posterity, the Lord grant that the offering up of our blood might be a full satisfaction for all disorders to this present day committed, & that forever after the Spiritt of unity might remaine among our felow brethren continuing upon earth, knowing that in a Strange land it is the divine providence of heaven not our desarts that have so well protected our mihappy province this day all that for our dying comfort we can say, as concerning the point for which we were condemn'dj is to declare as our last words, before that God whom we hope before long to see that our mame end, totall Intent & endeavors to the fullness of that understanding with which we were endowed -- whe had no other than to maintaine against popery or any Schism or heresy whatever the interest of our Sovereign Lord & Lady that now is & the reformed protestant Churches in those parts, who ever things otherwise Since have hapined or being misconstructed & Scandalous reports (we at present must confess by divers are thrown upon us) as tho we intended to Support the dying, intrest of the late King James & the Contradiction of which we need not trouble many arguments, being persuaded that every good protestant of this Country who have been for any time acquainted with our transactions can from his conscience averre the falsehoods & maliciousness of such aspersions, as concerning Major Ingoldesby's comming to demand the Garrison after his arrival, he but in the least produced any Satisfaction of his power to receive the same & discharge us, we would as readily have delivered the fort, as he could demand the same, all which seeing past & gone is Scarce worthy nothing --