324 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692.

U. H. J.

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
May 31^st 1692.
As to the Horse it appears to this Board that upon former
application to the Government had an Order Granted him for
Restitution thereof which this Board think reasonable should
be renewed, the Article taken in Hostility or Surrender upon
Articles cannot be forced to be returned neither is it known to
this Board where or in whose Custody they are and as for the
proposalls made by the petitioner and the several Copys
thereof the House if they have employed the petitioner may
Consider of making Satisfaction for the same as they shall
think fit
Sign'd p Order
J LLewellin Clk.

John Wincoll petition preferred to this Board as follows.

To his Excellency the Governor and his Honourable Council
The humble petition of John Wincoll
Most humbly sheweth
That your petitioner hath well and faithfully behaved him-
self with all duty and Submission to this present Government
and shall still persevere in so doing as becomes a Loyal Sub-
ject and Good Protestant that he is at present out of Employ-
ment but most ready and willing to Embrace any Opportu-
nity of getting an honest Livelyhood and being informed that
the Cryers place of the Provincial Court is not yet setled
upon any particular Person since your Excellencys arrival
Your Petitioner humbly offers himself to your Honours
Consideration and prays that he may stand fair in your Hon-
ours favour so as to have Conferred on him the said Office
which he shall endeavour to Execute with all faith and dili-
gence to the best of his Skill and Power
And as in duty bound he shall pray &c.

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The petition Granted and the Petitioner nominated and
appointed by his Excellency the Governor Cryer of the Pro-
vincial Court
Major Nicholas Sewall by his petition prays allowance for
three Horses prest from him in the time of the late Revolution
for his Majestys Service and made use of for some Consider-
able time one of them the best and his own Particular Riding
Horse so Grossly abused that soon after he was Returned
home died, his Family Provisions and his Hay Oates and
Straw Fodder for his Cattle and other Creatures all destroyed
and devoured by the Guards quartered upon him and by that