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. And so Wee bid you farewell. Given at Our Court at S' James's the Sixth day of February 1712| 3. In the Eleventh Year of Our Reigne. ^*

By Her Maj'y's Command

Dartmouth ,

270 PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

*REV^ W POYER TO GOVERNOR HUNTER.

Jamaica Jany 20th 1713

May it please your Excellency

Yesterday tlie Vestry of this parisli met here in order to lay a tax for the Minister and poor where I made my appearance and produced your Excellency's letter to me with tlie Copy of the 72^ Ai'ticle of lier Majesty's instructions to your Excellency. But the Vestry peremptorily refused to admit me amongst them and upon my denying to quit the room they removed themselves to another Apartment in the same house telling me I had nothing to do there thougli they did not forget to take M^Nish along with them who had just before told me he had more business tliere than myself.