We do assure your Majestie that with ye same cheerfullnesse 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 y° 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, to ye form an association in that Act Contained.' Or at least; that such of us whose Religiouse Principles 1 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. 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 ye 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 TAYLOR JOHN ADAMS WILLIAM COOPER JONA BEERE BENJ WHEATE JOHN THOMPSON WILLIAM PATE ? WILLIAM WOOD GEORGE DEACON JOHN HUGG MATHEW MEDCALFE JOHN WOOLSTON The marke of SAMLL WADE JOHN HUGG Jo W HALL Memorial of the Proprietors of East and West Jersey, asking for the approval of the appointment of Jeremiah Basse, as Governor of those Provinces. [From P. R. O. B. T., Vol. 1, A 44.] Mem! of ye Props of E & West New Jerseys, signi fying their having nominated Mr Jeremiah Bass to be Gov" of those Provinces, & desiring his Maty's approbation TO THE R HONBLE THE LORDS COMMRS OF TRADE AND PLANTA'CONS WHEREAS by a late Act of Parliament all Govern's to be Chosen by Propriet's of Lands within His Majes Dominions and Territoryes in America are to be approved of by His Majesty And the Proprietors of the Provinces of East and West Jersey in America being Satisfyed in the Loyalty of Mr Jeremiah Basse to the Crowne; his affec'on to the present Government, Experience in the Affaires of the Said Provinces, and abillity for public Employment. Have Chosen and appointed the Said Jeremiah Basse to be Govern of the Said Provinces. The said Proprietors doe therefore humbly recommend the Said Basse to yo' Lordships in order to have his Majes approbac'on and pray that the Said Basse may be approved of for Governour of the Said Provinces. THO LANE THO: COOPER Letter from Lords Commissioners of Trade to Jeremiah Basse, relating to the necessity for his giving security before being appointed Deputy Governor. From P. R. O. B. T. Proprieties, Vol. 25, p. 82.1 To M JEREMIAH BASS S The Lords Com'issioners of the Council of Trade have commanded me to acquaint you that they Judge it expedient, that the Security which is required for the Governors of Proprieties, be taken here before they present to his Majesty or the Lords Justices, the names of any persons for those Governments. That you may thereupon take your own measures for the Expediting of what is to be done with relation to your nomination to the Government of New Jersey & I am W: P: 8 June 1697. From Jeremiah Basse to Secretary Popple. [From P. R. O. B. T., Vol. 1, A 48.] Letter from Mr Jerem: Basse about Pirates and Piracies [and the Security demanded of him as Governor of New Jersey.] London 15 July 1697 SR As I always believe itt to be my duty so itt shall be my constant endeavor to Com'unicate to you any thinge that I beleive may conduce to the honor or interest of his Most Excellent Majesty or of this nation. & I cannot but hope that by a favorable construction of my first attempt in this kind you will embolden me to Continue my writeinge to you when It may be I may have somethinge of greater Consequence to Offer to your Consideration. You cannot be unsensible of the dishonnor as well as damage that this nation sustaines by the increasinge of Piracies under the banner of England in any part of the World. And as the perticuler depredations of Avery on the coast of India & Arabia togeather with the ill efects thereof hath come under your Coynisance so I beleive you have not been uninformed of the increasinge of Pyrates in those coastes ocationed by the great expectations of Riches to be obtained theare & itt may be by the too much Connivance of those in whose power itt may have been to have suppressed them; the sundry Plantations boath oppon the Maine & in the Islands of America haveinge not a little contributed to the increasinge of this trade sundry vessels suspected to be bound out on this designe haveing in my time sayled from one or another province on the Continent leavinge some of them Wives and families as pledges of their returne behind them & I am advised that four or five vessels are expected to returne with in these few months who have one board men appertaineinge to the Provinces of New England New Yorke the Jersies &c. & they will be emboldened thearto by the good entertainement that they have formerly met withal in some of these provinces & their ignorance at preasant of any thinge that may make them Jealeous of being worse entertained now unless any new orders concerninge them to the respective Governors should have reached their eares Which If they have Obtained they will endeavor to prevent the force of by runninge their vessels into some unfrequented Port & thence dispersing themselves wheare their inclinations lead them to believe they may be most secure in which places itt may be they will Abide till by extravagance haveinge ex |