The Governour &*=, Robert Cady: John Parsons, Jacob Dayton, John ffield, Samuell Sherry, Olipher Norris, William Hamilton, Daniell Kieff, Simon Hillyer John Richardson, makeing their Complaints that tlie tovvne of Easthampton will lay them out no Land as they were ordered in Councill to doe and it appearing that the said Inhabitants have for more than the space of four yeares payed all dutyes in the aforesayd Towne and are become associates in the same : Ordered that Captaine Josiah Hobart High Sherriffe of the county of Sutfolke see tliat a Surveyor lay out for each person of the aforementioned Inhabitants thirty acres of arable Land within the bounds of Easthampton that is not yet ffenced or Enclosed and appropriated by any person they paying the charges which the sayd Sherritfe and Surveyor shall hee at in the performance of the same and giveing securitye not to dispose or s:dl any of the sayd Land untill it sliall be improved by them. By Order In Councill J: Spragge Seer, Which sayd Order the sayd Josiah Hubbard as in duty bound did follow and obey according to the tennor and effect thereof Yett notvvitiistanding Sam' Mulford, Robert daiton, Samuell Parsons Benjamin Conkling, Thomas Osburne, Jolm Osburne, and all at Easthampton within tlie county ot Suffolk aforesayd did confederate together to bring his Ma'i^s authority into contempt and scorn and particularly in contempt of the sayd Ord'' of Council and against the peace of our sayd Lord the King with fforce and arras did upon the sixth day of October In the yeare of our Lord 1686. att Easthampton in tlie county of Suffolk aforesayd in the daytime Riotously Tumultously Contemptously and unlawfully assemble tliemselves together with diverse others unknown By beating of the drum without any warrant or authority whatever from his sayd Majestye and tliere did publish and affix upon the wall of tlieir meeting house a certaine Scandalous and Libellous paper which follows in these words