I am honored with your Excellency's of the 14"i Febry last and being accidentally informed that the Vestry of this Parish was to meet this day (for they meet without giving me any notice thereof) I went to them & acquainted them with the contents of your Excellency's letters to which they paid no manner of obedience but absolutely refused to permit me to sit with them I shall not grate your Excellency's Ears with the relation of the rude circumstances attending tliis refusal tho' I humbly concieve my character deserving of better usage.
I had an Order from two Justices of the Peace to the Church Wardens for a Quarters Salary which they refused to pay (the Vestry and Church Wardens are all Dissenters) and such as by their actings manifest no regard either to the Queen your Excellency her representative here or the Laws of the Province.
Of these things I acquaint your Excellency iu pursuance of your Excellency's command.
May it please &<=
Thos Poyer.
Jamaica 22d April 1714.
May it please your Excellency
These in obedience to your Excellency's order will inform your Excellency that on the 1 9th inst the Justice & Vestry of the Parish met and have ordered the Sixty pounds raised for the maintenance of the minister this year (and which of right can belong to none but myself) to be paid to M^" George M'^^Nish the independent Preacher here which unwarrantable act coming
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