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

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expedient in tliis aifair and will have a general good consequence for the benefit of the Church throughout America, but for the circumstance of a change of Officers I wish I could not say it is precarious we having in this County had two new Commissions of the peace in ten weeks time and nothing is as yet offered to be done in my belialf but nevertheless the number of my hearers & Communicants increase not a little ; as I am embolden to hope that on the arrival of CoU Nicholson the Church in general here will begin to be in a flourishing condition I humbly offer my duty to tlie Venerable Society & remain

SECT CLARK TO THE REV« M^^ FOYER.

N. York April 2d 1712.

Sr

By his Exiys command I am to tell you in answ^er to yours by M'" Sharp that the same method has been observed in distributing the Proclamations agt imorality and profaneness to the Magistrates and Ministers in y^ County as has been taken for the other Counties throughout the Province viz* by sending a sufficient number to tlie Clerk of the County, from whom you might have had one if you had pleased, but you seem rather to seek occasions of Complaining to his Exly then to perform a duty incumbent on you, but that should not induce you to be angry with others wlio do theirs.