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lency to trouble you with The Parishinors in General being
furnished with these Sentiments, they determined and directed
us as their Representatives to enter into a litigation of these
points and the more ready to bring this dispute on that we
should shut the Church doors and refuse M^r Rosse any
admittance in any of them which request we agreed to comply
with and should have put in Execution had M^r Rosse offered
himself to us, but we afterwards understood that M^r Rosse
being acquainted with the resentment the people shewed to
him on this occasion and their determined resolutions of con-
testing with him, that he never offered himself to us but made
application to your Excellency to resign his Induction. The
next alarm that reached our Ears was that M^r Hughs had
obtained an Induction which soon aded. fuwell to the fire
kindled through M^r Rosse the people knowing that M^r Hughs
had been some time as a probationer in a neighbouring Parish,
and were acquainted that he had been there lo'ng enough to
inform them, that from his conduct the little time he was there
and from the character they had received of him from sundry
Gentlemen from the Northward to whom he was well known,
that our case if possible was worse then before yet as M^r
Hughs was not personally known to the parishioners, upon
his appearing among us we as the Vestry determined to use
him a Gentleman and do him any good natured Act in our
power, except that of giving up what we thought was our
right, and that on his notice to us we met him at the Parish
Church, when we informed him the resolution the people
came in on the case of M^r Rosse we let him know as the
Parishinors were unacquainted with his coming we thought it
our duty to give them notice and to receive their aprobation
as to the receiving or rejecting of him, and proposed that
he should fix a day of meeting that might be convenient to
him, and we accordingly fixed a day for that purpose, it was
further proposed to him that in case he would give up his
Induction to your Exellency and come into the Parish under an
appointment of your Exellency as a Reader and continue a
reasonable time on tryal if he should render himself agreeable
to the People, then we would apply to your Exellency in his
favour for an Induction and also pray your Exellency to
apropriate to him the Salery for such time as he should so act
which last proposition he like an Honest Man rejected yet at
the same time expressed his Satisfaction in contending for
what we thought was our Right and said we were highly
comendable in Contending and at the same time informed us
that he should imediately return to the place of his Abode,
but contrary to our expectation the friday after this Conversa-
tion being Christmas day, he forcibly broke and entered the