will be spoken to afterwards Pam. In Page 25 he moves us an Objection as made by us about the Lawfulness of Coll. Fletchers Commission and this he returns over into an Asserting the Kings Right in the Militia Ans 1. As to Their Majesties right in the Militia it hath been owned and that he may grant Commissions accordingly is not to be doubted But this is not the difficulty but whether this Commission do reach any other Militia than what the Laws of the Realm do constitute and this the Pamphlet in words at least yields in our sence for in Page 29. thus he saith This Commission is therefore a Lawful Commission being founded upon the Antient and standing Laws of the Realm If then there be an Inseperable Connection between this Commission and the standing Laws of the Realm and it be founded on them and that Act of 13 14 of Charles II. be such a standing Law then this Commission is measured and limited by that Law which extent of it was never denyed that we know of But 2. If they will extend it to a Militia of another Constitution Viz. The Corporation Constitution then there is matter of Law in it not only to be disputed but to be tryed or at least to be inquired of Their Majesties whether it be Lawful or no in that Extent 3. Their Majesties pleasure may be sought even as to that which the said Act if applyed would take out of our Constitution of the Militia wherein many things may be and we hope are said before them 4. If men that have neither 50 Pound Starling Per. Annum nor 600 Starl in Money or Goods as most with us are such shall refuse the duty of a Souldier in the standing Militia what Law that this Commission is dependant on will condemn them for so doing and this as has been hinted will be our case if the Colony Militia so to call it which is the Kings too in a sence be disolved but of this we gave an account before yet could not well omit this further notice of it Pam. In Page 31. he reflects on the Government as Severe and Sharp Upon any disacknowledgment of our disputable Authority How Bragg and Peremptory should we have been if this Commission in terminis had been given to us Certainly Fire and Faggot or the Noose of an Halter had been good enough for any one that should have offered to oppose it c. Ans 1. Himself sayes that Male contents never want Complaints and Commends a throughness in Government Page 54. p. 58. 2. It is the general complaint that Connecticut Government is too Mild and possible those that know it best will laugh most at this Imagination of Fire and Faggot and the noose of an Halter What error is in Connecticut in these things lies on the other hand Pam. In 31 and 32 Page he speakes of Greedy catching at the Kings Letter of 3. of March last Ans This Their Majesties Letter was very Graciously sent and we hope thankfully and dutifully received and obeyed by us and he needed not speak so of it as Greedily catching but we know to whom that Letter hath been an Eye sore Pam. In Pag. 32 33 34. he charges Ingratitude to Their Majesties on so hard that it is intolerable It was an old Saying Say I am Ingrateful and say any thing but the best of it is he is no fit Judge of any thing concerning Connecticut who is thus Fire hot against us with Rage and we have Their Majesties and moderate Persons to judge herein we acknowledg and wish we could do it better Their Majesties kindness to us and were it not transcendent as the Sky is above the Earth to this mans Spirit we were very Miserable But whether he be within bounds of truth Sobriety or Charity let any one Judge when he saith Shall we requite Love with Hatred Tender Bowels with Malignanty for what else can our behaviour signify but a Malignant Spirit and Inveterat Hatred against the King as King and who ever comes from him as such We have sufficiently declared our Affections to the King and what we should have done if we had Him in our Hands we should soon Rid the World of Kings if we had them in our Power Remember Hazael Is thy Servant a Dog sayes he that he should do this great i. e. this abominable thing Yea but when Temptation and Oppertunity met together he did it notwithstanding and verily so should we Ans This is such a Charge as shows the Pamphleters Spirit in Lively and yet Blackest Colours To take the Altitude of this Promontory this Charge or Surmise Let it be considered 1. That to Imagine the Death of the King is by Law High Treason 2. To Imagine the Death of Kings in General is yet higher or highest Treason 3. That such Imaginings are Sins of the most heinous nature before God 4. That such a People so Spirited are justly to be abhorred of all man-kind Wherefore to Tax a Colony with such Treasons and Impiety to render them an abhorance to all men is so abhorredly Injurious to them That if Cerberus had been brought to Bark at us it is not imaginable he could more Hellishly have performed this task Let Leviticus 19.16 Be here again remembred Thou shalt not walk about with Tales among thy People Thou shalt not stand against the Blood of thy Neighbour I am the Lord. We will set against it the mind of Excellent Owen in his Book of the Dispenssing of the Holy Spirit Fol 517. Where Truth is not universally Observed according to the utmost watchfulness of Sincerity and Love there all other Marks and Tokens of the Image of God in any Persons are not only Sulied but defaced and the Representation of Satan is most prevalent Pam. In Page 34 he demands an Example of us who so ingratful who so disobedient as we c. Ans Supposing us to be such as he just afore affirms us to be we think none are like us or should be so nor do we know any like him for misusing the Kings Subjects in such an horrid degree 2. But if the meaning be who ever did Address a King before they obeyed an Order they had to inquire further on which only is pertinent here as we have done Examples in a greater Latitude then that abound every where For one let Dan. 2.24 25. Compared with the 13 14 15 16. Verses be seen Scores might easily be produced that have acceptably done this as well as we Pam. In Page 35 he thus Interogates us What do we indeed intend to fall off to the French c. Ans When men are thus forming and feeding Chymeraes it is endless and in vain to follow them we are not falling to the French nor from the King and yet for diversion we will tell him that his Counsel If we intend so to do let us speak out is very weak Pam. In Page 36 he urges us with the unseasonableness
great Pitty he did not keep Silence or speak better but if he follow not his own Advice it will impede others to follow it 2. It is not over modest to Emblaz on his own Advices thus as Pearles and how unworthy this his Composure is of such a Representation will not be difficult to an Impartial Reader to Judge of 3. To compare a Colony to harmful Swine is hard and yet harder when if we be so in respect of the Advice in 1689. in a manner all the People of New-England are so But such a whole Sale Champman that thus Barters all our Credite will deserve an Examination 4. Here begins what is carried on all along his Book namely a misapplication of Holy Scripture Whether this be not a great Prophaning the Holy Name of GOD is more meet for others to Consider than for us here to say What are his Advices to be Similized with the truths of the Gospel which are the Pearls there spoken of or is New-Englands not attending those things from him and others of his Opinion to be represented and made abominable by the fellest Persecution against the Gospel The Excesses of this kind and the Rating and Blemishing if not Curssing us by the mouth of Scripture are no small Scandal to us and we desire it may be well considered by the Pious Readers But this notwithstanding he proceeds to tell us Pamphlet That he hopes the case is not so desperate Answer We hope so too yet he all along gives us up as in the most desperate hopeless posture Pamphlet He then pleads it his duty Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart but shall Rebuke him c. Answer If any can reasonably judge that more of hatred and less of Love could be exerted by the Pamphleter than is to be found in him here they may believe he hath performed this as his duty But we may not dwell on every Particular Let it be noted that the Scripture here aleadged as a warrant to this Book is Levit 19.17 and the verse next before it Viz. 16. is Thou shalt not walk about with Tales among thy People thou shalt not stand against the Blood of thy Neighbour I am the Lord. Which seems as full and direct a prohibition of this his work as redily can be found in the Bible 2. Having thus Prefaced himself our Adviser or rather judge and Connecticut People the Objects of his pleasure in the Second place in Page 1st 2d He calls to a Serious Attention by Scriptures and Arguments no less weighty than his Occasion and use of them are Slighty as will appear we need not transcribe him Answer All the things he proposes that are true are Obvious and have been considered and needed not his Repetition 2. This like many other things is a Representing us to the World as Ignorant and Inconsiderate to an Excels But these Artifices every candid Reader will easily detect to whom we refer it to consider whether the following things in that Pamphlet be adapted to our Advice and consideration or to Breath out his own Spirit against us and to furnish ill minded men with matter and words to defame us to ensnare the more unwary into hard thoughts and many into groundless fears 3. His Prefacing thus ended in Page 3. He tells of the Commission of Leiutenancy over the Militia of this Colony His Excellency Sir William Phipps had and saith Pamphlet But upon notice hereof a General Assembly was called and met and there it was Resolved Not to submit to it nor to take any notice of Sir William Phipps in that capacity Ans 1. That His Excellency Sir William Phipps in His Commission had such a Leiutenancy Granted by Their Majesties and that the General Court met is true 2. That His Excellency did give an account of it and desired to know what Officers were in Commission and at length sent a Copy of that His Commission is also true 3. That the General Court at their meeting did send His Excellency an account what our intentions were as to Addressing Their Majesties in that behalf and that in the Interim the Military Officers were to good Satisfaction is also true 4. As to the Resolve of the Court here asserted We say these things 1. That it seems to be of absolute necessity to the ends of the Pamphlet to charge such Resolves and Acts of the Court upon them with Rising in Arms c. Else they could not make out Opposing Their Majesties and so lay a foundation large enough to Superstruct all the revilings and menaces that for the ends he had before him must be used 2. If such a Resolve were our Governour who was then in Court must put the Question which it did Resolve and this is an high Reflection on him 3. Since this Pamphlet was Licensed at York and things of this nature Asserted in it it behoved in Justice that he had Attested Copies or other Equivalent assurance of it ere he thus expose us 4. We love not such course words as to tell the World that what is so said is an absolute Lye and yet this we must say if we will say the truth for there was no such Question put nor no such Resolve made and we challenge them to prove it that say it and who that finds such things so certified and hears no other would doubt the truth of it or demurr to conclude us Direct Opposers of Their Majesties But we have more of this kind to come in yet wherein an amazing Impudent Falsifying is used against us 5. It will not heal the evil to make a Subterfuge of any inferences from other things as arguing such a Resolve for 't is matter of Fact that is here asserted and not brought in as a Consequence of what was matter of Fact for that had been but Opinion whereas this is Exhibited as a Court Act or Resolve Pam. He saies further At another General Assembly we resolve to to Address Their Majesties forthwith and yet no Address is made to Their Majesties Ans It is not true to say no Address is made we did forthwith with all possible diligence send our Address that we have no account of it is from other causes than our not sending It is a very sad thing thus openly to be rendred as meer dissemblers with Sir William and Their Majesties Especially but this is the measure that is mete us and surely Mr. Clarkson gave his Imprimatur on very fallible grounds to this Pam. After which Sir William Phipps making some further demands in the Spring 1693. we promised to pay him some Hundreds of Pounds and to take upon us the defence of the upper Towns upon the River belonging to the Massachusetts As if these things would Satisfy Their Majesties Commission and these things in Page 6. he calleth a Composition with Sir William Phipps which gives his meaning and what he would suggest and have believed in the World as to the Transactions between
well enough known 7. His Excellency nor Sir William ever went about forming such a Militia here by and according to the 3d. 4th 5th and 10th Articles or Paragraphs of the said Acts of Parliament therefore were not opposed in Executing their respective Leiutenancies according to the Acts referred to in their Commissions and Consequently not opposed in their Commissions rightly understood and applyed and as the Pamphlet argues for them 8. The Militia of Connecticut as now constituted by the General Court by vertue of the Charter and as our need requires consists of all Males from 16 to 60 years of Age some few as Majestrates Ministers c. only excepted be their Estates what they will These things being thus the Question is whether the Kings Militia constituted and to be Governed as by said Acts or the Corporation Militia of another constitution and Government and therefore so constituted because so to be Governed be the Object of the Leiutenantcy the disputes of the Pamphlet run for the latter but still wholly on grounds taken only from the former but that will not hold for what Their Majesties claime by Law that is by those Acts they furely Execute upon according to the same Law or Acts of Parliament 'T is an happy truth that all the People are Their Majesties yet are not all by Act of Parliament from 16 to 60 years of Age that is Males His standing Militia If this had come to practice here and His Excellency had called all from 16 to 60 to the duty of Souldiers and they had refused as not having Estates to Oblige them by the Laws his Commission is dependant on and must be exercised by and the Corporation Militia strictly so called had been severed there from what a poor posture had that been in when it may be the Colony would not have yielded an Hundred Souldiers to that part it may be not half an hundred But it may be said doth not the Commission say the Militia of Connecticut all the Forces c. And this answers all We say no For we know His Majesty Governs by the Laws of the Realm and this our Adversary not only yields us but makes it the Basis of all his Arguing in Page 23. where he saith In this case Rex praecipit Lex praecipit the Kings Commands and the Laws Commauds is all one So that by his own account the Laws Command and the Kings Command in the case are Mutual and Reciprocal and do expound each other that is the Statute of 13 13 and 14 of Charles II. do expound this Commission of Leiutenancy and all others of that kind and in the sence and under the Limitations of those Acts it is to be taken and no otherwise And this alone with the Consideration of the Constitution of Connecticut Militia at once over throws utterly his whole Hypothesis in the Pamphlet And he might have spared the labour of all his Sophistications in arguing and concluding as he doth from the one to the other when as not the same thing or a thing of the same Constitution is in both And here we must note his misrepresentation of those Statutes as intending a Militia which they do not by applying them directly to another kind of Militia as he doth evidently all along It is like he knew that they are but few Comparatively that Read those Laws and yet fewer of his Readers that know or will be informed what a different Militia from that Connecticut Militia is and so the Ambiguity of the word Militia would not be dicovered and so it must and would be concluded that if we hold any Militia it was the same in the Statutes this is no fair dealing in him His Majesty claimes His right according to those Laws and what is by Patent Granted to His Subjects and is of another Constitution we may be bold to hold that till we can enquire His Majesties right and pleasure to be otherwise and in this we claim not His Majesties Militia as it is distinguished from our Corporation Militia it is all His Majesties in Service In a word what is the Kings Militia so settled by the Laws of His Realm we never gave the least hindrance unto His Leiutenants in if they had clamed the Command of that and that only and had been refused some such Charges as now we are laden with might have had a colour whereas now they have none To a full management hereof many other things should and might be added but this may suffice to show that the Pamphlet by not distinguishing between Militia and Militia runs into all manner of confusion and chargeth us with claiming the Kings right when we claim it not but a distinct thing and not that neither but in Subjection to Their Majesties what of the Kings Militia is involved in the Corporations we know not till it be distinguished as the Law requires if these things be not clear to others they are so to us and will bear at least an enquiry in England before we be put on to what we are not clear in and this may be the better born with since as he said in Page 5th His Excellency offered to continue the Militia in the hands it was then in which shewed a good Satisfaction in the Military Commission Officers the odds of being under the Corporation or His Excellency till we could here from England needed not the Sharpness of this Pamphlet which hath nothing helped save to render us as bad as possible and beyond truth or peace And here we might end our answer but because of the long and bitter Harrangue that continues in that Book and some things that must be cleared we must attend it And at once we will insert the Courts Answer to Coll. Fletcher that all may see what it was and not take it in the disguises that are put on it and it shall be as it was Printed at York Viz. To His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Governour in Chief of Their Majesties Province of New-York c. IN Return to your Excellencies demands of the Millitia of us Their Majesties General Court of Their Colony of Connecticut we say That finding in your Excellencies Commission no Express Superseding of the Commission of the Millitia in our Charter nor Order to us from Their Majesties to Surender the same And being sensible of the great importance of this matter and finding it in several main things which do need a particular Explication and Settlement as we shall God willing manifest to Their Majesties cannot but conceive it our duty both with respect to Their Majesties Service and our own peace and preservation in this time of War to continue the Militia as formerly till by our Agent now sent for England we shall receive further Orders from Their Majesties And in obedience to Their Majesties Gracious Letter of March 3d. 1692. We shall be ready upon all just Occasions to yield Assistance to His Excellency Coll. Benjamin
Fletcher Esq His Majesties Captain General and Governour of New-York c. and to the Commander their in Chief for the time being for the defence of the said Province against the Common Enemy according to our ability and in proportion with our Neighbouring Colonies and Provinces although we have already been out about Five Thousand Pounds for the defending our Neighbours of Albany since the War began besides the loss of Lives And further this Court does see reason to grant the Sum of Six hundred Pounds in Country pay out of our Country Rate towards the Charge of maintaining the Garrison at Albany onwards of what shall be our proportion of that charge in Obedience to Their Majesties Letter of 3d of March last By Order of the Governour and General Court of Connecticut Signed by Iohn Allyn Secr. HARTFORD October 25th 1693. On the 27th of October 1693. was sent this Memorial following Excellent SIR WE have in our former to your Excellency tendred you Six hundred Pounds in Country pay out of our Rates towards the charge of maintaining the Garrison at Albany onwards of what shall be our proportion of that charge We desire your Excellencies answer whether that be acceptable to you But if you judge it more for Their Majesties Service to have men we shall raise about Fifty men to Assist in Garrisoning Albany who we shall raise and send forth with what speed we may to continue there till the Spring to the end of March or first of April next We Crave your Excellencies Answer who are Your Humble Servants the Governour and General Court of Connecticut By their Order signed Iohn Allyn Secr. HEre is what can be charged truly on our General Court and the Spirit of it is in that clause where it is said We cannot but conceive it our duty both with Respect to Their Majesties Service cur own Peace and preservation in this time of War to continue the Militia as formerly till by our Agent now sent for England we shall receive further Orders from Their Majesties And this is spoken only with respect to the Corporation Militia not at all with respect to a Militia Constituted as by the 13 and 14 of Charles II. which for distinction we call the Kings Militia and on the reasons there aleadged the full import of which is for Their Majesties special Audience and with a provision to do our duty as to aiding York and Albany And what does this amount to but our Courts sence Judgment or Opinion in the matter of their duty Let any man cooly Consider whether this be not justifiable whether this will bear all the Mountainous weights of Reproach which this wretched Pamphlet casts on us on this accout And had the Pamphleter dealt with any honesty he should have proved that for our Court thus to declare their sence is Opposing the King and what else he loads us withal and not publish Horrid Lyes of us and then argue from them We know that sins and vices are Immergent as well as Graces and Vertues Lyes evil Surmises misconstructions and the like will yield Misapplications of Scriptues and Laws and these then will yield a torrent of Infamy But had he derived only from truth it had been otherwise then now it is and better for him and us In Page 9 10 11. He tells us of two sorts of People among us Viz. The Deceivers and the Deceived and compares the best of these to the Rebels on Absoloms side and their case and danger like the Regicides and adviseth them to take the course of Peter who had denied his Lord and Master the other sort are desperate c. Ans 'T is to much to Transcribe it but the Reader that hath that Pamphlet may examine it 1. He is over what is matter of Fact as to the main of it and this and what follows for the Substance being only his own sence of the things fore mentioned we shall pass through them more briefly And we shall once for all desire the Candid Reader to take notice that all his loud Openings and Noise are upon a wrong scent for he pursues us as with-holders of the Kings Militia settled by Parliament when as but newly declared we meddle not with that but another thing only 2. It would and should make any one tremble to read such things such Comparisons made on such wrong grounds but we would know not only the words but the power of these men thus to Arraign Condemn and Execute as far as Pen and Imprimatur Malice can go Their Majesties Subjects and the People of God Surely if the double Fence of Sacred and Civil Laws had been at all regarded we had not been thus Broken in upon and devoured in some of our choisest Interests the Holy ninth Command in its several Branches by the things mentioned and to be mentioned is by the Pamphlet Violated Lyes Reproaches evil Surmises Misconstructions Misrepresentations and the like do Violate that Rule The fifth Command to Honour Superiours Equals Inferiours c. Requires the hiding real Blemishes not with Ham to see and deride were that the case with us much more it injoyns not to Invade our just Repute with Falshoods By the Civil Law we are Their Majesties Subjects and as such his Honour is in a degree concerned in ours and Sugestions against the Subjects ought to be made to the King not to the World to defame the Kings Subjects openly in the Face of His Enemies sorts with no Law or Policy nothing is to be done in terrour of the People the Kings Peace is to be kept by all the King hath a Judicature to Issue Controversies and our cause is at Caesars Judgment Seat where we ought to be judged who made this man a Censor over us But all these things notwithstanding to tear and worry us is what that wretched Tract seems designed to 3. What Colour is there that we are with Absoloms Rebels pursuing Their Majesties or with the Regicides about their work or have we denyed with Peter our Lord and Master 4. May we not for his thus Comparing us retort his own Interogations and say Consider how he by these carriages Elemishes Religion and Scandalizes the Gospel Hath he thus Learned Christ c. The Tables thus turned would stand the righter way 5. Our Gracious KING and QUEEN nor any of Their good Subjects we do believe do like a Phalaris with his Brazen Bull to Torment men in to Extremity which this Pamphlet is but too like unto 6. The Pamphlet goes on to tell of the Fountain of good Principles and what his are Page 12 to p. 21. We will give only the heads of them and his Inferences from them against Connecticut Pam. 1. That Allegiance to our Prince is a Morral and necessary Duty 2. That Religion Comprizeth both Tables of the Law 3. That the Second Table of the Law is like unto the First 4. That the Morral Law is not abolished by Christ 5. To abreviate
it That the King is next to God Supream upon Earth Chief Governour in all His Dominions Ans 1. The manner and end of Exhibiting these Principles is to Suggust that we in Connecticut are Heterodox in these points and so little distant from meer Infidels this perverse Insinuation we detest 2. We own and desire to live by these Principles though we are as yet so unhappy as not fully to understand our duty in the one point Controverted 3. Therefore all the pains taken in these 11 Pages may justly be called The New-labour-in-vain a washing a white man as if he were a black-more to make him white when as he never was other-wise Pam. But he infers on the first Principle that now it seems this Sound Doctrine will not be indured Page 15th Ans 1. When or wherein was the Doctrine of Allegiance to our Prince so Opposed or Punished among us as not to be indured The present contest turns not on that hinge whether we shall be Subject to Their Majesties but what is the true intent of this Commission this we may enquire without renouncing our Allegiance 2. Since the 40 years mentioned it is well known who Preached an Election Sermon on Rom. 13.7 Honour to whom Honour and how well he Prest Obedience to the Colony Government thence and it were well if some were still as willing to be minded of their duty to God and their Brethren as the body of this People are to be Subject to Their Majesties Pam. On the Second Principle Page 17. he sayes But we have seen that of late in Connecticut which if Abraham himself had been here would have made him say as once he did to Abimelech because I thought surely the Fear of God is not in this place Ans This is like the most of the Pamphlet a bitter Censure and Causless and we doubt not but he hath deeply wronged therein many a Son of Abraham Pam. On the Third he glances on the Pastors of the Churches and I may add then and not before will Religion too be sound and safe when Obedience due to Princes shall be thought to be a part of Piety and when the Pastors of the Church shall Train up the People by the Word of God to perform Obedience to them Aus The Emphasis seem to lie in the word then whether the meaning be not that it is not so now or as yet we refer but these Persons he is aware of and therefore comes so on as he may Retreat Pam. On the Fourth Principle thus That a Godly Rebel is a Scolecism a Prodigious Monster in Religion Ans Who this is spoken to and of is Obvious and what he bated the Reverend Pastors he gives in over weight to their Flocks and but that some Tongues are unruly Evils full of deadly Poison it would not have been thought that such Reflections should have been made on us Pam. On the Fifth If our Religion be so over grown to that pass that it teaches us to deny Kings and Majestrates c. Ans Is it not too much that our Civil and Military benifits have been so struck at by some but must our Profession of Religion be also prostituted to Contempt in this manner We profess no Religion that teaches to deny Kings and Majestrates but of this enough before Yet we would tell the Pamphleter that he is Suspected of other Principles such as aforded all the untruths and Ranchors of his Book and that Leven hath spoyled the use of these his Principles herein and however high his Credit hath run abroad and formerly we will here tell him that it is no good Principle for any to hold that a man may Lawfully Marry with his Deceased Wives natural Sister nor no good Practice to write a Book to justify one that hath so done which its said will be Printed this is contrary not only to the Current of Protestant Divines but even of Papist and the Pope himself save as he holds that he can dispence with the Law of God for the good of the Church and the Manuscript is now extant to prove this Pam. In Page 20 He refumes what he had said of us from Fame Viz. That it is our Opinion that the King hath nothing to do with us and thereupon proceeds to prove that His Majesty hath to do with us as if this last were a denyed or doubted Principle with us Ans It is too long to Transcribe for it begins in Page 20. and ends in Page 25. 1. But it is Coincident with that aleadged opinion as represented by him by us denyed and also with his fifth Principle but now answered and therefore we need here only say what in effect we have said namely that it is a falsity and figment of his own to say and insinuate that we deny Their Majesties Authority over us and therefore all his Interogations and wretched conclusions on that Suppositions of our denying Their Majesties we detest and if he will go on with a Labour in-vain unless it be to wrong us in the highest he must we can but Vindicate our selves 2. We can tell him that the highest word Assertors of Soveranty are not alwayes the truest Subjects Haman under pretence of exalâ—ing and benifiting his King sought his own Revenge and used the Royal Bow to shoot down good Subjects And no Age has been free of this Pestiferous mischief when Subjects are leveled at while they are on their Knees before their King as now we are it is no great Indication of Obedience to Their Majesties or Love to Their Subjects Pam. In Page 22 he saith It is a manifest thing that this and the other Homunculus hath a thousand times more Authority Respect and Obedience in Connecticut than Their Majesties have If a man come in Their Majesties Name and with Their Commission he will not be received by us but if a man come in his own name without Their Majesties Authority and Commission him we will receive This is not the behaviour of good Subjects Ans Either this is a base Reflection on those worthy Persons of the Neighbouring Jurisdictions with whom we have for the Publick been concerned it can intend no other for who have we received Viz. Aided but his Excellency of the Massachusetts and before him the Administrators of that Government and those of Albany and York at the Instance of them and by the advice of the Massachusetts to call these as he will have it Homunculus we received also Mr. Livingstone of Albany when Mr. Leisler vexed him these were the Homunculus the little men we received but not in their own names it was only to serve the Publick or else we are here taxed as if we used Their Majesties Authority to serve private Persons and Interests which is a gross Slander he should have named some of the Homunculus that we received in their own names and prefered before Their Majesties that our answer might have reached it particularly as for Mr. Leisler it