It is impossible to take notice of all the Absurdities, Untruths, Mistakes, Shifts, Evasions and things foreign to the purpose, with the other Defects and Imperfections which are obvious in the Answer made by Mr. Moulinars and tlie rest of his Consistory to the Petition presented to his Excellency and the honourable Council of this Province, by several Heads of families of our Church. Whoever would undertake to answer every thing exactly which that long Writing containeth, must compose a large Volume, and in so doing, would only draw this matter needlessly into length, which is perliaps the design of the Answerers. For which Reason it will be sufficient to make some pni-ticular observations.

The 1st, and principal is. That all what they alledge in favour of their Rights and extraordinary Priviledges, and all that they object against me for to blacken me, and misrepresent me to his Excellency and the Council, all the venomous strokes scattered here and there in their Answer • all this, I say, is nothing to the purpose, and doth not in the least relate to tlie true Point in dispute between us ; all this doth in no sort justify their irregular and unjust Proceeding against me, nor shew how they have been sufficiently authorized, or what Reason and lawful Power they had to turn me out of my office, and to refuse to pay me

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my Salary. In short, all this doth not at all, or very little con cern tlie Petition presented by the heads ot Families to the Governour in Council, nor the acts of Opposition and Protestation annexed to it ; nor even that invidious Act wliich those Gentlemen passed in the Consistory against me, on the 2Utli of September last.