three or four men may goe for EDgland and lay their case before the Queen, they say likewise there are a great many things promised them, clothing, household Goods, working Tools web they desire to have. They say furtjier tlieir people dye for want of care and proper remedyes and desire money to subsist themselves and lastly they say that M^" Cast told them he'd make them slaves, and therefore desire his Excellency to appoint another in his room.

Whilst his Excellency was talking with the Deputy s he received Information tliat there was a great body of men in arms on the other side of the Brook, and having by that time a reinforcement of seventy men more, he marched the detachment immediately and passed the Brook, the Palatines were run home to their houses, His Excellency marched to the first Village and ordered them to bring in all their arms, which tliey did Immediately except a few ; He could go no further that night but the next moniing march'd to y® other tliree Villages, on the same side of the River and disarmed them all, and then returning to M^ Levingston sent orders to the Villages on the other side to bring in their arms that day to the Store house to be transported to him, which I believe they have done, if they refused liis Excellency in case of necessity had sloops ready to transport the Detachment thither.

Its hardly credible that men wlio reap so great a benefit as they doe by these people, not only by the consurapdon of their Provision, but by the increase of Strength, should yet be so malicious to possess them with notions so injurious to tliemselves and prejudicial to Her Majesty's Interest, but yet it is so, and I believe almost the only cause of tlieir present discontents, the land they live on is generally good, producing So great a crop that those Farmers and men of skill in husbandry who are honest enougli to wish success to these people's labeui-s wonder liow they could be wrought upon to complain of it, but great pains have been taken to magnify the goodness of that at Scb.ohary above this, and to persuade tliem that if they onc<j settle where they are, there is no prospect of their ever removeing, but if they refuse to doe that and insist on their l>eing planted ou the other the Gov must give way t© it, and by these