M^ Baly made a prayer, which being concluded, one Robbert Basset read a Sermon from a printed Book composed & published by an English Minister in England. After the reading M*" Baly made another prayer and they sung a Psalm and seperated. In tlie evening we were invited to sapper to Robbert Basset's, and liaviug taken our leave we went to sleep at John Lords house : neither he nor any of the members of Ms family came home this night, w^hich much surprised us.

A° 1657. 1st January. He came home an hour after daybreak. He said he remained abroad in order that we may have more room. We requested him to have tlie drum beaten forthwith to get tlie people together ; to which he said, he had given orders to beat the drum, and the majority of the luliabitants being assembled we communicated to them the object of our mission, and that the H^ Director general of N. Netlierland had from the six persons named by them elected three as Magistrates for Oostdorp viz. M"^ Newman, M*" Lord, & John Smith, and exliibited and read to them the commission granted to the Magistrates. After the reading was concluded, one Robert Basset requested to speak a word, which being allowed, he said there was one among the Magistrates who was unfit to fill the place j that notwithstanding he should respect him as a Magistrate so long as he resided there, as he was selected by the Director General. Thereupon we should have demanded of him who that was and wherein his unfitness consisted ; but in order not to make any trouble about him nor to separate leaving the business unfinished and other considerations, we merely answered that he had the nomination of the whole town and was elect-