Governor kept this Province for some foreign Prince or State ; though the Words in truth will bear no such construction, as by said letter will appear

That contrary to a declaration of the said Major dated the 2^ Feb wherein he promises that no one under his command shall disturb any of his Majesty's good Subjects, he and his confederates not only continue in prison but strip and beat divers of said subjects who were about their lawful employments & innocent occasions

That the said Major and confederates have fomented & invented seditious distinctions among his Majesty's Subjects of the

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English & Dutch Nations, whereby woeful divisions have arisen to a degree of hate that threatens the destruction of each other if not seasonably prevented.

That the said Major hath upheld, encouraged and protected avowed Papists in arms who act insolently and put the good Inhabitants in fear of their lives by presenting loaded muskets at their bodies when employed, according to their duty, in the King's Service

That the said Major &ca. have forbidden the Lieut. Governor's Officers to proclaim an order by beat of drum, or to pass before the City Hall the customary place thereof, for divers persons both officers and others deserters from Albany and Esopus, to shew cause for quitting their posts and did and do countenance & entertain the said deserters amongst the rebelleous crowd to the abatement & discouragement of his Ma^'^^s Service

That said Major &c. have maintained, employed and entertained some of the French Nation suspected Papists to spy and to betray their majesties fortress by night who were taken in the very fact Extraordinarily armed.