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In the meantime the Chancellor sends the 

 Archbishop a copy of the rules and orders of 

 the society at Carlisle, and apologizes very 

 handsomely for himself, and the rest who were 

 concerned with him. And Archdeacon Nicol- 

 son gives him an account of an usual agreement 

 at Brampton, in the same diocese, between the 

 neighbouring clergy/ and a dissenting minister. 



To both which he answers in the following 

 letter to the Archdeacon. 



" Good Mr. Archdeacon, 



** I hope by that time I received your second 

 letter, my answer to your first had reached you. 

 I believe you will not think me too favourable 

 to these new societies, but in truth, as the state 

 of things is among us, I do not yet find reason 

 to alter my sentiments. 



*' As for that you mention at Brampton, where 

 the vicars have obliged themselves to take their 

 turns with the minister of a dissenting congre- 

 gation at a weekly lecture ; if the meaning of 

 that be that they are to take their turns in 

 preaching at his meeting, or that he is to take his 

 turn in preaching at their churches, or lastly 

 that they are to go and hear him preach in his turn 

 at the conventicle, I say, if any of these things be 

 meant in that article (and what other meaning 

 it can have I cannot find out,) I think the thing 



