the forwardest that way on all Occasions, of any Person among the
South Folk of the Moon.

In like manner, one of the Feathers for the middle Province of the
Country, who us'd to think it his Honour to be for the qualifying
Law, seeing which way the humour of the Country ran, took as much
Pains now to tell the People he was no Tacker, as he did before, to
promise them that he would do his utmost to have the Crolians
reduc'd, and that Bill to pass, the Reason of which was plain, that
he saw if it should be known he was a Tacker, he should never have
his Feather return'd to be put into the Consolidator.

The Heats and Feuds that the Feathers and the Grandees were now run
into, began to make the latter very uneasie, and they sent to the
Grandees to hasten them, and put them in mind of passing some Laws
they had sent up to them for raising Mony, and which lay before them,
knowing that as soon as those Laws were past, the Queen would break
'em up, and they being very willing to be gone, before these things
came too far upon the Stage, urg'd them to dispatch.

But the Grandees resolving to go thoro' with the Matter, sent to them
to come to a Treaty on the foot of the six Articles, and to bring any
Reasons they could, to prove the Power they had to Act as they had
done with the Country-men, and with the Lawyers they had put in
Prison for assisting them.

The Feathers were very backward and stiff about this Conference, or
Treaty, 'till at last the Grandees having sufficiently expos'd them
to all the Nation, the Bills were past, the Grandees caus'd the
particulars to be Printed, and a Representation of their Proceedings,