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A84642	An account of several passages and letters between His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher, captain general and governour in chief of the province of New-York, province of Pennsilvania, county of New-Castle, &c. commissionated by Their Majesties under the Great Seal of England, to be their lieut. and commander in chief of the militia, and of all forces by sea and land within Their Majesties collony of Connecticut, and of all forts and places of strength within the same. And the present administrators of the laws in the collony of Connecticut, in the month of October, 1693	New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher); Fletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703.; Treat, Robert, ca. 1622-1710.; Connecticut. General Assembly.	1693 (1693)	Wing F1299; ESTC W16315	6,457	15

their Protestant King The Letters from Albany do still intimate That they are apprehensive that they will be attacked by the Enemy and if that Post should be lost for want of your Complyance to their Majesties Commission you may be sensible of what dangerous consequence the same would be to your selves The Jarseys are under the same Circumstances with your selves in respect of their Charter yet have willingly submitted to the Kings pleasure and Right of the Millitia who are commanded by his Excellency 〈◊〉 the Governour of that Collony acts there without the least interruption He calls Assemblies makes Laws raises Money ordains and keeps Courts only commands the Militia under his Excellency who has not altered one single Officer in that Collony Gentlemen We are to conclude with the last thing his Excelleny gave us in charge That the fatal Consequences of your Proceedures as it appears to his Excellency will be repented by you and your Posterity when 't is too late You are the only People in all the Kings Dominions that will venture to dispute with our King who is a Souldier concerning that inherent Right of the Militia settled upon the Crown by several Acts of Parliament and cannot be aliened nor demised N. Bayard M. Clarkson The 26th day his Excellency received the following Paper from the General Court To his Excellency Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Governour in Chief of their Majesties Province of New-York c. IN Return to your Excellency's Demands of the Militia of us their Majesties general Court of their Collony of Connecticut We say That finding in your Excellency's Commission no express superseding of the Commission of the Militia in our Charter nor no Order to us from their Majesties to surrender the same and being sensible of the great Importance of this matter and finding it in several main things which do need a particular Explication and Settlement as we shall God willing manifest to their Majesties cannot but conceive it our Duty both with respect to their Majesties Service and our own Peace and Preservation in this time of War to continue the Militia as formerly till by our Agent now sent for England we shall receive farther Orders from their Majesties And in Obedience to their Majesties gracious Letters of March the 3d. 1692. we shall be ready upon all just occasions to yeild Assistance to his Excellency Coll. Benjamin Fletcher Esq his Majesties Captain General and Governour of New-York c. and to the Commander there in Chief for the time being for the Defence of the said Province against the common Enemy according to our Ability and in proportion with our Neighbouring Collonies and Provinces altho' we have already been out above five Thousand Pounds for the defending our Neighbours of Albany since the War began besides the loss of Lives And further this Court does see reason to grant the sum of six hundred Pounds in Country Pay out of our Country Rate towards the Charge of maintaining the Garrison at Albany onward of what shall be our Proportion of that Charge in Obedience to Their Majesties Letter of the 3d of March last By Order of the Governour and General Court of Connecticut signed by John Allyn Secr. Hartford October 25. 1693. And about two hours after his Excellency made this Return by Coll. Bayard To the Governour and General Court of Connecticut sitting at Hartford October 26. 1693. Gentlemen I Have received your Paper which is no Answer to my Memorial for I do not demand the Militia from you knowing very well as you your selves do That you have no right to it it being settled on the Kings and Queens of England and their Successors by several Acts of Parliament and by no Power on Earth can be demised from the present Possessor of the Crown But I have in tender regard to this English Collony given in my Memorial to you the preseur Administrators of the Government here in expectation of your ready Compliance to their Majesties Patent and your Assistance to me being a stranger in these parts for the more speedy and effectual execution of that lawful Commission whith is granted in Grace by their Majesties as well for your Security and Defence as the Assertion of their own Right and this has in no part of their Dominions found a Rub or Contest I do therefore in their Majesties Names demand your Obedience to this Commission as you will answer the Consequences that will ensue and expect a speedy Reply in one of these two words Yes or No. Ben. Fletcher By his Excellency Benjamin Fletcher Their Majesties Lieutenant and Commander in Chief of the Militia and of all the Forces by Sea and Land within their Majesties Collony of Connecticut and of all the Forts and places of Strength within the same M. Clarkson Secretary Coll. Bayard had also in Charge to deliver this Message Gentlemen I Am further to tell you from his Excellency the General That he is resolved to put their Majesties Commission in Execution and immediately issue forth a Proclamation shewing the method he has taken for the ease and satisfaction of their Majesties Subjects in this Collony leaving the Militia in the same hands he found it And I am also directed by his Excellency to make you Governour Treat a tender of a Commission from him for the Command of all the Militia in this Collony And also to acquaint this Court That his Excellency has neither Power nor Intention to invade any of their Civil Rights but that all things may run in the same Channel with no alteration but only your acknowledging the Power of the Militia an inherent Right in their Majesties And I may assure you from his Excellency That he will not set a foot out of this Collony till he sees an Obedience paid to this Commission by all such as are Loyal Subjects to their Majesties and will distinguish the rest By his Excellency's Command N. BAYARD Coll. Bayard returning from the General Court c. acquainted his Excellency That they desired a Copy of their Majesties Letters Patents and that they promised to make a speedy Reply to his Excellency's Answer sent by the aforesaid Coll. Bayard His Excellency ordered Coll. Bayard and Secretary Clarkson immediately to carry the Original Patent to the General Court and to leave it with them for their perusal and withal to require them to cause it to be entred in the Publick Records of this Collony Which Message was accordingly performed Whereupon Secretary Allyn made answer That it could not be done whilst the Court was fitting but seemed to be willing to do the same after the Court should be broke up and then promised to return the Original to his Excellency In the Evening the following Paper was sent to his Excellency from the General Court To his Excellency Collonol Benjamin Fletcher Esq Captain General and Governour in Chief of their Majesties Province of New-York c. Hartford Octob. 26. 1693. Excellent SIR YOurs of October