means it is that tliey are arrived at this pitch of disobedience which I hope will wear off now they are disarmed of their Firelocks, the power by which they hoped to force a comphance to their unreasonable humour.

His Excellency has published a Declaration revoking all military Commissions and putting tliem entirely under the command of their overseers and Directors, as the Queen's hired Serves and all tlie good people amongst them who have been merely misled and frightened by the turbulent to join in these tumults, are better satisfied with that rule of Government.

Whatsoever else they compiaine of I dare be bold to affirm, there are not many planters in the Province so happy, so healthful! and so well cloth'd as they, nor could it well be otherwise considering how well tliey have been used, tliey have by their own ciioice three tlesh and four flower days a week, a pound of beef a liead or equivalent in pork and pease, as long as they lik'd them besides tliree quarters of a pound of the finest or a poimd of a courser sort, of bread, which they please, and as good Beer as any man in the Province drinks of at his Table, of tiow" they have a pound a head ; with bread and beer ; there is not one of their houses that is not hung round with Provisions and as to their Clothing every one has had of Shoes, Stockins, Kerseys, Shi!s;gs, and otlier sort of woollen, such a quantity last Winter as tlieir occasions required, and now again this summer a suiiicitnt quantity of iinneu, the remainder is kept for their use to supply them as tlity want, which by sucli management will goe twice as far as by making one general distribution of the whole ; of Tools they have had as many as they want, and a great miiiiy more liave been made for them here, as particularly two hundred barking irons ; as to their dying indeed, many did at their first coming, tho' none for want of care or proper applications, but by diseases contracted on board, since they liave been jjlanted in the comitry they have had as good a share of health as any people in the world, but all sickness was likewise provided against there by Doctors & medicines, the want of any thing I am sure is no cause of their turbulent behaviour, whatever the care and plenty they have Lived in is.