgment:

“Whereas we had our hands to a writing called a Remonstrance or Petition, we acknowledge we did ill and vnwarrantably therin, as taking vpon us to censure the proceedings of the Court, which is not lawfull for private persons so to doe.”