An order of the Rt. Hon. the Lords of the Privy Council,
refering the Petition of the Governour and Company of the
Colony of Connecticut, to the Lords of the Council of Trade.

Att the Court at White Hall, the 29 January, 1694.

By the Lords of their Majesties most Hon'ble Privy Councill——

Upon reading the annexed Petition of the Governour and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New England, in America, presented by their Agent. Major Gen'1 Fitz Jon Winthrop, complaining of the proceeding of Collonel Benjamin Fletcher, Governour of New York, in relation to the said Colony, and praying to be relieved; it is this day ordered in Councill, that it be, and it is hereby refered to the Right Honnourable the Lords of the Comittee of trade and plantations, to examine, and consider of the matter of the said petition, and to report to this board, what their Lordships conceive fit for his Majesty to do therein.

RICHARD COLLINGE.