But ye Convention Replyed y* he had Delivered y® articles concerning y® quartering ye men on munday morning & ye Proposealls on Munday afternoon, and was thereff)re fitting that first an Issue should be made of ye articles before an answer be given to ye Proposealls, and yt ye answer to )e Proposealls was Ready to be delivered assoon as he had Signd to y® articles. But Refused in ye p'sence of Twelve men whom y® People had chosen to be Present to hear ye Debates between ye Convention and ye s'' Milborne ; whereupon a Certain Paper was Read w^^ had been Delivered to ye s^ Milborne ye day before, ye Purport of which was that they were not Designed to give him any answer to his Proposealls before he had Signd to ye articles which was approved off by s'' 12 men Since it was Plainly Demonstrate how ye s^ milborne had from time to time intended to Delay and Deceive them as by ye Testimoneys can appear

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The Convention Said to y« s^ 12 men that they had used there ultmost Endeavors, & asked if they could Propose or think of any better means or method they would doe well to tell them, and Desyred them to Consult about y^ matter upon which after Consultation they Deputed three of y« 12 men to witt Harme gaascvoort P^^ van waggelum and Jeronimus wendell who made Report to y® Convention then all together at ye Mayors house at Ltast Eighteen in number Harme gansevoort being there Speaker, That they Concurrd with y« Convention and yt y^ s^^ Milborne ought to Sign yc articles, and that ye Convention could doe no more then they had done Referring further the mannagement of that affaire to y® generall Convention Since they were Resolved to trouble themselfs no more about it.