Sometime after when M'" Poyer came to see me, I beg'd of him that since nothing I had said could prevail with him to putt his case In suit, he would be pleas'd to give me In writing what he would have me do for his reliefe. All the answer he gave me was this that he had Long since submitted that matter to his superiors and without their advice he could not move in it.

The last Etfort I made was tliis letter to which I receiv'd this answer, both which I recommend to your perusal and then to your opinion whether any of these Questions so material toward a true state of the case and proper means for a remedy be answered save one.

I am ignorant of the true cause of his backwardnesse but I'll tell you the pretended one. It is that he dare not submitt his case to a Judge who is a dissenter. For my own part I wish from my heart that there were none such in the Province either amongst the Judges or the People, But such are not precluded by ye Laws from the Bench, and the sheriflfe upon wliose choise the Jurys and consequently the cause depends Is one recommended by Mr Poyer and his Friends, tliis by the by; But to show you how groundlesse and frivolous that pretence is being a matter of Property and above the value of 20ibs that is In dispute, it is not cognizable before these Judges but the chiefe Justice who I hope no body wiU say is an enemy to the Churches Interests.