I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordships most most obedient and humble servant,

Rt Hon>le Earl of Shelburne H. Moore.

*,* In Counc. Min. xxv. There is an entry substantially of the same purport as the above, dated 10 June 1767; & in vol. xxix , 250 will be found a Royal order dated 26 June 1767, disallowing an act passed by the New York Legislature in 1766 erecting the lands on the west of Connecticut River into the County of Cumberland.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 609

ORDER OF THE KING IN COUNCIL

FORBIDDING THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK TO MAKE GRANTS OF ANY LANDS ALREADY PATENTED BY NEW HAMPSHIRE,

[Council Minutes vol. xxvi.] At the Court at St Jame's the 24th day of July 1767. PRESENT.

Tue Kine's most Excettent Masesry. Archbishop of Canterbury Ear] of Shelburne.

Lord Chancellor. Viscount Falmouth. Duke of Queensbury Viscount Barrington. Duke of Ancaster. Viscount Clare

Lord Chamberlain. Bishop of London Earl of Litchfield. M' Secretary Conway. Ear] of Bristol Hans Stanley Esquire

Wuereas there was this day read at the Board, a Report from the Right Honoble the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation affairs, dated the 30 of last month in the words following vizt

" Your Majesty having been pleased to refer unto this Com- "mittee the humble Petition of the Incorporated Society for "the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Setting "forth among other things, that Benning Wentworth Esquire "¢ Governor of New Hampshire in New England, made several "Grants of Large Tracts of Land lying on the West side of " Connecticut River, which were incorporated into above one " hundred Townships, end several shares were reserved in each "of the said Grants to the Petitioners for a Glebe for the Church "of England, and for the benefit of a School: That the Govern- «¢ment of New York having claimed the said Lands and the " Jurisdiction thereof, granted great part of those Lands without "reserving any shares for the abovementioned Publick Uses: " And therefore the Petitioners Pray that the Grants made by " the Government of New Hampshire may be ratified and con- "firmed, or such order made thereupon as to your Majesty " should seem meet--and your Majesty having been likewise "pleased to refer unto this Committee the humble Petition of _