till the next day Saturday at night the said Smith was discharged as for defects in the Warrant under which he had been arrested and was imprisoned and as upon the merits of the case by the said Municipal Court and these affiants further say that said and were before they arrived at the City of & while they were there assured <​by​> the said Smith and many of the company, who had traveled together from , these affiants among the number, that they should be protected from violence and that the said Smith did publickly declare in to the peope there assembled that his honour was pledged that said should be protected from violence & requested every one to preserve his pledge his pledge inviolate These affiants state further that no violence or threats to their knowledge or belief were made use of towards the said or the said whom either before or after their arrival at but the numbers who met and accompanied the said Smith and his escort on their journey conducted themselves in an orderly and peaceable man [p. [4]]