As soon as Govenour Sloiighter arrived an Assembly was called which upon the IS April 1691 -- did present an address to his Excellency, Signed by the Speaker, together with the resolves of that house which when you are pleased to read gives the conclusive Opinion & Judgment of the General Assembly of this Province of all those disorderly proceedings, for which those Iavo have suffered Death & their sentence was since approved by their Majesty of Ever blessed Memory in Council

Many worthy Protestants in England, & other parts of the world, being Sincerely devoted to interest have yet notwithsanding (unacquainted circumstances & not duly

apprised of them, have been more easily induced to give Credit to the false Calumnies of Byassed & Disaffected persons in this province, but in my Oppinion most of those that have come hither so prepossessed -- After so here have been Thorowly

convinced of the & that those men who Suffered death,

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did Zeal for their Majesties interest & the Protestant

Religion, but being of Disperate fortune, trust themselves into power of Purpose to Make up their Wants by the ruin & Plulider of his Majesties Loyal Subjects, & were so far ingaged in their repeated Crimes, that they were driven to that height of Desperation, had not the providence of Almighty God prevented it, the whole Province had been ruined & destroyed --

I have put this in writing at your request, to i^ssist your memory & leave it to his Excelleficy Coll Fletcher & your own Observations, to enlarge upon the Charracters of those Persons, who have been the greatest Sufferers, in the time of those Disorders, & of their Patience & Moderation, Since Your Arrival also of the disaffected, & the Causes which you have frequently observed to hold this province in Disquiet & Trouble, not%vithstanding all which, & the frequent Attacks of the French & Indians Upon our Frontiers, this province have not lost one foot of ground during the War, but have had considerable Advantage upon the Enemy, which Under God is due to the Prudent & Steady conduct & great Care & diligence of Coll.