In a petition to Governor Burnet, Roux's friends say, " that they are too sensibly touched with the disadvantages they lye under from the misfortunes of their want of his Pastoral care over them, whose exemplary Piety and Instruction for upwards of fourteen years have rendered him exceedingly estimable to all who know him, and which can't but be acknowledged even by those who are now the occasion of your Pet'rs, giving your Excellency this trouble and who side with his assistant, Mr. Moulinar, from whom both as a Brother and a Christian better offices might have been expected than to have found him the penman of such Instrument which are the present motive of all our troubles, &c"*

In Mr. Louis Rou's third memorial in answer to gentlemen of the French Consistory in a petition to the Governor in 1724-25, speaking of the Dissenters from the Church of England as by law established, he •ays :

" In opposition to this National Church they have entertained and fomented for several years a scandalous schism at New Rochel, where

a From Rev. Charles Balrd's forth-coming FUst. of the Huguenots in America.

b Doc. Hist., N. Y.. vol. Ml., p. 466. See Mouliuar's answer, ditto, p. 470. At a meeting of the committee of the Council, March 4th, WU-o, to report to the Governor, they assert that th" congregation of the French Protestant church had no authority to suspend their minister, p. 470.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

the incapacity for providing for a minister obliged the inhabitants to establish an Episcopal Church through the Bounty and Protection of the Society in England ; and they would still support this schism,