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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49375	Loyalty vindicated being an answer to a late false, seditious & scandalous pamphlet entituled 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 : published for the sake of truth & justice / by a hearty lover of King William and the Protestant religion.	Hearty lover of King William and the Protestant religion.	1698 (1698)	Wing L3384; ESTC R2968	19,709	28

the Adopted Son of the father of Lyes For major Ingoldesby having no Commission nor Authority to Command on his Arrival took on him the Title of Commander in Chief usurp'd a shew of Government calling a Council and Issuing peremptory orders as appears by the Records of the Council Book nay quite contrary to the Romantick Account of the Libeller he sent a demand under his own hand which I have seen wherein he acknowledges Capt. Leislers offer to him of his own Houses in the City for the Accommodation of himself and Officers and to appoint fit Quarters for the Souldiers which major Ingoldesby under his hand denyes to accept of saying he demanded the Fort from him which unless Capt. Leisler would deliver up to him he would esteem him as an Enemy to King WILLIAM and Queen MARY I have likewise seen Capt. Leislers Letter to major Ingoldesby full of Civility and true Reason wherein he acquaints him that he held the Fort and Commanded by Virtue of a trust reposed in him by the People and confirmed by His Majesty and assuring him that if he had any Commission from His Majesty or any Instruction or Order from Coll. Slaughter appointed Governour of the Province on his producing it The Fort should be immediately delivered to him but desired to be excused from resigning his trust till he found one qualifyed and authorized to receive it from him But this was not satisfaction to major Ingoldesby who was prevailed with to take the Government on him in opposition to Capt. Leisler and as Governour in Chief although never Impowred by King or People he issues orders to the several Counties to be ready to attend and assist in opposing Leisler and his party with Arms which was the proclaiming open War and pursuant thereto he sends his Rounds in the night and ordered or permitted his Rounds at all hours to pass the guards and centrys on the Walls of the Fort and not to make answer but by reproachful Language when challenged by them in order to provoke the drawing of blood and ingaging the People in a Civil War and farther major Ingoldesby ordered all the men under his Command to wear Marks on their Arms to distinguish them from those who joyned with Capt. Leisler During this Revolution and Civil War I am told not above two persons were killed which happiness attended the moderate temper of Capt. Leisler and the Committee of safety who could not be raised to punish the Insolence of the Tory party suitable to what they gave just occasion for Soon after viz. in March about a Month or five Weeks after major Ingoldesby's usurpation Coll. Slaughter Arrived who Summoned the Fort late at night and contrary to the Libellers assertion it was never den●ed to be delivered but the delivery suspended till next Morning it not being prope● according to Military Rules to deliver a Fort in the night and then it was Surrendred by Capt. Leisler who wa●●ing on the Captain General Coll. Slaughter instead of thanks for the faithful Service he had done His Majesty in defending the Fort and Province from the French our professed Enemies and the Treachery of Papists and Jacobites amongst our selves was immediately by his order Seized with Mr. Milbourn and others of the Loyal party and bound over to answer at the next Supream Court of Judicature where Capt. Leisler and Mr. Milbourn pleaded to the Jurisdiction of the Court That whereas he was in possession of the of the Government by the choice of the People and con●●med in it by the Kings Majesties Letters that he was not bound by Law to answer for his Mal Administration in Gove●nm●nt to any Court or Authority but to His Majesty who had intrusted him but this was over-ruled by the Violence of the Court without reason or Law and as Mu●es they were found guilty of High Treason and Murder and although a Reprieve was granted them by Coll. Slaughter until His Majesties pleasure should be known in the matter yet the Violence of the Jacobite party of which sort were most of Capt. 〈◊〉 Judges and Officers of the Court was such that they gave no rest to Coll. Slaughter until by their Importunity they prevailed with him to sign the Dead Warrant And they were Executed accordingly So that the representation of the matter with an account of their Reprieve reached His Majesty at the same time with the account of their Execution and Death So fell Capt. Leisler and Mr. M●●bourn men of known Integrity Honesty and Loyalty and by a pretended course of Law contrary to all Law condemned where their Judges were most of them violent Enemies of the happy Revolution and therefore resolved to revenge themselves on these Gentlemen who were the most Early and Zealous Instruments of it and who had first expended great part of their Estates and then suffered Martyrdom for King WILLIAM and Queen MARY their Religion and Laws The proofs and papers referred to in this account remain in the hands of Mr. Jacob Leisler only Son of Capt. Jacob Leisler the Martyr to Jacobite Revenge The proof that Capt. Leisler was legally Governour of New-York That major Ingoldesby was but a bear Captain of Foot and had no other command in that Province nor authority to demand the Fort from Capt. Leisler The proof that Capt. Leisler did as a good Subject d●liver the Fort to Coll. Slaughter upon demand and his Justification is immediately expressed in the Act of Parliament of England which 〈◊〉 their Attainders and restores their Familie● in Blood and Esate So that this is the full and true account of this Tragedy New-York lay under the Curse of an obsolute Government by King James's Commission to Sir Edmund Andross the people took courage on the first News of the Revolution in England and 〈◊〉 off the Opp●essers and declared for the Prince of Orange th● Lieu●en●nt Governour the Council and Justices of the Peace which met and cal●d themselves a Convention being Officers 〈◊〉 by king James would not declare for the Prince of Orange Wherefore the people did not think themselves 〈◊〉 in their hands but Seized upon the Fort and chose Capt. Leisler Commander of the Fort until 〈…〉 procured a return of Representatives of the 〈◊〉 hol●●rs of the several Counties of the Province who on their meeting making a Declaration for His present Majesty did under their Hands and Seals constitute Capt. Leisler Commander in Chief until the Kings pleasure should be known and likewise appointed him a Council by the name of a Committee of Safety And in these Persons the Government was lodged who proceeded to support themselves by the most moderate methods could be devised The Lieutenant Governour hereupon withdraws out of the Province major Ingoldesby Arrives with Authority over none but his Foot Company and yet demands the Fort which Capt. Leisler durst not deliver to him without betraying his Trust both to the King and People major Ingoldesby usurps the Title of Commander in Chief he