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the rest remaining devout k attentive tlie whole time of service after which we lock't the church door & committed the key into the hands of the Sheriff; we were no sooner got into an adjoining house but some persons came to demand tlie key of their meeting house wliich being denied tliey went & broke the Glass window & put a Boy in to open the door & so put in their seats & took away the pew cushion saying they would keep that however for their own Minister the scolding & wrangling that ensued are by me ineffible -- The next time I saw my Lord Cornbury he thanked me & said he would do the clmrch & me justice, accordingly he summoned M"" Hobbart & the head of the faction before him & forbad M' Hobbart ever more to preach in the Church, for in regard it was built by a pu]>lick tax it did appertain to the Establislied church (which it has quietly remained ever since & now in possession of our Rev^ Brother M"^ Urquhart) my Lord Cornbury threatened them all witli the penalty of the Statute for disturbing divine service, but upon their submission & promise of future quietness & peace he pardoned the offence.

%* The above letter has reference apparently to the Riot of July, 170,3, noticed in the order of Council of the 27th of that month. See Ante. p. '2D2.

^- THE SAME TO THE SAME.

West Chester in America 30 October 1709