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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48006	A letter from a gentleman of the city of New-York, to another, concerning the troubles which happen'd in that province in the time of the late happy revolution	Gentleman of the city of New York.	1698 (1698)	Wing L1397; ESTC R9397	10,603	26

his Majesties Interest have yet notwithstanding unacquainted with our Circumstances and not duely apprized of the truth been more easily induced to give credit to the false Glosses and Calumnies of byassed and disaffected Persons from this Province But in my Observation most Gentlemen that have come hither so prepossessed after some time spent here have been thorowly convinced of their Mistake and that those men who suffered Death did not from pure zeal for their Majesties Interest and the Protestant Religion but being of desperate Fortune thrust themselves into Power of purpose to make up their wants by the Ruin and Plunder of his Majesties Loyal Subjects and were so far engaged in their repeated Crimes that they were driven to that height of Desperation had not the Providence of Almighty God prevented it the whole Province had been Ruined and Destroyed I have put this in writing at your Request to assist your Memory and leave it to his Excellency Coll. Fletcher and your own Observations to enlarge upon the Characters of those Persons who have been the greatest Sufferers in the time of those Disorders and of their Patience and Moderation since your arrival also of the Disaffected and the Causes which you have frequently observed to hold this Province in Disquiet and Trouble Notwithstanding all which and the frequent Attachs of the French and Indians upon our Fronteers this Province has not lost one foot of ground during the War but have had considerable Advantages upon the Enemy which under God is due to the prudent and steady Conduct and great Care and Diligence of Coll. Fletcher our present Governour You have been an Eye Witness and have had Time and Experience enough to enable you to inform others in England which if you will please to do I doubt not but it will gain Credit and be an extraordinary piece of Service to this Province I am SIR Your Most Humble Servant New-York December 31. 1697. The KING's Letter VVilliam R. TRusty and Well-beloved We greet you well Whereas We have been given to understand by Letters from you and others the principal Inhabitants of Our Province of New-York of your Dutiful Submission to Our Royal Pleasure and readiness to receive from Vs such Orders as We should think requisit for settling the Peace and good Government of Our Province of New-York We have thought fit hereby to fignifie unto you That We are taking such Resolution concerning the same as may tend to the Wellfare of Our Subjects Inhabitants there And in the mean time We do hereby Authorize and Impower you to take upon you the Government of the said Province calling to your Assistance in the Administration thereof the principal Free-holders and Inhabitants of the same or so many of them as you shall think fit Willing and Requiring you to do and perform all things which to the Place and Office of Our Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief of Our Province of New-York doth or may appertain as you shall find necessary for Our Service and the good of Our Subjects according to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province until further Order from Vs And so We bid you Farewell Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 30th Day of July 1689. in the first Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command Nottingham Was Superscribed To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Francis Nichollson Esq Our Lieut. Governour and Commander in Chief of Our Province of New-York in America And in his Absence To such as for the time being take care for preserving the Peace and administring the Laws in Out land Province of New-York in America The Resolves of the House of Representatives c. House of Representatives for the Province of New-York April 17. 1691. P. M. UPON further Consideration of the Petition presented to this House by many of the Free-holders and Inhabitants within this City and Province Resolved Nimini Contradicente That Jacob Leyster Samuell Edsall and divers others aiding assisting and abetting him in the Dissolving the Convention that was convened at the City of New-York for the Preservation of the Peace the Execution of Justice and the securing of this Provi●ce for their Majesties Service King William and Queen Mary King and Queen ●f England c. was Tumultuous Illegal and against their Majesties Right over this their Province being a Dominion of their Crown of England Resolved That the Imprisoning of their Majesties Protestant Subjects into Doleful and Natious Prisons and their keeping them by Force and Violence without any Commitment or the assignment of any legal Cause was Arbitrary Illegal against the Peace and Dignity of their Majesties Crown of England and also a Violation of the Rights and Priviledges of Their Majesties Subjects inhabiting within this Province Resolved That the prosecuting and forc●ng their Majesties Protestant Subjects to fly their Habitations and forsake the care of their Families by which the strength of this Province was much weakened was also Arbitrary Illegal and Destructive to Their Majesties Interest in this Province Resolved That the Depredations made by the French and Indians upon Schanectady and other Plantations in the County of Albany by which many of their Majesties Protestant Subjects were slain their Houses burnt and others carried into Captivity which great loss is only to be attributed to the Disorders and Disturbances that were raised by those who had usurped a Power contrary to their Majesties Authority and Right of Government over this Province Resolved That the seizing and forcibly taking away of the Goods and Merchandizes from the Merchants and Persons inhabiting within this City and Province was a Violation of their Majesties Peace and the Destruction of their Laws and to the manifest Ruin of many of their good Protestant Subjects within this City and Province Resolved That the levving and raising of Money upon their Majesties Subjects without lawful Authority is Arbitrary and Illegal and against the Rights and Priviledges of their Majesties Subjects inhabiting within this Province Resolved That the raising of Forces and keeping their Majesties Fort of New-York against their Majesties Officers and Souldiers lately arrived was Rebellious and in prejudice to their Majesties Right and Dominion of this Province Resolved That the denying the Surrender of their Majesties Fort to his Excellency after his arrival and publication of their Majesties Commission to him was Rebellious and against the Dignity and Authority of their Majesties Crown of England Ordered For the prevention of the like Mistakes and Disorders amongst their Majesties Subjects in this Province for the time to come That these Resolves be sent to the Governour and Council with the desire of this House that they would be pleased to give the Concurrence of their Board thereunto Ordered That an Address be made to his Excellency of the Resolution of this House to support and defend their Majesties Right and Dominion over this their Province as it is now established by their Majesties Authority in the administration of his Excellency with our Lives and Fortunes against all their Majesties Enemies By Order of the House of Representatives Ja. Graham Speaker An Address to his Excellency Collonel Slaughter May it please your Excellency WE Their Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects convened by their Majesties most grac●ous Favour in General Assembly in this Province do in all most Humble manner heartily congratulate your Excellency's arrival in this Government and withal pre●ume to acquaint your Excellency That as in our hearts we do abhor and detest all the Rebellions A●bitrary and Illegal Proceedings of the late U●urpers of their Majesties Authority over this Province so we do from the bottom of our hearts with all Integri●y acknowledge and declare That there are none that can or ought to have Right to Rule and Govern their Majesties Subj●cts here but by their Majesties Authority which is now placed in your Excellency And therefore we do solemnly declare That we will with our Lives and Fortunes support and maintain the Administration of your Excellency's Government under their Majesties against all their Majesties Enemies whatsoever And this we humbly pray your Excellency to accept as the sincere Acknowledgment of all their Majesties good Subjects within this their Province praying for their Majesties long and happy Reign over us and that your Excellency may long Live and Rule us according to Their Majesties most Excellent Constitution of Governing his Subjects by a General Assembly By Order of the House of Representatives Ja. Graham Speaker April 17. 1691. At the Court at White-hall the 17th of March 1691. PRESENT The Queens most Excellent Majesty in Council WHereas the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee for Trade and Plantations have by their Report dated the 11th Instant represented to Her Majesty That they have examin'd the matter of the Petition of Jacob Leyster the Son of Jacob Leyster of New-York deceased referred to the Committee by Her Majesty's Order in Coucil of the 7th of January last Complaining of Proceedings against his Father and Jacob Milbourn by Coll. Slaughter at New-York who were thereupon condemned and put to Death and their Estates confiscated And their Lordships having fully heard the said Jacob Leyster the Petitioner by his Council learned upon the whole matter are humbly of Opinion That the said Jacob Leyster and Jacob 〈◊〉 dec●●s●d w●● condemned have suffered according to Law But th● Lordship● do humbly offer th●ir Intercession to her Maje●●● in behalf of their Familie● as fit Objects of their Majesti●● Mercy That the Estates of the said Jacob Leyster and J●●●b Millbourn deceased may b● Restored to them upon their humble Application to their Majesties by Petition fo● the same Her Majesty in Council is this day pleased to Approve the said Report and to declare That upon the humble Application of the Relations of the said Jacob Leyster and Jacob Millbourn deceased Her Majesty will order the E●tates of Jacob Leyster and Jacob Milbourn to be restored to their Families a● Objects of her Majesties Mercy Rich. Colinge FINIS