thus disposed, what good effect may be expected, we are not able to conceive. We beg your Excellency's patience, while we express our most grateful sense of his Majesty's gracious and paternal care of the Church of England, as by Law Established in his frequent Declara. tions from his Throne, and particularly in sending one of his first com mands into this Province for the due execution of those laws that have been made for her support; and we are truly sensible of your Excellency's early diligence in communicating those commands to such as are under your Excellency's administration and are entrusted with the execution of those laws, on the due observance whereof, depends not only the maintenance of our Rector, but of all the Ministers of the Church of England established by law within this Province. And therefore, we doubt not but your Excellency will take effectual care, that the just dues and maintenance of our Minister may be paid pursuant to the laws and his Majesty's royal commands, and that the Established Church may be preserved in all her other religious rights and privileges, according to law. All which is nevertheless, humbly submitted to your Excellency's consideration, by may it please your Excellency, your most dutiful humble servants. WM. VESEY, Rector. Compared and examined with the original by us. WILL VESEY, MAY BICKLEY, THO. CLARKE, JNO. MOORE, Junr.. Jos. READE, SIM SOUMAINE, ALEX. MOORE, AND. LORAN, Jos. WRIGHT, CORNELIUS LODGE, GEORGE COCKE, RICH. WILLET, HENRY VERNON, WILL ANDERSON, NATHNL. MARSTON, Petr. BarberIE, THO. NOXON, JNO. WALTER, ROBT. ELLISTON, Vestrymen. CITY OF NEW-York, ss. At a meeting of the Justices and Vestry Men at the City Hall of the said City on Friday the fourth day of February Anno Dom. 1714. John Johnston. David Jamison. Johans. Janson. Jacobus Kip. Jacobus Bayard. Abraham Wendell. Isaac Decker. Henry Vanderspiegel. John Roosevelt. Oliver Teller. Gerret Keteltas. Jacob Bennet. John Meyer. The Reverend Mr. Talbott, Mr. Halliday, and the Church Wardens of Trinity Church, having signified to this Board that they had something to offer were accordingly called in, and thereupon they communicated a letter from the Bishop of London to Mr. Poyer, and a scheme for supplying Trinity Church during Mr. Vesey's absence, and left a copy of the said letter and also of the said scheme, which letter was in the following words, vizt. Sr. Mr Vesey hath desired me to write to some of our Brethren in the Neighbourhood of New York and Intreat them to take care of his Church during his necessary absence from it. I do accordingly recommend the supply of the Church of New York to yourself, Mr. Talbot, Mr. Halliday, Mr. Thomas Mr. McKouse & Mr. Bartow, and I do desire upon the communication of this to them that you would agree among yourselves how to supply it in the best and most convenient manner. You will acquaint the Church Wardens of Trinity Church and of the City of New York wth the contents hereof, that this affair may be managed without any disturbance. I pray God to bless you and the rest of our Brethren in the discharge of your office, and remain Sr. Your most assured friend and BrotherJohn London-Summerset House Septr. 6th, 1714. To the Reverend Mr. Poyer, Rector of Jamaica in Long Island, in the province of New York. It is the opinion of this Board that the Warrant for the last Quarters Salary to Mr. Vesey be not signed by the Justices till further order, by reason of his not officiating and having left his cure without liberty, and Ordered that the Board write a letter to the Bishop of London in answer to the foregoing letter, so as to return the thanks of this Board to his Lordship for his care of the Church in this City. Order'd that all warrants for the future be signed as the Law directs and not otherwise, pursuant to two acts of the Generall Assembly of this Province, one entitled an act for the setling a Ministry and raising a maintenance for them in the City of New York, and also one other entitled an act for the better Establishment of the Maintenance for the Minister of the City of New York. It is hereby ordered that the sum of four hundred Pounds current money of New York be assessed, Levyed, collected, and paid by the freeholders Residents and Inhabitants of the said City for the maintenance of the Minister and poor of the said City, from the second tuesday in January last to the second Monday in January next ensuing, and that the same be paid into the hands of the Church Wardens of the said City on or before the five and twentieth day of March next ensuing, the date hereof, and for the more effectual raising of the said sum of four hundred pounds for the Minister and poor aforesaid, It is hereby ordered that Mr. Vanderspiegel and Mr. Roosevelt for the Eastward, Mr. Teller and Mr. Clopper for the Dockward, Mr. Rutgers and Mr. Myor for the southward, Mr. Lodge and Mr. Ketletas for the Westward, Mr. Bennet and Mr. Buckenhoeven for the Northward, and Alderman De Riemer for the outward, doe goe through the respective wards aforesaid and make an estimate of the estates of all and every the freeholders Residents and Inhabitants of this City, and make Rolls thereof, and compleat the same on or before the twelfth Instant in order to be examined, that the Justices may issue their warrants for collecting the same accordingly. CITY OF NEW YORK, ss. At a meeting of the Justices and Vestrymen at the City Hall of the said City, on the 16th of Dec., 1715, His Excellency the Governors Letter and his Majestys Most Gracious Letter hereafter following were read, and it being put to the vote whether this Board should immediately proceed to the payment of the money mentioned in his Majesty's letter, or first examine into the truth of the suggestions of Mr. Veseys Petition, on which his Majesty's Lre was granted. It is the opinion of this Board (Mr. Cornelius Lodge only excepted) that they first examine into the truth of those suggestions of Mr. Vesey's petition upon which the said Petition was granted, and that Mr. Vesey be pleased to acquaint this Board of those affairs of the Church that called him home, and that he be forthwith served with a copy hereof. Pr order of the Justices and vestrymen F. Mr. Robinson delivered a List of Patents for pews in Trinity Church, sold by the Church Wardens for the time being, since the tenth of June, 1724, to the twelfth of June, 1729, which was ordered to be entered in the Churche's Book, and is as followeth (vizt.): List of patents delivered for pews sold at vendue 11th June, 1724, £ s. d. £ s. d. 7. 00 00 whole do 96 17 June 1724 43 00 10 00 00 00 00 33 00 00 |