and Com'ander in Cheife of the saide Province, according to this our Commic'on and the power heareby given to you and according to the Lawes and Constitutions made or confirmed, or to be made or Confirmed, by us which you the saide Governor are yourself also to observe and follow as [to] your duty & office doth appertaine As also to observe and fullfill all such orders as shall be made and sent you by [us] or the Committee for the time being under ус publique Seal of the saide Province and we doe also Commissionate and Impower you ye saide Ieremiah Basse' to nominate Constitute and appoint by Commic'on under your hand and the seale of the Province a Deputy Governor under you to serve in ye saide Province dureing your nessesary absence theare from and no longer he being obliged to observe and [p'forme]' all sch orders as shall be made & sent under publique seale by us [or] ye Committee for ye time being & Governing according to ye Lawes [& Constitut"] of ye saide Province. Given in London under our hands & ye publique seale of ye said Province of West New Iersey this eighteenth of May: Anno Dom: 1697 Annoq Domini Nostri Gulielmi Reg: Tertii none &c. THO: LANE. 1 Although the draft from which this is printed is on parchment, and signed by Sir Thomas Lane it is not probable, the commission sent to America. That does not appear to have been executed before July 15th, 1697. Moreover, this document after being executed, seems to have been submitted to some one having authority to revise it, and hence the interlineations and alterations, and it was found in private hands in England. At the place indicated above, the following words were erased "the Kings Commic'ioners of the Counsell of Trade or the Commic'ioners of ye Customs or by us."-ED. 2 "fullfill" erased. Agreement Signed by the Governor, Council and Members of the House of Representatives of West Jersey, binding themselves to uphold, to the utmost of their power, the authority of the King as against all his enemies. [From P. R. O. B. T. Proprieties, Vol. B 19.] WHEREAS there has been a horrid and detestable Conspiracy formed and Carried on by Papists, and other wicked & Traitorous Persons, for assassinating his Majest's Royall Person in order to Encourage an Invation from France on England, to subvert our Religion, Laws and Liberty; We whose names are hereunto Subscribed, do heartily, sincerely and solemnly profess, Testify and Declare, that his present Majesty King William's Rightfull and Lawfull King of the Realms of England, Scotland and Ireland, and that neither the late King James, nor the pretended Prince of Wales, nor any other Person hath any Right whatsoever to the same; And we do mutually promise and Engage to Stand by and assist each other to the utmost of our Power in the Support and defence of his Majtys most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James, and all his Adherents, and in case his Majesty come to any violent or untimely death (which God forbid), We do hereby further freely and unanimously oblige ourselves to unite, associate & Stand by each other in revenging the Same upon his Enemys & Their Adherents, and in Supporting and defending the Succession of The Crown, according to an Act made in the 1st year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary; Entituled an Act declaring the Rights and Libertys of the subjects and settling the Succession of the Crown Subscribed at Burlington May the 20th 1697 Members of ye House of Representatives Address of the Governor and Council of West Jersey to the King, on his escape from the attempts of assassins. [From P. R. O. B. T. Proprieties, Vol. 2, B. 19, No. 3.1 THE HUMBLE addresse of your Majesties most Loyall Subjects, The Governor & Council of your Majesties Province of West New Jersie in America. May 30th 1697. May it please yo" most Excellent Majestie WITH hearts full of joy we blesse the Divine goodnesse in the delivery of your Majesties most Sacred Person (and in it our Religion, our Rights, our Liberties) from the attempts of most barbarous Assassins. We do assure your Majestie that with ye same cheer fullnesse we shall be allways most ready to Justify our Loyalty agreeable to ye Association we have entered into. Long and happy be yo' Majesties Raign over us, And may all devices against your Sacred life and Governm be confounded and brought to nought So prayeth May it please your Majesty yo' Majesties Most humble & most obedient Subjects and Servants AND: HAMILTON G JOHN TATHAM THO: REVELL NATH: WESTLAND Agreement of the Quaker Members of the House of Representatives of West Jersey, to uphold the interests of the King. [From P. R. O. B. T.. Proprieties, Vol. (2) B 19, No. 4.] WEE the Subscribers to this present Instrument (being vnder ye Denomination of Quakers) haveing vnderstood, that a Horrid Plott, and Conspiracy, hath been contrived against ye person and Government of King William ye third, over England &c: which it hath pleased God, graciously to prevent; by a timely Discovery thereof: as appears at large, by an Act of Parliament presented to vs at this time by our Governor, Andrew Hamilton: Recommending it as propper, for us after ye example of England &c: to Subscribe, ye form an association in that Act Contained.' Or at least; that such of us whose Religiouse Principles to This association was framed in Parliament in May 1696; the plot referred to having been frustrated a few months previously. Tindal says: "The association was carried from the Houses of Parliament over all England, and was signed by all sorts of people, very few only excepted."-ED. 1 will not suffer us to Subscribe in manner and form therein Expressed; Should Answer ye Intent of it, by Subscribeing to a Declaration, of our fidelity, and Loyalty, to ye King and Government as now Established, which we willingly, and Chearfully doe in manner following viz: WEE doe Sollemnly Promise and Declare, in ye presence of God, ye witness of ye truth of what we say That we will alwayes be ffaithfull to King William and vse all such Endeavors, as we can for ye preservation and Safety of his person and Government, and doe Utterly Abhorr, and Detest, all Traiterouse and Dissloyall practices, against our King and Government, and are thankfull to God, for his preservations Continued over his person; and y Realmes he Rules which we pray God long to Continue in peace and Safety. SAMLL JENINGS Speak'. FRANCIS DAVENPORT MAHLON STACY DANIEL MILLS THO: GARDINER THOMAS THACKERY JOHN ADAMS THOMAS RAPER ? JOSHUA HUMPHRIS JOHN SCOTT HENRY CALLINGOR HANANIAH GAM JOSEPH BROWNE WILLIAM COOPER PETER FRETTWELL JONA BEERE BENJ WHEATE JOHN THOMPSON ARCHEBELL MICHELL GEORGE DEACON JOHN HUGG MATHEW MEDCALFE The mark of |