that in pursuance to tliat order both M^ Vazy and yo»' Petitioner were granted Warrants for a yearly pention ending on the 1: of May 1699. but time and minds altering a little while after the said pention was stoped, and yo"^ petioner deprived of the seme.

Yo^ petitioner therefore most humbly represent to yo^ Excellency that by his great aage and numerous family being in greater necessity then ever of such souccours hi most humbly and most earnestly desire yo^ Excellency to vse him v/'^h de same bounty he doth hear M"" Vezey has been allouing the same pention for & from the very same time.

And yo^ petioner as in duty bound shall ever pray

Read in Council 10 Dec^ 1702 and warrants issued for 60 lb

•.•The Rev. Mr. Peiret of whom mention is made in Vol. II. p. 432. and from whom there is a petition dated Octob. 1697. was allowed a pension of £20 per annum until his death, which occurred about the forepart of 1705. He left a widow and five children: He was succeeded, it would appear, by the Rev Mr. Laborie in May 1706. See post

REyi> JOHN TALBOT TO m. GILLINGHAM.

New-York 24 Nov. 1702.

* * * * The Clergy here have had a Sort of convocation at the instance and charge of his Excellency, Colonel Nicholson, Governor of Virginia, we were but seven in all, and a week together w^e Sat considering of ways and means to propogate the Gospel, and to that end we have drawn up a Scheme of the present State of the Church in these provinces, which you shall see when I have time to ti-anscribe it, and I