prisoners pleaded not guilty, but had little to say in defence for themselves, further than they were drawn in by Gove. The jury, after long consideration, found Gove guilty of high treason upon the indictment, and all the rest in arms; upon which the court proceeded to give judgment, and passed the sentence of condemnation upon Gove; but in regard to the other prisoners were specially found. The governor ordered the court to respite their judgment till his Majesty's pleasure should be known therein; most of them being young men, and altogether unacquainted with the laws of England. Herewith I humbly present your lordships a particular account of their trial.

Signed by RICHARD WALDRON, Esq., judge of that court, and passed under the seal of the Province.

[The foregoing, was copied from the Massachusetts colony files, and communicated by Mr. Joshua Coffin, S. H. S., Mass. to the late John Farmer, Esq.]

1684.

The Warrant and Mittimus whereby William Vaughan, Esq., was committed to Prison.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

To James Sherlock, gent., Sheriff and Provost-Marshal of the said Province, or his Deputy.

In his Majesty's name you are hereby required to take and apprehend the body of William Vaughan, Esq., of Portsmouth, and convey him to the prison of Great Island, and Richard Abbot, the prison-keeper thereof, is hereby required to receive the said Vaughan into said prison, and there keep him in safe custody till he shall give good security to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and successors, for his, the said Vaughan's, good behavior toward the same, our sovereign lord the king, he having refused to find security for his said good behavior, the sixth day of February, 1683. Given under my hand and seal, the said 6th day of February, 1683-4.

Edward Cranfield. [L. s.]

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

Whereas Richard Waldron, of Cochecho, in the precincts of Dover, Esq., hath refused to pay the rate continued by virtue of his Majesty's royal commission, bearing date of the 9th of May, 1682, as appears by the oath of John Gerrish, a constable of Dover: These are, therefore, in his Majesty's name, to require you forthwith to apprehend the body of the said Richard Waldron, and convey him to the prison of Great Island, if he do not immediately discover some part of his estate to satisfy the said rate; and the prison-keeper is hereby required to receive him and safely keep him till he shall pay the said rate, or give security so to do, according to an act of this Province, made the 14th of November, 1682, and this shall be your sufficient warrant. Fail not, as you will answer the contrary at your peril.

Given under our hands and seals, at Great Island, the first day of September, in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord, Charles the Second, king of England, &c., A. D. 1684. Walter Barefoot, Richard Chamberlain, S

Justices of the Peace.

To JOHN GERRISH, one of the Constables of Dover: You are hereby required to take one shilling for this warrant and two shillings for serving it.

James Sherlock, Justice of the Peace. [L. s.]

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.-By the Governor.

Whereas I have received an order of council, bearing date at Whitehall, the 27th of August last, wherein his Majesty doth strictly command and require all governors in his Majesty's respective plantations, to cause a law forthwith to be enacted within their said jurisdictions and governments, entitled an act for the restraining and punishing of privateers and pirates, in such method and form as was passed and agreed upon by the Governor, Council and Assembly of for the punishing of the aforesaid offenders, and the preservation of his Majesty's subjects, and all others who are in amity and peace with the crown of England. In obedience to the said com

mand from his sacred Majesty, Edward Cranfield, Esq., his Majesty's lieutenant governor and commander-in-chief of this said Province, do, in his Majesty's name, hereby command and require you to call together the freeholders of the town of Hampton, and the said freeholders are hereby required and impowered to meet on Monday next, being the 19th of May instant, to elect and make choice of able and loyal freeholders to serve in the General Assembly for the said town of Hampton, in order to their convening at Great Island, at the house late in the possession of George Jaffrey, on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh of May instant, for the passing the said acts, and doing such other further matters as may tend to the support and honor of his Majesty's government.

Given under my hand and the seal of the Province, the sixteenth day of May, 1684, and in the 36th year of his Majesty's reign.

To MR. DANIEL MATHEWS, Sheriff, or his Deputy.

The like was sent to the three other towns in said Province.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

Whereas the Honorable Edward Cranfield, Esq., Governor of this, his Majesty's said Province, and Robert Mason, Esq., proprietor of the same, did in February last obtain judgments against Richard Martin, of Portsmouth, in the said Province, Esq., late treasurer thereof, for the respective sums of twelve pound two shillings, and fifty-nine pound fourteen shillings, with costs of court respectively, being for so much by him received for fines and forfeitures: viz., from January, 1679, to May, 1682, legally due to the said Robert Mason, and from May aforesaid to October following, legally due the said Edward Cranfield: And whereas the said Richard Martin hath petitioned the said Robert Mason as chancellor of the said Province, and Walter Barefoot and John Hinks, Esqrs., assistants of the court of chancery, therein setting forth that he did receive the aforesaid sums of money, and disposed thereof by order and command of the late President and Council, that the whole sum may not be levied solely upon him, but that the Council

then in being may make contribution and draw equal proportion thereof: This court, therefore, taking into consideration the equity of the said Richard Martin's case, doth hereby order Richard Waldron, of Cochecho, in Dover, Esq.; William Vaughan, of Portsmouth, Esq.; John Gilman, of Exeter, Esq.; Christopher Hussey, of Hampton, Esq.; and Elias Stileman, of Great Island, Esq., late members of this said Council; as also Reuben Hull, guardian to John Cutt, executor of John Cutt, Esq., late President, deceased; Bridget Daniel, executrix of Thomas Daniel, Esq., late of the said Council, deceased, and Mehitable Dalton, executrix of Samuel Dalton, Esq., late of the said Council, deceased, and Job Clements, executor of Job Clements, late of the said Council, deceased, To be and appear at Great Island, before the said Robert Mason, Chancellor, and Walter Barefoot and John Hinks, assistants, on the 19th of this present month of May: there to show cause why they shall not be equally charged with the said Richard Martin to pay their proportions of the said suit, and costs sustained thereby.

Dated the twelfth day of May, 1684.

By order:

R. Chamberlain, Clerk per Council.

To the honored Court sitting at the Great Island, this 6th of November, 1684.

Your humble petitioner humbly sueth that the worshipful court would please to show some pity and compassion towards him, and to take so far notice of his present distress as to afford him what relief may be. There was two that swore against your humble petitioner for speaking certain words against the authority of this place, which he doth profess himself to be utterly ignorant of; which, if they were true, doth confess himself to be strangely transported beyond reason, and humbly craveth your Honors' pardon thereof, being, by reason of old age, subject to manifold passions, and subject to miscarry, which he doth not at all allow himself in, but hopes he shall keep so narrow a watch over himself as not to offend in any such sort. Now, whereas it hath pleased this honored court to pass a fine upon your poor petitioner, he humbly

craveth your Worships to consider his age and inability to shift in the world, and to remit part or the whole, hoping that reformation-the end of the law-being obtained, your Worships will find a way to show some favor to a poor offender, wherein you will forever oblige him to pray for your Honors' prosperity, and shall rest

Your Honors' humble petitioner,

Peter Clanfield.

Mary Rann, being aged thirty years, or thereabout, witnesseth, that the 21st day of March, 1684, being in company with Seabank Hog, I heard her say it was very hard for the governor of this Province to strike Sam Lane before he spoke. The said Hog said also, that it was well the said Lane's mother was not there for the governor, for if she had been, there had been bloody work for him. I heard the said Hog say, also, that the governor and the rest of the gentlemen were a crew of pitiful curs. And did they want earthly honors? If they did, she would pull off her head clothes and come in her hair to them, like a parcel of pitiful beggarly curs as they were ;come to undo us both body and soul. They could not be contented to take our estates from us, but they have taken away

the gospel; also, wish the devil would have them for it. And as for John Tuften, she said she could take down his breeches and whip his ass!

Sworn in the court of pleas, held at Great Island the 7th of November, 1684.

R. Chamberlain, Sec.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE IN NEW-ENGLAND.

I, Richard Chamberlain, Esq., Secretary of the said Province, and prothonotary of the court of pleas there, do hereby certify that, about the 13th of November, 1682, upon an information exhibited by Edward Randolph, Esq., then attorneygeneral for the said Province, for riotous meeting and contemptuous behavior against Joseph Dow, of Hampton, and others; the others submitting to the court were discharged;