refused to be made tools for their inquisitorial practices, were ordered to be imprisoned "until they "should make discovery or declaration aforesaid." 2 Arrests were made by military officers, even for alleged civil offences ; 3 and, of course, the arbitrary arrests of those who were obnoxious to members of the several County Committees were continued, without abatement* -- the Committee of the City of New York assumed authority to pass over the Hudsonriver, into New Jersey; to arrest six persons, "in " Bergen Woods, near Ball's Ferry ; " and to bring its prisoners over the river, and imprison them in the Jail of the City. 5 Occasionally, food was provided for those who were thus seized and confined ; 6 but such a favor was exceptional : in some instances, the expense of being confined was increased by official extras ; 7 but there was an instance, also, wherein a prisoner, arrested by order of the Commander-in- Chief, was liberated from confinement, by the Convention, and given the largest liberty, with no other condition than that of an elastic parole, only because of his "connection with a large family of well-attached, "warm Whigs," and because it would be " the most "politic course to do so;" 8 and a second instance, wherein " a person of equivocal character," in Westchester-county, 9 and whoae name was included in the List of Suspected Persons on which Frederic Philipse's name also appeared, 10 and who was ostentatiously summoned to appear before the notorious "Committee to " detect Conspiracies," of which his half-brother and