A True and faithful narrative of the proceedings of the House of Burgesses of North Carolina, met in Assembly for the said province at Newbern, Feburary [sic] 5th 1739. On the articles of complaint exhibited before them against the Honourable William Smith, Esq; chief justice of the said province, for high crimes and misdemeanors done and committed by the said William Smith in the execution of his office. : Published for the justification of the gentlemen members of that House, who voted the said articles sufficiently proved for the said chief justice to be charged therewith. : Addressed to the freeholders of North-Carolina. : [Three lines from Proverbs]