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[Supplication of Colonel Alexander Hamilton, general of the artillery, for exoneration of his carriage]

Supplication of the general of the artillery for his approbation and exoneration²

To the king's most sacred majesty and honourable estates of parliament, the humble petition of General Alexander Hamilton, general of the artillery, humbly showing,

That I, having been employed in these troublesome times past by the estates of this kingdom as general of the artillery, and now seeing all matters are brought to an happy closure, therefore I humbly entreat your majesty and honourable estates of parliament that I may have your majesty's and estates of parliament's approbation if it shall be found by your majesty and honourable estates that I [...]³ and discharged with honest and faithful duty for the public of the charge imposed upon me by the estates. And if it shall be found by your majesty and estates of this present parliament that I have committed any fault or omission in discharging of my said charge to the prejudice of the public, I humbly submit myself to the censure of your majesty and parliament. And your majesty's and honourable estates' answer I humbly crave.