Whereas a Certaine number of People terming themselves a Convention w*^ In the City & County of Albany have vindicated ye authority of Co^ Thomas Dongan & Countenanced his & S^ Edmund Andros their lUegall & Arbitrary Comissions & proceedings acting thereby Likewise having assumed to themselves the Ruling power by keeping his Ma^'-s foj-t Scc^ Contrary to ye Authority of this province to ye great disturbance of his Ma^'ca subjects and other y^ good & peaceable Inhabitants thereof as also Contemning his Ma^'es Orders & directions not only by not proclaiming ther Ma*'es acording to an Order from y^ Rt Hon^ie ye Lords of his Ma^'es Most hon^'e Privy Councill dated ye 29th July 1689 but opposing & in an hostile & rebellious manner forbidding and hindring ye Same besides many others Seditious

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practises all w^'' are pernicious & destruclive to his Ma^'ca Interest yc peace tranquillity & welfare of his Provhice & y^ Governm* thereof; & hath been y^ ocasion of Encouraging y" French & Indian Ennemies to attack and destroy the Inhabitants of Skannechtady, to y"^ great weakning of his Ma^'^^s forces in y'^ s<^ County.

These are to authorise Empower & Constitute you Mrs Joannes de Bruyn Joannes Provoost & Jacob Melbourne to take into your care and under your directions& Comand all y® forces nowraised in N: York and adjacent Countyes w*'' all ammunicon & provisions thereunto apointed & forthw^h proceed from hence to Albany afores'i where you are to Super Intend direct Order and CoutrouU all matters & things relating his Ma^'es Interest & revenue in that County & y® Security & Safety of his people & subjects therein by treating w^h ye Confederate Indians and other Such Methods & Meanes as to you shall seem meet that may Conduce to y® End before menconed likewise to proclaime their' publishing their gracious Orders & denounce war agst ye frencb King &'=^ Subduing Reducing and bringing to their obedience all such who oppose y« same & to settle & establish y^ s*!