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| | Manuscript copybook of letters demanding the recal... - PBA Galleries, Auctions & Appraisers |
 | | Lumley, who assumed the office of governor in 1819, was called back to London in 1822 for investigation of the charges, but was reinstated the following year, having been cleared of wrongdoing. |
 | | The citizens rankled at the oppression of a crown-appointed governor, and, as communicated in the series of letters in the copybook, the population was unified in their opposition to Governor Lumley. |
 | | Our House of Assembly having conceived that Sir William Lumley the Governor of this Island has committed various acts of maladministration of too serious a nature to be looked over, have in an humble petition to His Majesty, complained of some of them, and prayed for the Governor's recall from this Government... |
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