GouERNouR Treat -- Honored Sir, Ye terms agreed on by ye Liftenant Gouernor and Connecite for ye volentears to be raised for ye ' on to Albany, is twenty five shillings p'^ month, besides tiieire provisions and free plunder to such as shall goe out with the macqwas and Sinecas to Mont Riall or any place in Canada, which incoragraent plase to acquaint your neighbours with, whereby you will oblidge you reall friends and neighbers --

Samuell Edsall Elkanah Pembroke

BY THE LIEV^ GOVERNOR

Whereas There is made an Ordr of Councell dated this day to Secure all porke w*** in this City to be Brought to his Ma'ies Store howse for his s^ Ma*^'*es service --

These are therefore in hi§ Ma*'®s name to will and require you to make dilig* Enquiry & Search In all sellars stores pack bowses and other places where you Know suspect or hear of any to Be and take an Exact ace* of y^ names of y® owners & y® q* thereof & secure s^ porke in his Ma^'^^s Stores as afores<^ & in Case of refusall for opening s^ sellars stores & pack bowses to use all manuall force to Brake open y® same to Effect ye Premisses & this shall be your spetiall Warrt Given &c this 15*^ day of May, 1690. • Jacob Leisler

To THE Governor of Barbadoes.

A : 1690: 17 May in fert william

Honorable Sir -- your courteous Letter of the 21*^ January I have received thought it my duty to returne an answer about the tuo irish rogues. I wrote to Maryland & Virginia & gott an answer from Coll: Good Chiefe commander in Maryland, in the words following I am heartily sorry I had no account sooner of these tuo rogues Henly & welch, I had thern very lately in custody upon Suspitione being strangers Irishmen papists & coming from 1 Here the sheet is torn and a sentence or two missing.