Tlic President communicated to this Board a letter from M' Samuell Clowes' of y<= ll^t^ Aprill setting forth that the Dissenters had tliat Day Committed a Riot or forceable Detainer of yo Church at Jamaica And therefore Desired y^ all Due Encouragement might be given to the Queens officers who had committed tlie persons for that Fact Especially by Directing the Attorney Generall to prosecute the ollender

1 An account ol this gentlcrran and of his descendants will be found ia Thompson's Long Island ii. lOli. Aofc.

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The President allso communicated a Mittimus under the Hand and Seal of Robert Reatl Esfi-" one of Her Mcijesties Justices for Keeping tlie Peace in Queens County whereby tiie High Siieriife thereof was Directed to take into his Custody Hugli Carpenter George Wuolsey Jonas Wood Riciiard Olfield Samuel Mills & Jarimiali Smith who he setts forth are convicted of yc said forcable holding (by his own view) and them to keep in the Comon Gaol of said County untill they shall be thence delivered by due Course of Law.

Ordered that the respective Justices of Queens County or the major part thereof Enquire into tiie Facts abovementioned and Lay a true Representation thereof before this Board by Thursday next, and that a Coppy of this Order be forthwith sent to ye said Justices.

Jamaica in Queens County

ye 19th of April 1710.

Wee underwritten Justices of tlie peace of our Sovereigne Lady tlie Queen for Queens County assigned in obedience to an order from the honourable the president & lier Mat'<^s Council of this province dated tlie 13i'' Inst, (to us directed) have Inquired upon oath into the matter of tlie Disturbance in the Church of Jamaica & doe find that M'' Justice Read has proceeded tiierein according to La.vv & tliat tlie Record he has made is a true Representation thereof.