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

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argument and argued with a great deal of force in favor of the Church who he said he could not help thinking was in the right with respect to their claims that they might be sure matters of

property be determined by the ordinary course

of the law by which perhaps they being numerous might w^eary Mr Poyer l^eing a poor man but tliat M'' Poyer should have his purse for the carrying on that suit ; a day or two afterwards told M^ Poyer so himself ; sometime after that wrote to him giving the Gf^ntleman who carried the letter in charge to tell him be still continued in the same mind the Goverr being at Jamaica repeated the offer of bearing the whole charge of the suit & pressed M^ Poyer to undertake it. Col] Heathcote also pressed him to undertake it giving liim the same assui-ance from the Governor & Poyer Promised to do it but has been prevailed on to decline that method (as he says) 'till their representation reach England and I beUeve the poor man and liis friends are weak enough to believe that their superiors there will enter into measures to displace the Governor for not' Dragooning in their favor as his predecessor did or get orders for his so doing which may gratify their little Itch and thats all, for it will be very far from doing any good.