or refusall of not levieing the assessment or non-payment, the same method and course to be taken and used, as is ordered concerning the £300 rate, last assessed by the Collony.

And further ordered, That whereas Capt'n Randall Howldon and Capt'n John Greene, inhabitants of the towne of Warwick, should have the sum of sixty pounds in New England money, as aforesaid, paid them by the Collony, in a rate to be levied upon the severall townes in this Collony, viz.: the towne of Newport, on Rhode Island, to pay the sum of eighteene pounds in money; the towne of Portsmouth, on said Island, to pay the sum of eleven pounds in money; the towne of Providence the sum of four pounds in money; the towne of Warwick the sum of four pounds in money; the towne of Kings Towne the sum of six pounds in money; the towne of Westerly the sum of four pounds in money; the towne of Shoreham the sum of four pounds in money; the towne of East Greenwich the sum of three pounds in money; the towne of Jamestowne the sum of six pounds in money, with the charges of transportation to Newport, and the Generall Treasurer's fees. And there being a necessity for the present money to answer the engagements of Capt'n Randall Howlden and Capt'n John Greene, Mr. Stephen Arnold haveing paid downe the said sum of sixty pounds upon the engagements of the severall persons here under written, to see him paid again, viz.: Major John Cranston, Governour, Mr. Walter Clarke, Deputy Governour, Mr. Caleb Carr and Mr. Joseph Clarke, haveing given their bills to Mr. Arnold for eighteen pounds, eight shillings, in money, Mr. Thomas Ward gave his bill for three pounds, twelve shillings in money; Capt'n John Albro, John Sanford, Mr. George Lawton and Mr. William Codman gave their bills for eleven pounds in money; Mr. John Warner gave his bill for fifteene pounds in money; Mr. Joseph Jencks gave his bill for four pounds in money; Mr. George Lawton gave his bill for four pounds in money, and Mr. John Williams gave his bill for four pounds in money. The said bills being given to Mr. Stephen Arnold for the payment of the sum of sixty pounds in money. Therefore these are to order the Generall Treasurer, Major Peleg Sanford, to

see that according to law the sum of sixty pounds money, with his fees for receiving and the charges, be gathered and insessed upon the inhabitants of each towne in the Collony, and brought by the last of October next, and be paid as it comes into his hands, to the severall persons according to their proportions, which have given their bills to Mr. Stephen Arnold for the same. And that the said sum of sixty pounds is not to be made use of, or any other wayes disposed than the true and absolute discharge of this the Collony's debt.

Voted, That whereas in the assessment made by the Assembly in October last, for the payment of the Collony's debts, money was ordered to be the principal rule for payments, and other species to be paid, a certaine price was sett, in which order wooll at six pence per pound, and great part of the said rate being brought in to the Generall Treasurer in wooll, which the Treasurer cannot refuse to receive, nor pay under the price assessed; neither at that rate can produce moneys: this Assembly doe order, That for what wooll the Treasurer hath received, and hath paid to Mr. Miles Forster, or to any person by him ordered to receive it, on the Collony's account for moneys due, shall be paid and accounted at five pence per pound, and the Treasurer shall be secured in paying wooll at that rate to the said Mr. Forster, or his order.

Voted, Whereas it hath evidently been made to appear to this Assembly that Mr. Richard Smith, inhabitting in Narragansett, in the King's Province, hath exhibited and layd a petition before his Majesty and the Honorable Lords of his Privy Councill, in the Kingdom of England, the said petition being composed with many false, untrue and unjust charges on the government of this his Majesty's Collony, and alsoe therein endeavouring the absolute overturn and subversion of this government under his Majesty, and bringing the same under the government of Connecticut, contrary to his Majesty's gracious grant in his Charter to us, which proceedings of his are against the law of this Collony, and true allegiance to his Majesty and his authority placed and established in this Collony: this Assembly, in due obedience to his Majesty's honour and authority

doe see cause to order, That the said Richard Smith, with all convenient speed bee apprehended, secured and duly examined, and prosicuted for those his unlawfull actings. And to that end, and for the full and reall performance of the premises, this Assembly doe desire that with all convenient speed the Governor be pleased by a warrant under his hand, to cause the said Mr. Richard Smith to be apprehended and brought before the Governor, or Deputy Governor, and such of the Councill as may be present, to be dealt withall as the Governor and Councill shall see cause to be just and legall, according to the meritt of his offense.*

* Petition of Richard Smith and others.

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. The humble petition of Richard Smith, in behalfe of himselfe, John Winthrop, Esq'r, Josiah Winsloe, William Harris, John Viall and others, proprietors and inhabitants on a tract of land called the Narragansett Country, part of your Majesty's dominions in New England Sheweth:

That your petitioners are inhabitants in that part of New England called the Narragansett Country, where their ancestors did about forty years since sit down and expend great sums of money in planting and improveing the same.

That in the 13th year of your Majesty's reigne, upon the humble petition of John Winthrop, Esq'r, John Mason, Samuell Willis and others, inhabitants in the southermost parts of New England, your Majesty was graciously pleased to incorporate the said inhabitants by the name of the Governour and Company of Connecticut Colony, giving and granting unto them and their successors, all the part of land in New England, in America, bounded on the east by the Narragansett Bay, with the Island adjoyning thereunto.

That in the 15th yeare of your Majesty's reigne, John Clark, on behalfe of Benjamin Arnold, Wm. Brenton and others, procured a grant of Incorporation likewise from your Majesty, by the name of the Governour and Company of Rhode Island, and the rest of the Colony of Providence Plantation in the Narragansett Bay in New England, thereby including (as they pretend) all the lands planted by your petitioners, and formerly granted to the Governor and Company of your Majesty's Colony of Connecticut, as aforesaid.

That your petitioners finding many inconveniences arising daily by reason of a government usurped by the inhabitants of Rhode Island, on the pretence aforesaid, the exercising and imposing other lawes and formes of government, than what your petitioners had been accustomed unto, did about seven years agoe by the hand of Richard Smith, the present petitioner, who came then alsoe into England, [to] present their humble petition to your Majesty, signed by the principall proprietors and inhabitants in the said Narragansett Country, setting forth the many irregularities in the proceedings of the government of Rhode Island, and humbly prayed your Majesty's reliefe therein; but the warrs with Holland and other weighty affaires of

Voted, Whereas upon a petition of Capt'n John Albro to this Assembly in May last, in behalfe of his sonn John Albro,

State intervening, your petitioners were referred to a more convenient time; by which means your petitioners are without any settled government.

That in the time of the late Indian warr, the petitioners sent to the government of Rhode Island for their protection and defence, which was absolutely denyed them, the then Governor of Rhode Island being a Quaker, and thought it perhaps not lawfull either to give commission or take up armes; so that their townes, goods, corne, and cattle were by the savage natives burnt and totally destroyed: whereby the petitioners are become great sufferers in their estates and fortunes.

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your Majesty to take the matter into your gracious consideration, and to grant your Royall letters, directed to the government of Rhode Islaud, requiring them to forbear to exercise any authority over the inhabitants of the Narragansett country; but that your petitioners and other inhabitants of the said country, together with the Islands Quonaniquett, Hope, Patience and Dutch Island, thereunto belonging, may be settled and restored unto the government and jurisdiction of your Majesty's Governour and Company of Connecticut Colony, according to your Majesty's precedent grant, and so remaine untill your Majesty's pleasure be further knowne.

And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c.

RICHARD SMITH,

In behalfe of himselfe, and others above mentioned.

Order in Councill, on the petition of Richard Smith and others.

At the Court at Whitehall, the 3d of July, 1678. By the King's Most Excellent Majesty and the Lords of his Majesty's most Honorable Privy Councill.

Upon reading this day, at the Board, the humble petition of Richard Smith, in behalfe of himselfe, John Winthrop, Esq'r, Josiah Winsloe, William Harris, John Vyall, and others, proprietors and inhabitants on a tract of land called the Narragansett Country, part of his Majesty's dominions in New England, setting forth the many great inconveniences arising dayly by reason of a government usurped over them by the inhabitants of Rhode Island, on pretence of a Charter of Incorporation granted to them in the 15th yeare of his Majesty's reigne, and praying his Majesty's letters to the government of Rhode Island to forbear to exercise any authority over the inhabitants of the Narragansett Country, but that they together with the lands Quonaniquett, Hope, Patience and Dutch Is!and thereunto belonging, may, according to his Majesty's precedent grant in the 13th year of his reigne, be settled and restored unto the government and jurisdiction of the Connecticut Colony. It was ordered by his Majesty in Councill, that it be, and is hereby referred to the Right Honorable the Lords of the Committee of this Board for Trade and Plantations, to examine and consider of the matter of this Petition, and to report to his Majesty in Councill how they find the same, with their opinion, what they judge most fit to be done for redressing the inconveniencys complayned of. JOHN NICHOLAS.

Jun'r, concerning a verdict of the jury in the Generall Court of Tryalls (held the 12th of said May), against his said sonn John Albro, upon which petition, the Assembly did see cause to order the Court of Tryalls to suspend judgment, referring the further consideration of that matter to their next sitting, as is more fully expressed in that act; and this Assembly haveing perused the said petition, and seariously considered the matter, doe referr the further consideration of that matter unto the Generall Assembly in October next, to judge of and determine.

Voted, That the Generall Sergeant shall from time to time take care for the providing victualls for the members of the Generall Assemblys and Courts of Tryalls, as is ordered in the act of the Assembly sitting in May last, and shall be truly paid by the Generall Treasurer.

Voted, That an order be given from this Assembly by the Recorder to the Generall Treasurer for the payment of twenty

Warrant for apprehending Richard Smith.

To Mr. John Easton, one of his Majesty's Constables for the towne of Newport, or any other of his Majesty's Constables of said Towne, or Towne of Portsmouth, greeting:

These are in his Majesty's name, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c., to require you or either of you forthwith upon sight hereof, to apprehend the body of Richard Smith, merchant, inhabitant in the Narragansett, in the King's Province, in his Majesty's Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and him the said Smith finding or apprehending, to secure and bring before us in the towne of Newport, the next Wednesday, the twenty-third (23) day of this instant moneth, July, 1679, and then and there to answer to such charges as shall bee exhibited against him; and also to the examinations that the authority shall see cause to premise, in his Majesty's behalfe. Hereof fail not at your perill. Given under hands, the 19th day

II. Nos. 132-4.)

A true copy of the warrant, by

of July, 1679.-(J. Carter Brown's Mss. Vol.

JOHN CRANSTON, Governor.
WALTER CLARK, Deputy Governor.
CALEB CARR, Assistant.

THOMAS WARD, “

JOHN EASTON, Jun'r, Constable.

[For additional papers relative to the controversy connected with the Narragansett country, see the end of this session.]