Discharge Cap* Bleeker and Cap* Wendel not to Convein there Companies together nor beat any Drums, to Disturbe y« Peace of there Maj** Leige People of this Citty, Since y« s'^ Magistrates are Resolved to use all means and methods to Preserve ye Peace of our Souveraigne Lord king William & Queen Mary and not to suffer y® Least Innovation or Alteration in y* goveri>- ment of this Citty and County till orders comes from his Maj® King William for y® same, which never hath been hitherto showne

Resolved that for y® Preservation of y® Peace of our Souveraign Lord & Lady King William & Queen Mary and y* wellfare of the Inhabitants of this Citty and County of Albanie the following Protest be Published in a most Solemn manner tomorrow, only Cap* Wendel & Cap* Bleeker say they will have nothing to doe w*'' y® Protest when they heard it Read

Whereas Jacob Leysler of y« City of N: Yorke Merchant hath for some monthes past assumed to himself a Power to Command there Maj^^ Fort at N: Yorke, and brougt to his Devotion severall of y® adjacent Tounes and Villages without y® Least Commission or Authority derived to him from y« Croune of England; whose Ambitious and Restlesse Spiritt, together with Diverse of his associates have Indefaticably strove and Endevord to bring there Maj^^ King William and Queen Marys Loveing subjects in y® City and County of albany unto y® same Confusion and Slavery, upon Pretence to Redeem them from Arbitrary Power, and to free them from y* Yoke of Popery, which his Creatures when Last here did Endevor to Infuse into y" heads of y® People and to stirr them up to Sedition and Dissobedience to y^ Lawfull Authority Confirmed by there Maj^^ most Gracious Proclamation J But he the said Leysler not attaining his aim, which was y« Subversion of y*" Governm* of this Citty and County (so Extream Dangerous at this Juncture by Reason of y« Indians) Continues Still his Malice, and Endevors to Disquiet there Maj^s Leige People, by assumeing to himself the Titell of Leif ' Governour and Commander in Cheeffe of there Maj^^ Province of N: Yorke, without y* Least Shadow of orders or authority so to doe from hismost Sacred Maj® King William, Deludeing the Common