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shew a sufficient Authority you are and I do hereby require you 

 to desist Acting in any pubhck Capacity, and remain. 



Your Friend and Servant, 

 Anthony Brockholls.' 



Governor Carteret to Captain Brockholls 



(From "Grants and Concessions," p. 687.) 



Elizabeth-Town 28th July, 1681 

 Capt. Brockholls, 



Sir, I have received yours of the 26th Instant, by Mr. Bullen, 

 and Mr. Laprery. I have a Power sufficient to Act as Governor 

 of East New-Jersey, and am no more bound to give you and 

 your Council an Account thereof, then you are obliged to give me 

 an Account of yours : When you do produce to me by what legal 

 Authority you are so confident to controul my Proceedings, I will 

 shew you mine to contradict it. In the mean Time I will send 

 your uncivil Answer for England, where your late Governor and 

 his Councils unjust Proceedings, are already disowned by your 

 Master, and condemned to be illegal by all in General. I did send 

 you a Copy of his Royal Highness Grant attested by the Secretary 

 of this Province, of which you seem to take no Notice of, nor 

 of my demand of the Surrender of Staten-Island, unto me, by 

 which I conclude a denial, I remain 



Your Friend and Servant, 

 Ph. Carteret. 



Governor Carteret to Lady Elizabeth Carteret 



(From " Grants and Concessions," p. 687.) 

 Madam, 



Your Honour will see by the inclosed Letter of Capt. Brock- 

 holls, Commander in Chief of New-York Government, under 



'' Anthony Brockholls was left by Governor Andros in charge of the 

 Government of New York, on leaving for England, in January 1681. Ed. 



