Excellency proving ineffectual i I humbly refer your Excellency have obliged me patiently to sit j to the memorials & Petitions I down under the burthen of J have in relation to tliis matter them for about 15 mo^ last past jj presented you and a little lower without the least complaint. || I acquainted yom- Excellency when you was pleased to make that kind & generous offer of your purse to support it that I could not put a matter of so general concern in Action without the advice & direction of my Diocesan and of the Venerable Society &c to whose judgement I had long since submitted the whole affair --

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Observation.

1st If M^' Poyer had made frequent applications & gave the Governor several Memorials & Petitions and liad represented that matter to my Lord of London and the Society, how can it be said that he sate down patiently without making tlie least complain t?

2ndiy ^Vs it cannot be supposed that he made any memorials or petitions without complaining, so 'tis very plain i'rom his own words he could make none to the Governor for to what end could these memorials &° be if he was resolved not to meddle in a case of so general concern without the direction of the Society &,<^ to whom he had as he says submitted it --

3'"y If any memorials & petitions Avere made to the Governor they must be made before or after the beginning of the 15 months not after by his own confession and before lie could not, for from his Induction July IS^h 1710 to the 18"i October following there was but one Quai-ters Salary due and wh.etlier it would be paid liim or not he could not tell 'till he had ustd the methods directed by Law which he did on the 27 h ibllowing being nine days after, so that before there was no room fur any application petition or memorial to the Governor