The reaSt)ns, may it please your Lordship, that induced us to send this representation, are drawn from the certain ruin that the loss ol this cause will eventually bring upon the established Church in the whole Government of New York, and which cannot want its bad influences upon the Church in all the adjacent Colony's especially the Jersies & Pennsylvania ; for if upon the death of M"" Urquhart who was so firmly estabhshed by two acts of General Assembly and after about six years quiet possession the salary & parsonage may immediately be seized (with impunity) and enjoyed as they are by these Independents, why may not the rest of the said places in the said provinces (wliicli do all stand upon the same foot) on the death or avoidance of the present Incumbents be in Mke manner invaded by them and in a little time that if it was to be suffered will breed infinite confusion and the dispute will be which of the Dissenters are most numerous for to them according to this practice such vacancys will belong and consequently the Quakers AnabaptiSls t" (+.he?3 e^.eeeding in n'imbers in seme plr.ces) :vill come in foi* a share.

We beg your Lordship to believe that nothing herein contained is designed as the least reflection upon any person it being only the ti-ue plain matter of fact and which we could not out of a diie regard to the interests of the Church & to your Lorilshipsomit the transmitting to your Lordship that if the s^ effect we justly fear should happen to be the consequence of these tlungs We may clear ourselves before God & man as having done what was possible for us to prevent it.