PAPERS RELATING TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY. 92P

maintaine him by Subscription untill such times as jom Excellency shall think fitt to haue the Parishes in the County otherwise divided which are at present so uery inconuenient that not halfe of the People can haue the benefitt of the Ministry your Excellency will find by the return of the Justices that our diuident of the late rate ought not to haue been more than<£7. 5. Q^ & theuostry haue layd <£15: 10^ upon us & there being X7: 10 Layd on the Parish besides the Ministers rate & the Constables allowance for Leauyyig the same under the name of incidental Charges & that some by the inequality of the diuision falling wholly upon us we therefore most humbly Implore your Excellency to direct that we may pay no more at this time than £8 : & for the future only our Equall diuident and as in duty bound your Excellencys Petitioners shall Ever Pray &c

John Drake Joseph drake Will Chadderton.

PETITION OF REV» M^ BONDET OF NEW ROCHELLE.

[Translated from the French.]

To His Excellency Milord Cornbury Governor & Commander in Chief. My Lord,

I most humbly pray your Excell : to be pleased to take cognizance of the petitioners condition,

I am a french Refugee Minister, incorporated into the body of the Ministry of the Anglican Church ; I removed about fifteen years ago into Ncav England with a company of poor refugees to whom Lands were granted for their settlement, and to provide for my subsistance I was allowed one hundred and five pieces per annum from the funds of the corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel among tlie Savages. I performed that duty during nine years with a success approved and attested by those who presided over the affairs of tliat Province.