Thereby forbidding them to continue in hostility or to commit or persist in any of the aforesaid unwarrantable practices, but to the contrary, that they altogether recede and desist from their pernicious designs, intentions and purposes, or aiding or otherwise encouraging them; and that they do forthwith discharge & disband all the said forces which have been raised within this Province or elsewhere, which are hereby commanded forthwith to return & repair to their several places of abode and stations and to keep the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King as they will answer the consequences which may ensue, by the contrary, to God, their Majesties or his Excellency Col. Sloughter &c -- whether Bloodshed or other Mischiefs or Damages, the effects of their so just provocations, it being our stedfast resolutions to pursue and destroy all such as shall henceforth be found under those wicked circumstances aforesaid; trusting in Almighty God to deliver us from & to render us victorious over their Majesties & our enemies & such impious and unreasonable men. Thus done at Fort William March 16*^ in the S^ year of the reigne of their Majesties William & Mary King & Queen of England &c Anno Dom 1690.

God save King William &. Queen Mary.

346 ADMINISTBATION OF

THE COUNCIL'S ANSWER TO LEISLER'S DECLARATION.

In Answerr to the Letter this morning from Cap** Leisler to Major Ingoldesby &c

That the Severall Articles of Accusation both ags* themselves and the Said Major Ingoldesby in the Said Letter contained are altogether mistaken or false aspersion and Calumnies and no otherwise