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

What he gives as an answer to the several Questions the Governor proposed is not witli that modesty I think became him for it was hJs proper business to get the Information tlie Govcr'" d: sire(i he being the person aggrieved and not to b:d the Govej-nor do tliat himself: he concludes with hoping that letter joined witli the memorials & Petitions he had formerly prefened wMild sulnciently inform his Excellency of the stale of his case.

Any person or Stranger to things that read this and the foregoing parts of his letter would conclude that lie had presented several memorials & petitions witliout any effect but as it is phuhi by whuit goes before he could not, so really he did net, ai;d notliing is more untrue th.an what he asserts far tlie Govejiior protests he never had any ot! er papers petitions or memorials from him or any body else relating to the Chnrcli of Jamaica thnn the Copy N" ( ) and that N" ( ) tlic first a loose ScjIo of paper signed by nobody & wrote in such a manner as I should have been ashamed to h.ave given to an equal the other a Copy