That your Majesty out of your pious concern that all your good subjects in all parts of your dominions should be instructed in the principles of our most Holy Religion hath been pleased to give instructions to the Governors of your plantations in America and particularly to the Governors of New Yorke k Jersey that they should take especial care tliat God Almighty should be devoutly & duly served throughout their Governments That the Book of Common Pra3^er as by law established should be read each Sunday & Holiday and the Sacraments administered according to the rites of the Ciiurch of England and that your Governor should not present any Minister to any Ecclesiastical Eenefice without a Certificate froin the Right Reverend Father in God the Bishop of London of his being

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conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church oi England.

That Kobert Hunter Esq"" the present Governor of the province of New York and Jersey hath in obedience to your Majesty's said instructions ordered one M"^ Thomas Poyer a person dulj qualified according to these instructions to be inducted into t.h« Rectory of tlie parish of Jamaica in Long Island within the said province vacant by the death of M"^ Urquhart late Rector of the said parish wiio had for some years quietly enjoyed the profit? of the said Rectory.

That the Clergy of that province have represented to us that notwithstanding such instructions of the said M^ Poyer by the Authority of your Government agreably to your Majesty's instructions jet by the violence of some Sectaries notoriously disaftected to the Church, the said William Poyer hath been wrongfully and forceably kept out of the parsonage house and Glebe and hath not received any of the profits thereunto annexed to which he is by law duly entitled.