JVth:i]nd Vi'': The Manor of Fordham before it was sold, was under M' Abel Hardenbrooks management, with Respect to t'le Collecting the Rents, wliat his tmoluments w'ere, he knows best; tlie Church received little better than one huntlred Pounds per annum lor all the Rents; it was therefore sold, the greatest Part of the Money is invested in real Securities; -- the Remainder is out on good personal Securities; -- the Income n )W is more than five hiuidred Pounds per Annum; -- the Consistory have been alwa) s watchful to j>urchase real Estates, and have bid tor several, but could not purchase any as yet, at what they conceived the Value ; neitlier the Complainants, nor their Party, have suffered on t'lis account. The Income of the Estate left to t!ie Cliurcli by M' llarperding, has been applied agreable to tlie Intention of tlie Testator, and the Revenues of that Estate are anniially increasing.

The VP'': Aiticle alledges, that catechising in the Dutch Language was ftsrbid, by one of the Elders, as also by M'' Laidlie ; tills is not true, and il it was, the Complainants must know, that no one Member of our Consistoiy has a right to Ibrbid any Thing. M' Le}de«ker never was ap. pointed by the Consistory to catechise in our Congregation, and is therefore, not qualilied ; tho' one Adrian Van der Sman, was so appijinted ; but on find ng Vli.Mi a man of a very imnidral Behaviour, having forged tie Han<l Writing of the Reverend M"" Ritzema and others, wrote and subscribed Leiters directed to t>e Synod of North