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that ſome of them, at ſome Times may be ſuffered to be at quiet.
What our Fate will be God only knows, if the preſent Wits of the Age ſhould be attended with Succeſs, and ſtrengthened by Numbers. As for Arguments they are out of the Queſtion with them, their Weapons being Points of Wit, ſmart Jeſts, and all-confounding Laughter. Theſe they brandiſh about againſt Heaven or Earth, as they happen to oppoſe their Wills and Inclinations, which ſtand with them for Reaſon and Religion.
If therefore we may claim the Privilege of Engliſh Subjects to ſpeak our Grievances, and be indulged with a gracious Attention, the following Particulars, contain the chief Articles of our Complaint.
I. That the Eſtate of Wives is more diſadvantagious than Slavery itſelf.
II. That Wives may be made Priſoners for Life at the Diſcretion of their Domeſtick Governors, whoſe Power, as we at preſent apprehend, bears no Manner of Proportion to that Degree of Authority, which is veiled in any other Set of Men in England. For though the Legiſlature, acting collectively, may diſpoſe of Life and Fortune; no indi-
