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. The said Report being laid before Us in Council Wee taking the same into our Royal Consideration have been pleased to approve thereof, and do accordingly hereby signify Our WiU and Pleasure to you, That in Cases where the Church is immediately concerned (as in tiie present Case) Liberty be given to the Clergy to appeale from the Inferiour Courts to Our Governor and the Council only without Limitation of any Summ; And Our further WiU and Pleasure is That as well in this as in other the like Cases, Liberty be given to tlie Clergy to appeale from Our Governor and Council of Our said Province to Us in Our Privy Council without Limitation of any Summ; any former Instruction to you or to any other Our Governor or other Commander in Chief of Our said Province or any usage or Custom to the contrary hereof notwithstanding For which this shall be as well unto you as unto aU others whom it may concern a sufficient Warrant.