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.

And to that height of insolence was that disaffected Party growne, that in a riotous manner in the day time they besett and surrounded the s^ Cap^: Leisler our Lievt. Gov^ in the street treating him with ill Language & threats & had undoubtedly done violence to his person, had they not been apprehensive of dangei to themselves from the people, who immediately gathered to<vether and rescued the Governor out of their hands, seizing some of the principal] actors and Ringleaders in that Ryott and committing them to prison, and their ffriends and confederates sending them provisions to the prison in a superabundant and extraordinary manner, designedly to affront and insult the Governing: thereupon it was thought fit to order, that no provisions should be permitted to be brought them, and they should only he allowed Bread and water, but that severity was continued towards them only for two dales, and aiterw^ards they had the Liberty to have what Provisions they pleased.