Whereupon the Mayor and Aldermen were suspended and some persons confined, who were the most eminent in opposing Their Ma*^ Interest and this Revolution, and some short time after this Their Mat^^ Letter arrived Directed to Cap* Francis Nicholson Esqr Lieu* Governor of Their Ma's Province of New York and in his absence, to such as for the time being do take, care for the preservation of their Ma^^^ Peace, and Administring ye Laws in that Their Ma's Province, Ordering such to take upon them the Place of Lieu' Governor and Commander in Chief of the said Province, and to proclaim King William & Queen Mary King & Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland and Supreme Lord and Lady of the Province of New York, if not already done, which was accordingly performed.

. The Inhabitants of the said City and Province conceiving that by vertue of Their Ma^* said Letter, the said Cap* Leisler was sufficiently Impowered to Receive the same and to act accor dingly It gave them a generall satisfaction, whereupon the said

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Committee were immediately dismissed and a Councill chosen by whose assistance Cap* Leislcr acts in the said Governmt pursuant to His Mats Order.

The members of the former Government notwithstanding gave all the opposition they could to this Reformation & have created a fFaction in the said Province to the endangering y® loss thereof, since it happens at a time that we are under continuall alarms from the frequent attacks the French make upon our Frontiers, so that without the care and precaution aforesaid this Their Ma'^ Province was in apparent hazard of being delivered up to the Canada Forces belonging to the French King, whereby Their present Mats most loyall protestant subjects of this Province would have been rendered miserable, equall to their fears, and this Province became a Colony of the French.