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James Duke of York and Albany &c Earle of Vlster &c. Whereas I have had Sufficient Testimony of the Abilityes and Integrity of Josias Clarke Clergyman And of his Fitnesse to be Chaplaine to the Garrison of New Yorke I doe therefore hereby authorize & Require You to Putt him upon the Estabhshm* as Chaplain to the S^ Garrison Accordingly; with such Salary and allowances as are thereunto belonging to Commence from

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Michaelmas next & to Continue Dureing my Pleasure only. For which this Shall be Your Warrant. Given under my hand at Windsor this le'h Day of June 1684.

James To Coll Dongan my

Lieutenant and • Governor of New York

& its Dependencies in '

America

By Command of His Roy" High^s Jo Werden.

•»• A like Commission follows to Alexawder Innes, Clerk and Master of Arts, dated 20th April 1686.

PETITION OP THE LUTHERANS FOR A PATENT.

To the Right Honnourable Coll Thomas Dongan Leiv' & Gouernof of and ouer ye Province of New Yorke &° and to y^ Honnourable Council! . The humble Peticon of the Decons of the Lutrens y^' Church Humbly Sheweth

That yor Peticon''^ was and had allowance and Priveledge to build and erect a Church for our pubUcke y®use on Ground without y® Gate of this Citty and in ord^ thereunto Did erect and build thereon ; and afterwards when Gou"" Colue came was forst to Remove and Breake Down w^" was erected and built on s'l Ground, and in Lew thereof, yo"" peticon^rs -^^ras allotted and Allowed ye Peice of Ground within y^ Gate where y® Erected Church now Stands and house adjacent and had a Patent thereon, but it happens to bee mislay ed Yo"" humble Peticoni'^ most Humbly Requests a Letter or