Occasionally some bitter opponent of the church of England would try to prevent the performance of their legal duties or the legal exercise of their powers, by word, and deed, sometimes with great heat and violence, just, as the dissenting clergy did in matters of the exercise of clerical functions. But their legal rights and duties as parish officers under the laws of the Province were never contested or denied in the Courts of the Province. The People knew theni perfectly and acted accordingly. A remarkable proof of this was furnished in the case of the Parish of Rye, in 1794, eleven years after the peace of 1783, and six years after the first organization of the County into township.*, in 1688, which terminated the political existence of the Parishes and the Manors. Certain creditors of the " late Parish of Rye," in that year obtained payment of the debts due them from the various newly organized towns formerly parts of that Parish, through an Act of the Legislature of the State passed for that express purpose. The executors of one of the Creditors sued " .Joshua Purdy one of the Church Wardens of the late Parish of Rye " and recovered judgment. Thereupon he and the other creditors laid the case before the Legislature which granted the relief sought by passing the following Act, thus showing the continued and acknowledged lawful action of the Parochial officers of the Parish of Rye, under the Ministry Act of 1(59.3, which created the Parish, up to its extinction by the Act of 1784, repealing that Act, and its subsequent transformation into townships by the Act of 1788. The Act with its interesting preamble, and severe provisions for its due enforcement is in these words ; --