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<HEAD>REASONS FOR THE Rever&s;al of LEISLER'S Attainder. <HI>Humbly offered to the Con&s;ideration of the Honourable</HI> Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<P>IN the Month of <HI>February</HI> 1688. there came News to <HI>New-York,</HI> that the then Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> was Landed in <HI>England;</HI> and in <HI>April</HI> then following, the In|habitants of <HI>New-York</HI> received an account that the People of <HI>New England</HI> had &s;eized upon Sir <HI>Edmond Andro&s;s</HI> (the then Governor of <HI>New England</HI> and <HI>New-York</HI>) Mr. <HI>Dudley</HI> the Pre&s;ident, and &s;everal others of his Council, as well affected to King <HI>James</HI>'s Intere&s;t; and the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">upon the People declared for the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> and Prote&s;tant Intere&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Whereupon tho&s;e of the Militia, and others of <HI>New-York,</HI> finding that Captain <HI>Nichol&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> (the then Deputy-Governor of <HI>New-York,</HI> under Sir <HI>Edmond Andro&s;s</HI>) would not there declare for the then Prince of <HI>Orange, &amp;c.</HI> The Militia &s;eized upon the Fort, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd by turns the Captains of the Militia (of which Captain <HI>Le&s;lier</HI> was one) ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Guard there; and thereupon &s;ent their Circular Letters to chu&s;e an <HI>A&s;&s;embly,</HI> which <HI>A&s;&s;embly,</HI> or Committee of Safety, being met <HI>June</HI> 1689.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Captain <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> by the A&s;&s;em|bly fir&s;t made Captain of the Fort, and &s;oon after Com|mander in Chief of <HI>New-York.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Under their Hands and Seals appointed the &s;aid Captain</HI> Le&s;lier <HI>Cap|tain of the Fort; and in</HI> Augu&s;t <HI>then following, under heir hands and Seals con&s;tituted the &s;aid Captain</HI> Le&s;lier <HI>Commander in Chief of the Province of</HI> New-York, <HI>till Order &s;hould come from their then Maje&s;ties.</HI> In <HI>December</HI> then following, there arrived a Me&s;&s;enger from <HI>England</HI> with a Letter from His Maje&s;ty, under th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Signet, thus directed;</P>
<P><HI>To our Tru&s;ty and Well-beloved</HI> Francis Nichol&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, <HI>E&s;q; our Lieutenant Governor, and Commander in Chief of our Province of New-York in</HI> America. <HI>And in his Ab&s;ence to &s;uch as for the time being, take care for pre&s;erving the Peace, and Admini&s;tring the Laws in our &s;aid Province of</HI> New-York <HI>in</HI> America.</P>
<P>Which Letter, after a &s;hort introduction, run<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the&s;e words;
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<P>We do hereby <HI>Authorize and Impower you to take upon you the Government</HI> of the &s;aid Province, calling to your A&s;&s;i&s;tance in the Admini&s;tration thereof,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Captain <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> by the King con&s;tituted Deputy-Go|vernor of <HI>New York.</HI></NOTE> the Principal Freeholders and Inhabitants of the &s;ame, or &s;o many of them as you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hall think fit: Willing and Requiring you to do and perform all things which to the Place and Office of Our <HI>Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief</HI> of Our Province of <HI>New-York,</HI> doth or may appertain, as you &s;hall find nece&s;&s;ary for Our Service, and the good Government of Our Subjects, according to the Laws and Cu&s;toms of Our &s;aid Province until further Order from Us; and &s;o We bid you fare|well.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall</HI> <DATE>the 30th. Day of <HI>July, 1689;</HI> in the Fir&s;t Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>By His Maje&s;ties Command,</HI> Nottingham.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Captain <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> (being as before) Con&s;tituted <HI>Commander in Chief of the Province of New-York,</HI> and <HI>Nichol&s;on</HI> having been gone from <HI>New-York</HI> about <HI>&s;ix Months</HI> before the Kings Lettter Arriv'd: The Me&s;&s;enger told Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler,</HI> that if he would receive the Letter,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> and give a Receipt for the &s;ame, he &s;hould have it; which Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> accordingly did,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Captain <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> by virtue of the King's Let|ter, acts as Lieutenant-Governor for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">3 Months be|fore <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> arrived.</NOTE> and Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler being by His Maje&s;ty thus Con&s;tituted Lieut. Governor,</HI> he continued by Virtue <HI>of this Authority under the Signet, Lieut. Governor without any Oppo&s;ition, for about <HI>thirteen</HI> Months, and then</HI> Capt. <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> Arriv'd at <HI>New-York</HI> with two Companies of Foot, who <HI>by his Commi&s;&s;ion was obliged to obey the Governor of</HI> New-York <HI>for <HI>the time be|ing;</HI></HI> Capt. <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> di&s;owning Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI>'s Government, without any Authority <HI>deman|ded Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Fort,</HI> which <HI>Lei&s;ler refu&s;ed;</HI> but offer'd him and his Soldiers all the
<PB REF="3" MS="y"> Accommodations the City of <HI>New-York</HI> could afford.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ingoldsby,</HI> be|fore <HI>Slaughters</HI> arrival, de|mands Po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion of the Fort, (with|out producing an Autho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ity &s;o to do); which <HI>Le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r</HI> r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fus'd to give.</NOTE> Capt. <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> continued &s;ome &s;hort time peaceably at <HI>New-York;</HI> at Length, upon Complaints by the Inhabitants of <HI>New-York,</HI> again&s;t the rudene&s;s of Capt. <HI>Ingoldsby</HI>'s Soldiers, there happen'd &s;ome Di|&s;turbance, and thereupon <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> planted Guns again&s;t the Fort, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> So that &s;oon after many Guns were fired both again&s;t, and from the Fort. On the <HI>nineteenth</HI> of <HI>March</HI> 1690, in the Evening, Coll. <HI>Slaughter</HI> Arrived at <HI>New-York,</HI> and that very Night read his Commi&s;&s;ion, and Swore four of his Council, and then fent Capt. <HI>In|goldsby</HI> to the Fort to demand Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion thereof; Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> hereupon &s;ent one that knew Coll. <HI>Slaughter,</HI> out of the Fort, to &s;ee whether the Coll. was Arrived, and the Me&s;&s;enger returning told him that Coll. <HI>Slaughter</HI> was come; upon which Capt. <HI>Lei|&s;ler</HI> about ten that night &s;ent two Per&s;ons to Coll. <HI>Slaughter</HI> to Congratulate his Arrival, and to offer him Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Fort, and to receive his Commands, and Capt. <HI>In|goldsby</HI> did then promi&s;e tho&s;e Me&s;&s;engers &s;hould &s;afely return, but contrary hereunto tho&s;e Per&s;ons were Seized by Coll. <HI>Slaughter;</HI> upon notice hereof, Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> took care to put all things in order for the delivery of the Fort the next Morning to the Go|vernor, and accordingly in the Morning &s;ent a Letter to the Governor, de&s;iring him to &s;end one to take Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Fort, whereupon Capt. <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> was &s;ent, and then Capt. <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> order'd the Gates to be open'd, and Capt. <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> with his Soldiers were let in; <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> Commanded about three Hundred Men then <HI>with him in the Fort,</HI> to lay down their Arms, which t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ey immediately did; and March'd out of the Fort.</P>
<P><HI>There happened no Act of Ho&s;tility after Collonel</HI> Slaughter <HI>Landed.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> is in|dicted of High Trea&s;on char|ged to be committed two days be|fore <HI>Slaughter</HI> landed, and con&s;equently before <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI>'s Authority de|termin'd.</NOTE>Captain <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> and many under him were made Pri&s;oners, and &s;oon after <HI>Le&s;lier, Milbourn,</HI> and others, were tried f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r High Trea&s;on and Felony charg'd again&s;t them to be Committed the <HI>Seventeenth</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f <HI>March,</HI> 1690. At this Court Mr. <HI>Dudley <HI>was Chief Ju&s;tice or Pre&s;ident;</HI></HI> Lei&s;ler <HI>and</HI> Milbourn <HI>receiv'd Sentence of Death, and were <HI>Executed</HI> accordingly.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> It's objected again&s;t the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ill, That <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> &s;uffered according to Law, <HI>in that he would not plead.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> One of the Witne&s;&s;es that <HI>oppo&s;ed</HI> this Bill, declared, That Captain <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> pro|duced to the Court the King's before-mention'd Letter,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The occa&s;ion of <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI>'s not pleading.</NOTE> and de&s;ired (before he plead|ed) to be by the Court re&s;olved, <HI>Whether by that Letter he had any Authority.</HI>&mdash;This Que&s;tion <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> often <HI>pre&s;s'd,</HI> and t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at Court as often <HI>refu&s;ed</HI> to give him any An&s;wer thereunto; and <HI>This <HI>occa&s;ioned</HI></HI> Lei&s;ler<HI>'s not Pleading.</HI> &mdash;But the <HI>Merit</HI> of the <HI>Whole <HI>Ca&s;e</HI></HI> is <HI>Now</HI> before this Honourable Hou&s;e:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he <HI>Whole</HI> Me|rit of the Ca&s;e now before the Hou&s;e</NOTE> And (it's humbly hop'd) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> appear, That <HI>The <HI>High-Trea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n</HI></HI> charged in the Indictment to be committed the <HI>Seventeenth</HI> Day of <HI>March,</HI> 1690, was <HI>nothing more</HI> than <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI>'s <HI>then <HI>refu&s;ing</HI></HI> to <HI>&s;ur|render</HI> the Fort to Captain <HI>Ingoldsby,</HI> who not only <HI>without,</HI> but even <HI>again&s;t</HI> the King's Authority demanded the &s;ame. &mdash;For Captain <HI>Ingoldsby</HI> was obliged by <HI>expre&s;s <HI>Words</HI></HI> in his Commi&s;&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The</HI> High-Trea&s;on for which <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> was executed.</NOTE> to <HI>obey the Commander in Chief of</HI> New York <HI>for the time being;</HI> and <HI>Lei&s;ler</HI> (as is humbly thought) was <HI>then <HI>&s;uch, and &s;o continued till the</HI> Nineteenth, <HI>when Collonel</HI></HI> Slaughter <HI>landed.</HI></P>
<P>Whether this Relation was prov'd before that Honourable <HI>Committee</HI> that la&s;t Sate upon this Bill, Is Humbly Submitted to tho&s;e worthy Members then pre&s;ent &mdash; And if this Account was then prov'd: It's Humbly hop'd this Bill may pa&s;s.</P>
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