To all and singular Rectors and Parish Ministers whatsoever, in the Province of New-York, or to Andrew Merrit and Ebenezer Kniffen, the present Churchwardens of the Parish of Rye, in the County of M'estchester, and to the Vestrymen of the said Parish, and to each and every of you, greeting : -- AVhereas, I have admitted our beloved in Christ, Ebenezer Punderson, Clerk, to the Rectory of the Parish Church at Eye, commonly called Grace Church, and of the Parish of Eye, including the several districts or precincts of Eye, JIamaroneck, and Bedford, in the County of Westchester, within this government, to which the said Ebenezer Punderson was presented unto me by the Churchwardens and Vestrymen of the said Parish, the true and undoubted patrons of the said Parish, vacant, as is say'd by the natural death of James Wetmore, the last incundient there, on or about the nineteenth day of Jlay, one thousand seven hundred and sixty ; and him, the said Ebenezer Pundei-son, I have instituted into the Rectory of the said Parish Church and Parish, with all their rights, members, and appurtenances, observing the laws and canons of right, in that behalf required and to be observed. To you therefore, jointly and severally, I do commit, and firmly injoining. do command each and every of you, that in due manner, him, the said Ebenezer Punderson, or his lawfull Proctor, in his name, and for him into the real actiial, and corporal possession of the Rectory of the said Parish Church and Parish, including the districts and precincts aforesaid, and all of their rights and appurtenances, whatsoever, you induct, or cause to be inducted, and him so inducted you do defend : and of what you shall have done in the premises thereof, you do duely certify unto me or other competent judge, in that behalf, when there unto you shall be duely required.