The above written is a true Copy of the Original inmy Oifice.

Geo. Cl^^rke.

May it please your Excellency:

In obedience to yoiu- Excellency's Order "in Council of the 12th instant, Keferring to us the Examination of and into a Report lately spread about, concerning some Letter or Letters lately sent to France, giving an account of the condition of this place. We have taken the Deposition of John van Brugh and Muurice Mewenhuysen, which we have hereunto annixt, and whereto we refer.

We likewise Report to your Excellency, that we showed to the said Maurice Mewenhicysen a Letter writ in French, and a French Book, and that he imderstood very little or nothing of cither of them.

Your Lordships most Obedient Servants,

Tiio. Wenham, R. Mompesson,

New-York, Feb. 25, 1707. John Barborie.

At a Council lield at Fort- Anne in New York the 4th day of March, 1707-8, Present-- i^/5 Excellency Edward Viscount Cornbury. Rip van Dam, • ) John Barborie )

Thomas Wenliam, j ^''^''- Adolph Philhpse, J ^'^''• His Excellency aiid Council liaving considered the Deposi

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tions of Maurice JViewenhuysen and John van Brugh concerning a Letter writ from lience to France^ and taken in tlie Sloop Constant Jibigalj giving some account (as is said) of the condition of this place, do declare unanimously. That they do not think that there is any ground to suspect Capt. Fanmil of holding a Correspondence with France, nor to prosecute him here on the aforesaid Depositions.