Our last to you was of the S<^ Jan. 1699 wherein it was stated that Bartholomew Rushton and William Green were alive in Maquines and through our correspondence at Cadiz, we have since used every effort for their redemption, and now lately by letter a copy of which is annexed, we have received the welcome tidings that in virtue of an agreement obtained by the English they will receive their freedom in a few months. Therefore we shall have to contribute but little out of the moneys in our hands. We shall most gladly be advised how and in what manner we are to employ the balance of the money, whetlier in the shipment of goods or on drafts which you may please to draw. Awaiting which we shall end and remain Avith duft respect after our dutiful salutations,

Myn Heeren Your Dutiful Serves

Hero May

Amsterdam, 20 March 1700. William Bancker.

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To liis Excelly Edward Viscount Cornbury Capt*: General! and GoV: in Cheif in and over the Province of New York New Jersey and Territories Depending thereon in America and Vice Admirall of the same &c. May it Please your Excellency. In Obedience to yo:' Lords :ps ord:r in Councill of the 18:'*^ day of July last past We have perused and Examined the Petition of tlie Rector Wardens and Vestry men of Trinity Church in New York thereby to us referred togetlier with the severall papers thereto annexed, and doe find that the severall papers annexed to the said petition Doe make out the allegations therein Contained to be true, and are therefore humbly of opinion that yo:r Excelly: may well graunt the Prayer of the said Petition all which is Nevertheless most humbly submitted to your Excelly : by