Anne R Trusty and Welbeloved Wee greet you well Whereas the Society fur the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts having made a Representation unto us wherein they set forth the Hardships suffered by Thomas Poyer Clerk in tliat our Province of New- York humbly submitting to us whether in tliis Case and others of tlie like nature Wee may not tbink lit to dispense witli that part of the Instructions given to you W'hereby it is provided that in all Appeales to tlie Governor and Council of Our said Province tlie summ appealed for do "exceed One Hundred Pounds and in all Appeales to Us in Council the summ appealed for do exceed Three Hundred Pounds ster&: Which

PAPERS PuELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEEKS COUNTY. 2G9

Representation being by Us referred to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations tliey have thereupon reported That upon the Death of M^' Urquhart late Rector of the parish of Jamaica in Long Island you inducted M' Thomas Poyer a person duely qualified according to our Instructions in tliat behalf to the Rectory of the said Parish, notwithstanding which, by the violence of some Sectarys disaffected to the Church the said Poyer hath been wrongfully kept out of the Parsonage House and Glebe: That the said Poyer is unwilling to seek his Remedy at Law being apprehensive that if a Cause of the Chui'ch should be tryed and judged by Dissenters he would not find justice, and the value of the said Plouse and Glebe being small an Appeale would not lye from the Inferiour Courts to Our Governor and Council there, Which being the state of the Case Our said Commissioners are humbly o^ Opinion that in Cases where the Church is immediately ooncirned (as in the present Case) Wee be graciously pleased to allow the Clergy Liberty of Appealing from the Inferiour Courts to Our Governour and Council only without Limitation of any Summ.