A comprehensive collection of primary documents relating to Rev. William Smith's 1758 petition to the King in Council against his imprisonment by the Pennsylvania Assembly. Includes Smith's petition (dated 6 February 1758), Benjamin Franklin's detailed notes refuting the petition point-by-point, observations on attacks on the Quakers, and procedural notes for counsel. These documents were presented at hearings before the Attorney General and Solicitor General on 20 and 27 April 1758, and provide crucial evidence of early American colonial constitutional disputes and Assembly claims to parliamentary privilege.