Their iMiyestyes, l)y their proclannitiou of ye 25th of April, lliS'.i, ilid grant them an a/.ile in all their dominions, with their Royall prittection ; Wherefore they were invited to come ami buy lands in this province, to the end that they might by their labour help the uecessityes of their families, and did spend therein all their small store, with the help of their friends, whereof they did borrow great sums of money, having been contpelled to sell for that purpose the things which are nuist necessary for their use. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Excellency nniy be pleased to take their Case in Serious Consideration, and out of charity and pity to graut them for some yeare what help and privileges your E.xceltency shall think Convenient, and your petitioned iu duty bound shall ever pray Ac.

"Tii.vi VET Elsi CoTnoNE.n ."

The patents of the towns of New Rochelle and Pelham are both of them ancient and curious documents, illustrative of the quaint orthography and prodigious legal verbiage of a past age.

The following is John Pell's grant of New Rochelle in 1G89:

" Til I'll (.'hrMUiH ptoplf to whom this present writing shall come John Pell, proprietor of the Manor of Pelham, within the County of West Chester, in the province of New York, within the dominion of New Englanil, gentleman, and Rachel, his wife, sendetli greeting in our Lord fiod everlasting. Know Yee that the said John I'ell and Rachel, his wife, for and in consideration of the stun of sixteen hunilred anil seventy-five {>ounds and twenty-five shillings sterling, current silver money of this jiroviuce, to him in hand [laid and secured to be paid at the or before the ensealing and the delivery thereof by Jacob Leisler, of the city of Now York, Merchant, the receipt whereof they, the said John Pell and Rachel, his wife, do thereby acknowledge themselves to lie fully i Siilisfied and contented, and thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof do hereby freely and clearly acipiit and Fxhonerate and discharge the Stkid Jacob Leisler, his heirs, e-xecutors, administrators and every of them, by thest; presents have granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said Jacob Leisler, his heirs and assignees, all the tract of land lying and being within said Manor of Pelham, containing sLx thousand acres of land and also one hundred