6 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
tion. Prayer being ended, to the intente that as we had began at 
God Almighty, so we might proceed with awfull and due respecte 
towards his lieutenant our most gratious and dread soveraigne; all 
the Burgesses were entreated to retyre themselves into the body of 
the Churche, which being done, before they were fully admitted 
they were called in order and by name, and so every man (none 
staggering at it) tooke the oathe of Supremacy, and then entered 
the Assembly—at Captain Ward the Speaker took exception, as at 
one that without any commission or authority had seated himselfe 
either, upon the Companies and then his plantation could not be 
lawful or on Captain Marten’s lande and so he was but a limbe or 
member of him and so there could be but two Burgesses for all. 
So Captain Ward was commanded to absente himselfe till such 
time as the Assembly had agreed was fitt for him to doe.” 
“After much debate,” it was resolved to admit Captain Warde 
to a seat because of his personal services to the colony provided he 
should thereafter and before the next general assembly procure a 
commission lawfully to establish and plant himself as the chiefs of | 
the other plantations had done. 
The burgesses of Captain Martin were then challenged by the 
governor on the ground that he had in his patent a clause which 
exempted him from the general laws of the colony, but especially 
those of the general assembly. Martin declined to waive this 
clause in his patent and his burgesses were accordingly excluded. 
Upon a “complainte”’ being made against Captain Martin because 
Ensign Harrison, in command of one of his shallops, had with 
force of arms taken corn from the Indians, this was adjudged in 
violation of the laws of nations, and it was ordered that in case 
Martin could not thoroughly answer the charge “he should from 
henceforth” take leave of the Governor as other men and should 
putt in security that his people shall comitte no suche outrage any- 
more.’ Martin was then summoned to attend before them being 
addressed as ‘‘ our very loving friend.” 
“These obstacles being removed” the speaker made a short 
address on the occasion of their meeting, which done he read the 
commission for establishing the “ Counsell of Estate and the Gen- 
