Church and that the protestants as well as others should submitt to and pay all Parochial Duties Such a Special Contract We made with M'" Rou before he came over from England to us, and since he has been amongst us whilst he behaved himself Conformable to his agreement and for his encouragment so to continue did come to a second agreement with him and did Considerably enlarge his annual Salary from what it was by our first agreement to be paid him in Quarterly Payments, and as our Congregacon increased We did likewise send for another Minister and provide for his support & Maintainance without diminishing or impairing M' Rou's Stipend ; And this lasted untill We come to find M-- Rou to flagg in his Duty and broach innovacons amongst us Contrary to the said Contract and the Constitution of our Church and altho We often in a friendly manner Requested him to Return to his Duty and perform his Contract with the Consistory he still persisted notwithstanding to pursue his own humour and put us to Defiance with many opprobrious and vile expressions not fit to be Repeated ; Whereupon We thought ourselves dissolved & discharged from our part of the Contract with respect to him and left him to provide for himself If M^" Rou will desert the Consistory when met and refuse or neglect to come when sent for, how are we to blame that he has not been heard, (as he is pleased to say) We are not unsensible of the methods which M' Rou has taken to get a number of Subscriptions in his favour and his Contrivances to remove the Jui-isdictions of this Matter to another Judicature nor of the heat and violence of his Temper, our foundacon is laid upon freedom and liberty of Conscience and is of such sort that if M'" Rou and his Subscribers are minded to seti up another flfrench Congregacon in New York by themselves or to go over to the Church of England as by Law Established or the presbeterian Profession, We do not pretend to have use or Exercise any Coersive power to restrain or punish them for it, much less to Compell them to Return to us, "We should be much better pleased the peticoners should return to and Continue in our Commission and Christian fellowship of their own free will and Choice The flfrench protestants in this City have for the Term and Space of upwards fourty years held