My Lord Cornbury invited us to dine with him at Fort Henry, as accordingly we did after Sermon, and at Several other times at his desire we dined with him. There is a brave congregation ol people belonging to the Church here, as well as a very fine fabric of a church, and the Rev. M^" Vesey very much esteemed and loved both for his ministry and good life, and the like I can say of all the other ministers of the Church, where I have travelled as at Boston, at Rhode Island, and Philadelpliia.

For an instance of his Excellency, my Lord Cornbury, his good and cordial affections to the Church, and to us as ministers thereof, I send to your lordships the inclosed recommendation he has been pleased to give me to all the justices of peace in his government, occasioned by the late abusive entertainment I mett from the Quakers in their meeting at Flushing on Long Island, concerning which I complained to Jiis Excellency. Before we go out of this province, w^e design to visit the Quakers again att Flushing, and in some other parts, and to try what influence my lord's recommendation will have upon them to give me a hearing vv'ithout interruption. *******

New York, 29 Novemb"- 1703.

PAPERS RLLATliS^G TO THE CITI OF NEW-YORK. 415

PETITION OF THE HECTOR &c., OF TRINITY CHURCH, N. Y.,

TO APPROPRIATE TO THE CHURCH, CERTAIN FUNDS RAISED FOR THE REDEMPTION OF CAPTIVES IN BARBARY.

To His Excellency Edward Viscount Cornbury Captain