CrKNTLENfKN -- I liave received your acceptable letter the 18 of this instant & communicated as directed, wee have considered the contents with due affection & returne you many thanks for your friendly & neighbourly advice, & embrace with all our hearts your oilers of a mutuall & amiable correspondance with you, which we shall labour to keep & preserve inviolable towards you, & witliout fail shall omitt nothing that may appeare any wayes to your intrest peace & wellfare as we also doe with Boston & Connecticutt collony being of the same opinion with you, that it is the onely racanes to preserve their Maj : intrest & to prevent the papists & popishly eviil affected adversaries to effect & bring to pass their wicked intents & designes ag* their MaUes loyall protestant subjects throw all his dominions in these parts of America, as we have good cause to suspect with you by severall depositions & circumstances before us thereunto relating. It is 3 weeks agoe

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that I heard of some of your papist grandees to be at Philadelphia expecting them nearer these parts to conferr with some of our papists, & for some bad designc, for the which I made all the Inquisition imaginable with resolution to secure them, well If I had found them, but I beleeve hearing the absence of Collo" Dongan he wis at Rhoad Island where sir Edmond Andross anyved the same tyme, having made his escape from Boston (where he is now in fast hold again) the s<i dongan is now in these parts agam, he hes ranged all the country & is mett daily by several! where it may be also they may come, I shall omiti nothing if I heare of them to secure them, I gott a printed proclamation from new England the 21 June of their Mamies King William &.