That if this desireable End cannot be Effected the partys who shall think themselves agriev'd ought to apply to the Courts of Justice in this Government for Redress, with that meekness and charity to each other which may Encourage the Government to continue towards them the generous protection under' which they have been long easy, and that there may be no reason now to think that they grow wanton under the abundance of Liberty and Plenty which they Enjoy here, and tliat the Ministers of the French Congregation who shall officiate next Sunday be ordered to Read Publickly the said Opinion and Admonition jmmediately

480 PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

after Divine Service in the forenoon, whicli is submitted to your Excellency by

Your Excellency s most obedient humble Servants -- By order of the Committe

Cadwallader Golden Chairman. Read and approved & ordered accordingly.

BAPTISTS.

To His Excellency William Burnet Esquire Cap* Generall

& Governof in chief of the province of New York &

New-Jersey and tlie Territories depending on them

in America And Vice Admirall of the same.

The humble peticon of Nicholas Eyers brewer a baptist

teaclier in the City of New York. Slieweth unto Yo*' Excellency that on the first tuesday of ffebry 1715 At a General quarter sessions of the peace held at the city of New York the hired house of Yo'' peticoner scituate in the broad street of tliis City between the house of Jolm Michel Eyers and M"" John Spratt was registred for an anabaptist meeting house within this City. That the peticoner has it certifyed under the liands of sixteen inhabitants of good faith and credit tlmt he liad been a public preacher to a baptist congregacon within this City for four years and some of them for less.