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stood any thing of learning & yet take upon them to be Dis-
pencers of the word & to Administer Sacrament of Baptisme
& sow seeds of Divission amongst the People & noe law Pro-
vided for the Suppression of such in this Province soe th^t here
is a great Necessitie of able & learned men to confut the gaine
sayer espetially having soe many Profest enemies as the Popish
Priests & Jesuits are, who are incoraged & Provided for & the
Quaker takes care & provides for those th^t are Speakers in
their conventicles, but noe care is taken or Provision made for
the building up Christians in the Protestant Religion by means
whereof not only many Dayly fall away either to Popery,
Quakerism or Phanaticisme but alsoe the lords day is pro-
phaned, Religion despised, & all notorious vices committed soe
th^t it is become a Sodom of uncleaness & a Pest house of in-
iquity, I doubt not but Yo^r Grace will take it into Consideration
& do Yo^r utmost for our Eternall welfaire, & now is the time
th^t Yo^r Grace may be an instrument of a universall reformation
amongst us with greatest facillity Cacillius Lord barron Balti-
more, & absolut Proprietor of Maryland being dead & Charles
lord Barron of Baltimore & our Governour being bound for
England this Year (as I am informed) to Receive a farther con-
firmation of th^t Province from his Majestie at w^ch time I Doubt
but Yo^r Grace may soe prevaile with him as th^t a mainten-
ance for a Protestant ministry may be established as well
in this Province as in Virginia, Barbados & all other his
Majesties Plantations in west indies & then there will be
incoragement for able men to come amongst us, & th^t some
Person may have power to examine all such Ministers as shall
be admitted into any County or perish in w^l Diocis & by w^t
Bishop they were Ordained, & to Exhibit their lrs of Orders
to testify the Same, as yet (I think the Generallitie of the people
may be brought by Degrees to a uniformitie, Provided we
have more ministers th^t were truly Conformable to our mother
the Church & non but such Suffer to preach amongst us, as
for my own part (God is my witness) I have done my utmost
indeavour in order there unto, & shall (by God's assistance)
whiles I have a being here give manifest Proof of my faithfull
Obedience to the Canons & Constitutions of our Sacred
Mother, Yet one thing cannot be obtained here (viz) Conse-
cration of Churches & Church Yards to the end th^t Christians
might be Decently buried together, whereas now they bury in
the several Plantations where they lived, unless Yo^r Grace
thought it Sufficient to give a Dispensation to some Pious
minister (together with ther maner & form) to do the same,
& Confident I am th^t yo^u will not be wanting in any thing th'
may tend most to God's Glorie & the goods of the Church by

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