I hoped to have done this in conjunction with the rest of my Brethren at a meeting proposed to be at Burlington tlie S^i day of this Instant intended as I presume for the very end, but was prevented by an order from our Governor Coll Hunter to meet at a Convention of the Clergy at New York on the 24'^ of February preceding, the design of which convention (as might reasonably have been expected) should in tliis point have concurred witli that of the meeting at Burlington but finding not that but other private particular ends was proposed after a weeks stay from my parish in a very expensive place (therefore also unagreeable with my circumstances) I withdrew myself from 'em and because his Excellency in his Speech had resented some harsh words; I had in the midst of my difficulties made use of in a Letter to his Grace the Lord Ai'chp of York I thought it my duty liumbly to beg his pardon for the indecent mamier of expressing 'em which I did by a letter whereof I herewith present you a copy.

By the advice of Counsel I have lately served the Dissenter who is in possession of the Parsonage house & Glebe with, a Lease of Ejectment for continuing the Claim but with no design of prosecuting to effect for in that I shall not presume to do any thing till I receive the express commands of t'le Venerable Society.

Such explication of her Majesty's Instructions as is petitioned for by the Venerable Society I humbly conceive is tlie very best