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In urging upon Lord North a "plan for religious and literary 

 institution in Nova Scotia," ^- the clergymen of the Church of Eng- 

 land were prompted by political as well as religious motives. They 

 pointed out that "The influence of religion on political institutions 

 as well as on the moral conduct of men, has been universally acknow- 

 ledged by the best and worst of men. Experience has also shown the 

 conformity and eligibility of certain modes of worship to particular 

 forms of government, and that of the Episcopal (abstracted from its 

 antiquity and apostolic sanction) has been thought peculiarly adapted 

 to the British Constitution." 



"Besides the ample proof which the history of the nation has 

 afforded of this circumstance, it has been particularly conspicuous 

 in the origin and progress of the convulsions of the country. There 

 was not only a considerable majority of loyal subjects in almost every 

 Episcopal congregation from Carolina to Nova Scotia (a few influences 

 perhaps in Virginia alone excepted), but some were found which 

 scarcely produced one disaffected form of character, whilst the clergy 

 were permitted to exercise their f unctions. '"^^ 



Doubtless the Rev. Charles Inglis and his fellow memorialists 

 had in mind what King's College, New York, founded in 1754, and 

 the College of William and Mary of Virginia, founded in 1660 (the 

 second oldest college in the United States), had accomplished for the 

 Church of England and the British connection. In each, the Church 

 of England had a privileged position. Its liturgy was used; some of 

 the officials were members of that Church, and in Virginia sub- 

 scription to the Articles was required. Each had been a centre of 

 British influence and because of this had become so obnoxious to the 

 revolutionaries that King's College was transformed into Columbia, 

 and William and Mary supplanted by the University of Virginia, 

 established by Thomas Jefferson, an alumnus of William and Mary. 



To accentuate the British connection, the Canadian colleges 

 notwithstanding the provincial statutes under which provision had 

 been made for them, applied for Royal Charters. These charters 

 were granted to King's College, Windsor, ^^ in 1802; to McGill College 

 in 1821 ; to King's College, Toronto,!^ in 1827. In 1828 the College 

 of New Brunswick became King's College, Fredericton, under Royal 

 Charter. ^^ 



12N.S. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. 6, p. 125. 

 "Hind: King's College, p. 26. 

 "Bethune, p. 109. 



i^Hannay: Wilmot and Tilley, p. 50. The Fredericton Charter a copy of 

 Toronto's. 



