regularly used as early as 1714, for "the peti- tion filed in Lancaster County Quar- ter Sessions Court to 'relay' it out in 1734 sets out that it has been in use for twenty years." These five terms were first Tuesday os August, 1729; first Tuesday of No- vember, 1729; February 3d, 1730; May 5th, 1730, and

the British fleet in American waters on March 8, 1748. It was in part as follows: "We need not tell You, who are so well acquainted with the Condition of the Colonies, that the Majority of the Assembly consisting o Quakers, their Princi ples wou'd �never suffer them to put this provihce in a posture