Whether application was made to him or no I can't tell but some changes in the Magistracy being nuide & by a naistake one or two put in that were patrons of t le Dissenters, M''Poyer & his friends clicse to apply to these tliey weie sure would refuse them and not , to those in place who were firm to their interest and being refused complained to tlie Gov'' who immediately sent ibr the person and ordered liim to be prosecuted that it might appear whether lie had failed in his dutj- or not wiiether tlie i)rosccMtion was confirmed or not I can't tell but I happened to be ill the Govcrnor-s Cliamber when his Judge and a Dissenting MiiLSter came in and tliis matter was talked of he said that the intention of the Legislature at that tihio was to raise a maintenance for a Dissenting Minister, all the Assembly but one being dissenters and knowing nothing of the Church but that being th.e intention of the law makers was tlie meaning of the law and he hoped tlie Dissenters might enjoy what whs so justly tlieir (.hie or at least mA to be deprived of it without due course of law iis tlicy formerly liad Ijeen. I told him the Legislature did not consist of tlu; assembly only but of the Governor and Council j lined with them whose intentions might be quite otheruis • and I believed that it was most certain tlie Governor at t'lHt lime never intended to settle a Dissenting Clergy, that the me;iiiiiig of the Legislature was the meaning of the whole I^cgsl.ilure and not of any part and was most likely to be found our ')••. i'ie words of the Act which most plainly appeared in favor of t!ie Oiiurch of England; the Governor joined in the