Their answer was, tjiat they in due time, when the nomination ought to have been made, called the inhabitants together, and requested them to nominate new magistrates for the ensuing year, who decHned to do so at two different times, because they had been summoned by those of Hartford in Connecticut colony, as clearly appears by the following English documents^ conveyed to them for this purpose, by the aforesaid colony, with the declaration of the aforesaid village, in the form of a letter to the Director General. Being further questioned why they did not communicate the aforesaid orders and letters of Connecticut colony, so as they ought to have done, and as other English villages actually did at the past instance, now more than half a year past, and now above it, had actually de novo, appointed two of their village to go and assist in the aforesaid order, on the stated day, at Hartford. Tiiey answer in the first, that they as magistrates, solicited an order to present to us the nomination, but that they could not obtain it while it was refused by me, Mr. Richard Mills who had it in his possession, or by an order of the people of that village, or in his own authority unknown to them. At last, they acknowledged and declared, that they through ignorance to maintain the peace and tranquility in said village, had committed a Aiult, and solicited with submission and prayed, to be excused for the present time. The director general and council having heard the submission and confession of guilt of the aforesaid persons, together