It is also well known to all that M^" Roosenboom hath addressed a petition on tlmt subject to the Hon'j'® Heer General abovenamed, to be favored therein ; winch petition had no result, but the Heer Laval being come up, said in full Court in date the 7'*' November 1C72 he had authority as to Roosenboom's Petition -- Let tlie Dead buiy their Dead ; for with wliat free conscience can your Precentor- go and act for the Lutherans, for they have more ceremonies than tlie Reformed. Whereupon at that time he had no more to say, and it was as well

Wherefore }our Petitioners for aforesaid reasons approach

1 Literal!}', <' The person sent around with invitations to a funeral"; a custom still in practice in some of the ohier settlements of this State. We render the word, << Sexton," beinp the nearest approach we can find to the original.

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your Honour requesting most humbly that they may enjoy what they have been granted, and as Your Petitioners Bretliren at N. Orange enjoy the same, that tliey furtlier may bury their dead without notifying M^ Roosenboom, but employ their own Sexton and no one else. Wliereupon they expect a favorable answer Your Honors

Affectionate Subjects

Bernhardus Anthony V. D. M.

Jan Heinderik Bruyks

JocHEM Backer

Hans Hendricksen.

DOMINE BERNARDUS ARENSIUS HIS PASSE.

[N. Y. General Entries, IV.]

Permitt and Suffer the Bearer hereof, Domine Bernardus Arensius, to Passe from hence to Albany with his Necessaryes in the Sloope whereof Claes Tysen is Master, and to Officiate there as Pastor of the Augustine or Lutheran Congregation, as formerly under the English Government, witliout any manner of Lett, hindrance or molestacon whatsoever Given under my hand and Scale in New Yorke, the Gth day of November 1674.