Unto Your Excellency and the honourable Council That whereas there has been aloted to the use of the Church & Minester five hundred acres of Land upon proviso that tlie said Minester do resid and dwel with the Inhabitants at the place aforesaid and there do and perform the office and Duty of a Minester Now the present Minester utterly refusing to Comply with the Said proviso "and not having resided with the Said Inhabitants for above the Space of Nine years last past whereby they have been destitute of any Spiritual assistance from him, The said Inliabitants do therefore in most humble and submissive manner pray that the Sume of four hundred acres of Land (part ol tlie above mentioned five hundred) may be settled upon some other Minister or Teacher that shall undertake to Administer to the said Inhabitants as becomes a good and faithful Pastor and that the said four hundred acres of Land as also the other of the said five hundred acres may be setled upon the

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Church and Minester that it may not be in his power or of any Incumbet to Ahenate or Convert tlie Same to any otlier use then as aforesaid And your Petitioners herein relieved as to Your Excellency's Wisdom may apper fit they as in Duty bound will ever pray.

8 October 1718. Eead & referred and ordered that the Petitioners do serve M^" Cockerill with a coppy of this Petition.

[No Report seems to have been made on this Petition. Ed.]