• It is with the higliest sence of Gratitude that we reflect upon your Excellencys most particular favour and goodness to us tlie Magistrates of Queens County by permitting us this way to Justifie ourselves against the Complaints Contained in the petition of Sanuiel Fitch and others preferred to your Excellency concerning some of our Judicial proceedings. To do which . so far as those Complaints relate to us Jointly we are under no manner of Concern, for nothing can be more Remote from the truth than are the Suggestions Alleadged in the said petition.

293 PAFEKS KELATINr, TO CHURCUES IN QUEENS COU^TY.

We ]]umbly begg your Excellency's patience to hear the account oi our whole proceedings in relation to our tiu-ning out the Churcli Wardens of this parish appointing new ones, Raiseing money witliout the Concurrence of the Vestry, and Ordering the payment of that money to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Poyer Minister of Jamaica.

Tliere being some money raised for the Ministers Salary in the liands of John Everet and Thomas Hazard Churcli Wardens ; on the Application of Mr. Poyer some of us signed Warrants ordering them to pay that money to him which they Refuseing to do Complaint was made to us thereof, and . on the O*^*" day of ffebruary last we Ordered them to be summoned before us on tlie 14"! of the same Month according to the Directions of the Explaining Act of the Ministry. Att wliicli Day they appeared and owned that they had refused to pay the money but offered nothing either in Excuse or Justification ; only prayed further time to give their Reasons, because their Council M^ Jamison could not be there and produced a Letter from him to that purpose pose, according to their prayer (when Justice Whitehead was a very earnest Solicitor in their behalf ) We did adjourn to the 23^ Jfebruary, Att which day they came with M-" Attorney General who Appeared in tlieir behalf, and M' Bickley for the prosecution ; M'' Clowes did not at that time speak at all.