malefactors, severally proposeing a Reward to y*" person makeing sucli discovery, wee likewise send yor Excellency Copyes of y© said addresses humbly Recommending y^ same to Yo^ Excellencies Consideration and remaine
Yo'' Excellenceys most ob*
humble Serves
A PROCLAMATION
FOR THE DISCOVERT OF THOSE WHO DESECRATED TRINITY CHURCH,
By His Excellency Robert Hunter^ Esq ; Capt" General and Governor in Chief of the Provinces of New York, New Jersey, and all the Territories thereon depending in America, and Vice Admiral of the same, k^.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, it hatli been represented to me by some of the gentlemen of her Majesty's Council of the Province of New York, that in tlie night between tiie ninth and tenth days of February last^ Trinity Church in tliat City was broke open, the booJis of divine Service, and the vestments dedicated to that use carried out, tore to pieces, and grossly defiled : And whereas, such an impious outrage cannot be supposed to have been perpetrated by any but such as are avowed enemies of religion in general, or to the civil and religious constitution of England in particular, or such as for filthy lucre^ or worse purposes^ may have in ajjpearance conformed to, or complied with either, hut by their unchristian and lewd conversation, and their disloyal and seditious conduct, sufficiently manifest their aversion to loth : to tlie end, therefore, that the actors, abettors, or contrivers of such an unexampled affront to religion and the Church of England may be detected, {md the hellish devices of those who may have endeavoured to load