Bayard and of the other citizens who, as members of the Council, had been associated widi Dongan and Andros in the adminstration of affairs, and who now, with Nicholson, having indeed no orders, were delaying the proclamation of William and Mary, that the captains of the train-bands, induced by Jacob Leisler, one of their number, took possession of the Fort, and declared their determination to protect the province until the coming of the accredited Governor to be sent by William.

Besides the six captains and four hundred men of New York, a company of seventy men from East Chester seems to have been present on this 3d of June and subscribed to the following declaration :

" Hliereae, our inteiitioQ tended only but to the preservatiou of tbe [irolestant religion ami tlie fort of tliis city, to the end tliat we may avoid and prevent the rash judgment of the world in so just a design, we have thought tit to let every body know by these public proclamatione that till the safe arryval of the .ships that we expect every day from his royal highness, the prince of Orange, with orders for the government of this country in the behalf of such person as the said royal highness had chosen and honored with the charge of a Governor, that as soon as the bearer of the said orders shall have let us see his power, then and without any delay execute the said orders punctually, declaring that we do intend to suliniit and obey not only the said orders but also the liearer thereof committed for the execution of the same.'- In witness hereof we have signed these presents the third of June, KiS'J.