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to be just to your interests, should meet with
greater difficulties in the discharge of His Majesty's
service than those who have gone before me." He
declared it his firm intention that there should be
no more misapplication of the public money, a
veiled attack upon Fletcher's grants of land and
privileges which had become a public scandal. He
would, he said, pocket none of the money himself
nor permit any embezzlement of it by others and
promised exact accounts to be laid before the
Assembly "when and as often as you require.''
The Assembly passed a vote of thanks and voted
a six years' revenue. Apparently everything was
. auspicious; but the seed of discord was already
sown by Bellomont's early espousal of the Leis-
lerian cause, which was in effect the cause of the
common people.

In the Ecclesiastical Records of the State an
account of the disinterment and reburial of the
mutilated remains of Leisler and of his son-in-law
Milborne shows the determination of Bellomont to
make what reparation was possible, in addition to
the removal of attainder, for the injustice done.
The document closes with these words:

Yesterday, October £0, [1698] the remains of Comman-
der Jacob Leisler and of Jacob Milborne [eight years and