ARTICLES DE PERIN ET CABTEBET

peine ordinaire ils soyent suspendus de Texerdoe de leur charge, et que cependant le public perde un de ces Juges.

18. — *^ Lastiy, ferin and Garteret shall be allowed '^ to produce so many witnesses as they can find " within the said Isle for proofe of Articles formerly '^ preferred and delivered against the said Anthony ^^ and Geoi^e, and that no exception be taken and ^^ allowed against the said witnesses, ùnlesse the law ^' disable them by being parties, or otherwise of mis- '^ behavior, and the dépositions to be had in the ^' absence of the said Captain, Baillif and Jurats." Bapport des Commissaires. Item, ^^ to the eighteentb. ^^ The said Captain did take exceptions, at the first, " unto divers of the witnesses produced by the plain- ^^ tives against him, for that some of them were tenants ^' to the Seignor of Bosell, one of the Plaintives, and ^' divers others had been of the Êiction against him '' and had joined in the subscription of hands and '' signes in divers complaints against him. But when " they came to be examined he waved the benefit of ^' his exceptions and left it to our consideraçon. And " we refused but one or two, who were as parties.'* (Signed) " Tertullian Pyne, Kobert Napper."

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" THE DEPOSITIONS PRODUCED OF THE PART OF THE SAID ANTHONY POULET, ESQ., tiz: OF TEN MINISTERS, PREACHERS DP THE SAID ISLAND, FOR. THE PROOFE OF THE 4tr ARTICLE DESIRED TO BE ENQUIRED BY GEORGE POULET, ESQ., TOUCHING THE MAIN;rENANCE OF A FACTION IN THE SAID ISLAND. THE SAID PREACHERS BEING FIRST DBPOSED, DID WITH THEIR OWNE HANDS SETT DOWNB THEIR DEPOSl- TIONS TO THIS ARTICLE, AS HERE AFTER FOLLOWETH. BEFORE US COMMISSIONERS.**

1. — " I doe acknowledge that there hath been by ** John De Carteret and his confederates soe dan- ^' gerous faction in this Isle, that the people of our " Parishes, yea ail the Island, were divided in con- " trary parties, the one saying that they would hâve ** Mylord Seymor for their Governor, the other that ^ they would hâve Mr. Anthony Poulet ; and there- ** upon the people would hâve cast off the yeoke of *' ail good order established in the Church of this " Isle. Ail which I know because I hâve heard many " of mine own Parish and of others speake thereof ** and say that John De Carteret was the Procurer " of those that held for Mylord Seymor. Written " and signed with his owne hand." " J. Parent, " Ministerof St. Brelade."