These are in his Ma^i^s Name to authorize and appoint you Majr Jacob Milborne to take what forces you can Raise wheresoever you shall come w^Mn this Province to Superintend y« said Orders & them to whom they are directed y^ Same to Ord"" direct fulfill Controule and in all things relating his Maj''^^ Service to prosecute w^ all violence & act of hostility as to You shall seeme meet & y^ s^ rebells wholly to Subdue & all others that are refractory to y^ Establisht Governm*^ to suppresse in such method & by force as shall be requisite ; & all Officers Civill & Military are hereby required to be aiding & assisting to you herein as they shall answer the Contrary at their Utmost Perill & w*soever you shall find requisite to doe in y« p^misses for his Majt'^s Service this shall be to you a sufficient Warr^ Given &c. 28*^ Octob^ 1690

Jacob Leisler

BY THE LIEV^ GOVERNOR &ca

N Yorke Forasmuch as there are many Seditious persons who without any provocacon Have taken up Armes an apeared in a rebellious manner against their Maj''®^ Authority within Queens County on long Island and under Spitious p'tence have Drawne aside and Caused Certaine numbers of his Maj'i^s Leige Subjects to abett with them Contrary to their allegiance and Bounden duety and ye peace of our Lord y« King his Crowne & dignity & ye Sucurty & Welfare of y^ Good inhabitants thereof being of fatall Consequences (^onsulerinr^ v^ present Warr w* y^ french & ye Impending Dangers w"*' ttircatwi us at y® fronteers of this Province (Albany) if the same be not Sucured Hail defeniled from ye Ennemies & their adherents which is much obstructed hereby as Likewise pro-