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jesty's store houses and shall be for this purpose provided under ye care of comissary who is to keep a faithful account of ye goods which shall be delivered and we shall allow out of ye meet produce thereof so much to be paid her Majesty, her heirs and successors as upon a fair account shall appear to have been disbursed for subsistance of us, or providing necessaries for our families.

In witness.

REV. MR. LABOREI'S PETITION.

To His Excellency Edward Viscount Cornbury Capt. Generall & Governor in Chief of ye Provinces of New York New Jersey and Territories Depending Thereon in America & Vice Admirall of ye same etc. in Councill.

The humble Petition of James Laborei minister of ye French Church in ye City of New York

Sheweth

That your Excellencys Petitioners predecessors ministers of ye said Church have been allowed a Yearly Sallary of Twenty pounds per annum out of ye Revenue of this Province & your Excellencys Petitioner having been minister thereof from May last,

Humbly prays your Excellency to grant unto your Petitioner Warrants for ye like Sallary Payable quarterly out of ye revenue and your Excellencys Petitioner as in Duty Bound shall Ever pray etc.

James Laborei.

Read in Council 18th Dec. 1709 and granted.- Doc. Hist. N. Y. Vo'. ill. p. 263.

SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL.

Rev. John Frederick Haeger to be sent to New York.

Dec. 16, 1709. p. 211. § 5.

The Secretary reported from the Committee that having inquired according to order after a fit person to be sent over with the Palatines that are going to New York as their minister, that one John Frederic Haeger had attended them and offered his services to the Society producing testimonials of his learning and morals to their satisfaction, whereupon and upon the good account that Dr. Slare, Mr. De Neufoile and several others gave of him, they had recommended him to the Lord Bishop of London to be put into Holy orders, if his Lordship thought convenient, to the end that he might be qualified for the above mentioned mission. The report having been considered agreed that the said

Mr. Haeger be the Society Missionary in such part of the province of New York, where her Majesty shall think fit to settle the poor Palatines, provided that he be episcopally ordained, and that the said Mr. Haeger do qualify himself agreeable to the order of the Society about missionaries, and it is recommended to Mr. Bonet, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Hales and Dr. Slare to hear the said gentleman read prayers and preach, and report to the Committee whose approbation shall be final.

§ 6.

Agreed that the text upon which Mr. Haeger do preach before the above mentioned gentlemen be part of the 5th verse of the 11th chapter of St. Matthew on the words: The poor have the gospel preached to them.

7. Agree that the sum of fifty pounds per annum to commence from Mithas last be allowed to the said Mr. Haeger with the usual sum of ten pounds and five pounds for books.

Dec. 30, 1709. p. 217. § 7.

The Secretary reported from the Committee that Mr. Haeger the Palatine minister, after having been ordained by the Lord Bishop of London, had read prayers and preached pursuant to the orders of the Society, and had performed very well, whereupon they had admitted him into the service of the society according to the powers given them by the last General Meeting.

THE PALATINES CATECHISM OR A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THEIR
CAMPS AT BLACK HEATH AND CAMBERWELL.

In a pleasant Dialogue between an English Tradesman and a
High-Dutchman.- (A representation of their Camp.) London,
Printed for P. Hase in Holborn, 1709.

THE PALATINES CATECHISM.

Eng. Tradesman. Good morrow Mynheer Slouch whither are you going so early this morning?

High Dutchman. To Black Heath to see my old Friends and acquaintance the

Palatines.

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H. D.

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Pray, where does these Palatines come from that flock hither so fast? From a certain province of Germany called the Lower Palatinate divided from the French conquest of Alsatia, by a great river twice as big as the Thames, known by the name of Lower Rhine, bordering on Francony, Lorain, Bavaria, Ments and Triers. The whole country from east to west is about one hundred English miles, but from south to north, not above sixty. Their Capital City is Heidelburgh, where the Elector Palatine keeps his court.

I don't want a description of their country so much as I do a reason for leaving it.

Truly that is a melancholy story.

Aye, and so is that of their coming hither, however let me hear it.
The French having made themselves masters of Alsatia and taken all the
strong towns on the Lower Rhine some years ago, have almost every year
since invaded their country with fire and sword, burning and destroying
all before them; more especially about two years since, the Mareschal
de Villars and his merciless army reduced it to a perfect wilderness, not
leaving the poor Palatines so much as a house to hide their heads in, nor
hardly cloaths to cover their nakedness, so that laboring under these mis-
fortunes, Her Majesty of Great Britain, out of her Christian clemency and
tenderness, invited some thousands of them into England, where they are
well provided for, both at Black Heath and Camberwell.

This was a very gracious and bountiful Act of her Majesty, which un-
doubtedly will be recorded as a lasting pattern of mercy to future govern-
ments; but I would fain know the reason why their own princes and nobility
take no better care of them?

H. D. Because the wars has been so burthensome to them, that they are not scarce able to support their own grandeur.

E. T.

H. D.

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H. D.

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H. D.

E. T.

I am sorry to hear that we have no better allies on that side, who can neither fight their foes, nor feed their poor without us; at any rate, we are like to have a rare kettle of fish, if every time the French lead them a dance we are forced to pay the piper.

When the war is ended, I suppose the emperor and his German Princes will make you some satisfaction, in the meantime, necessity has no law. This is High German doctrine with a vengeance, when the sky falls we catch larks. But pray how long do you think it will be before this grateful piece of compensation will be made, according to your foreign calculations?

That is a question sooner asked than resolved; the fate of war is uncertain, he that is conqueror to-day, may be prisoner to-morrow. However, according to human appearance, the common enemy will be soon humbled. All this is little to the purpose. I think our charity ought to begin at home, both in peace and war, before we extend it to our neighbors. I confess we are commanded to love them as ourselves, but to love them better, will be counted maduess: The Palatines may be poor enough, but their coming hither can never make us rich (as has too often been learnedly worded) when we had so many before we could not tell what to do with them.

I know there was great numbers of poor people in England before these Palatines came over; whose employment will be rather increased than diminished, if the vast ground of this nation be cultivated by these strangers.

This is the common notion I confess of both high and low, but how it will consist with our negligence for many years last past, in not providing for our own poor, is still a paradox. The land of Egypt (as a late worthy senator very learnedly observed), felt the sad effects of this superabundant charity, for while the strangers of the land lived in plenty in the best of the country, the natives themselves wanted bread for their families; insomuch, that they were not only forced to sell their lands to the foreigner Joseph but themselves also.

H. D.

E. T.

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Since you bring Scripture to support your uncharitableness, did not the
Gibeonites dive in the land of Canaan among the Israelites, without any
disturbance or evil effects?

Yes; but then they were made hewers of wood and drawers of water to
the people and not equal in freedom, trade, liberty and property as our
strangers are like to be. There was a time when a certain people (pretty
well known to us since) who addressed our Queen then, as these Palatines
do now, under the notion of poor distresses, but as soon as they were set
on horse back (I won't say they Road to the Devil) but if possible they
have since gone beyond him for policy, whatever became of honesty; and
so often have ontwitted somebody, that they now care for nobody, and
think themselves above everybody.

H. D. I know your meaning by your gapeing but I hope you wont compare those
distressed people to the greatest Commonwealth in Europe?

E. T.

No, I only mention this by the by, to let the world see that some folks
can play the Hypocrite one day and upon occasion, the Tyrant the next.
Spittle-Fields and So-hoe have hundreds nay thousands of instances of
this sad truth, who were our humble servants at the threshold, but as soon
as they got possession of the house, they became our masters and so are
like to continue to the end of the chapter.

H. D. There's some difference between a Papist sent out of France and a Protest-
ant drove out of Germany, the first for knavery and pride, and the latter
for honesty and poverty.

E. T. I wish there ben't too much knavery on both hands, whatever there may
be of Honesty and Poverty in either; otherwise, why are not multiplicity
of hands as necessary and beneficial to one prince as to another? And if
it be answered above, that the princes from whence the wanderers came,
have too many poor to maintain without 'em, the same argument (with
much more Reason) holds still good on our side, unless they would bring
along with them good store of money'd men (instead of beggars) to pay
them their wages for building and planting in this imaginary English
America, otherwise I am afraid, after the hot fit of foreign charity is
over, they may be as hard put to it to find masters to employ them, or at
least good Pay-masters, as some of our countrymen have done for above
twenty years last past; who instead of wooden shoes to pull on their feet,
could hardly get any victuals to put in their bellies, without being pity'd
or taken care of, and this much nearer home than France or Germany.
H. D. Well you have said enough and perhaps too much for some people's ap-
probation; and therefore since the Generous government have thought fit
to give them such Plentiful Relief in their Canvass Hutches, both on
Black Heath and Camberwell, let us adjourn these disputes thither and
view their innocent industry in their respective encampments.

E. T. Hey day! here's a Windmill on top of a tent, I hope it is not a reflection
on their benefactors? I know some people have windmills in their noodles,
as well as magots in their brains; but this can never be the meaning on't,
I rather think the canvass sails denotes the mutability of Fortune, who
sets some up, and some down; making some merry at others madness,
while some laugh at others sadness and so the world goes round.

H. D. 'Tis nothing Sir, but their innocent diversion to prevent idleness; pray don't wrest their diligence to any sinister Interpretation.

E. T. No, by no means; but methinks their weddings are as different from that of an English Christian as leaping o'er a knife and fork, where a sword is wanting, from the Primitive Ceremony of a yea and nay coupling in Wedlock.

H. D. 'Tis otherwise with them in their churches, this may serve only to stop
the appetite till a more convenient season.

E. T. Their buryings of children resemble a kitchen-stuff woman, going to the
Tallow Chandlers with a Tub full of Grease, tho' much merrier, for they
sing all the way. As for their minister and his way of Teaching, with the
Blacksmith just by him making nails to clinch his arguments; the cook

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dressing victuals, and sutlers Tents; with several other Things, which for brevity sake, are here put all together, in imitation of the Traders Medley, being resolved my readers should have a lumping half-penny worth of High German Rarities.

H. D. But, Sir, without jesting, do but behold these three pretty little Infants in their primitive purity, in the very view of the parson's pulpit; being a certain argument that they will be soon brought within the pale of the church.

E. T.

More likely within the Tale of a Tub in a little time. But hold? here's your High German Performers, a cap made of rushes, in imitation of a bird cage, thereby representing a twofold mystery; the one to lull us asleep (rushes being of that nature) while like a bird, we are caught in our own nets and confined within the cage of sleepy negligence and unthinking carelessness.

H. D. You may make what reflections you please, on these poor people's Diligence and Industry, but as sure as the effects of laziness cloaths any person in rags, so sure does a diligent hand make rich.

E. T. I remember it was the saying of an eminent Pick-Pocket (who long since made his laudable exit at the Treble Conveniency, as the Quaker words it) that a wagging hand gets a penny; but in the reverse of this I say, a hand may wag too much, and a man may be too diligent, even in a lawful calling, if he kills himself with working, drown himself to save another, or the like; therefore in an evil employ, if a man does anything, he does too much, and consequently had better do nothing than do mischief: For though a diligent hand may make a man rich, it can never make him happy unless it be in a lawful and commendable employ.

H. D. You have a further Reach in your last meaning and discourse, than my mean capacity and meaner understanding can fathom. However be it as it will I heartily wish well to these Strangers and that they were well settled in this nation; and since our neighbors, the Dutch, have thought fit to follow our example in naturalizing foreigners, we ought cheerfully like well disposed Christians, contribute toward their support and sit down contented with what our wise superiors have done; not doubting but in the long run it will tend to the welfare and happiness of Prince and People.

E. T.

Your Christian Temper I must needs commend,

To love your country, as you love your friend,

By praying for their happy settlement:

No matter for an Englishman's consent,

While they with one accord join hand in hand.

We'll pray for them, but wish 'em out o' the Land.- Finis.

1710.

THE STATE OF THE PALATINES FOR FIFTY YEARS PAST TO THIS

I.

II.

III.

PRESENT TIME CONTAINING.

An account of the Principality of the Palatinate; and of the Barbarities and Ravages committed by order of the French King upon the Inhabitants; Burning to the ground a great number of their most famous Cities, and throwing the bones of their Emperors, Princes, and Prelates out of their Tombs, etc. The case of the Palatines, published by themselves, and humbly offerd to the Tradesmen of England With a list of them, and the Trades which the men are brought up to.

The humble Petition of the Justices of Middlesex to her Majesty on their behalf with her Majesty's order thereupon and an abstract of the Brief graciously granted for their subsistance.

IV. A letter about settling and employing them in other countries.