The Humble petition of Nicholas Bayard Humbly Sheweth -- That the petitioner & Prisoner since this two days, has been taken with an extreme sickness in Body, & humbly craves your Honorable Commisiration, the Petitioner acknowledging his great Error in disgrading the authority which he humbly ownes & Craves pardon for -- Praying that he may be releaved from his dismal detention, promising to behave himself from henceforth with all submission & perform Whatever your honours shall be pleased to adjudge against him. Praying that his Errors may be attributed depriving from his impatience & vents of his foolish passion, & therefore that the honours will be pleased to remit his fault at least by rising from this misserable Confinement. •

<&. the Petitioners as in duty bound shall Ever pray 8i. remain your Honours Humble Serv*. 24 Jan'y 1689-90. On the Indorsement was written The petition of Colonel Nicholas Bayard Jan'y 24, 1689.

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I. M. CI. Council

To the Honorable Jacob Leisler Esq"" Lieut Gouenor of the Province of New York & the Honb' Council

The Humble Petition of Nicholas Bayard Humbly Sheweth, that the distressed Petitioner is Still continuing very sick in Body and to his great sorrow was heard of the Slaughters & Murders which the french and Indians of Cannida have lately committed at Schaneghtede, but that which releaves the distressed Petition!" to the heart is that the Petition"" should be accused of being the occasion thereof -- by writing of letters to Albany, for to create