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come up to town for every licence, and to. bring 

 the men with them who are to anfwer for them, 

 the clergymen in the country commonly take a 

 fufficient number of licences and certificates, 

 which are ready printed, with blanks left <for 

 the names -, they give them occafionally, and 

 get the common money, one pound five (hil- 

 lings, for each of them, befides fomething for 

 their trouble. The money that they have col- 

 letted, they deliver to the governor as foon as 

 they come to town, together with the certificates, 

 which are figned by two men, as above-men- 

 tioned ; they then take again as many licences 

 as they think fuflicient : from hence' we may con- 

 ceive that the governors in the Englifh North 

 American colonies, befides their falaries, have very 

 co n fid er able revenues *. 



THERE is a great mixture of people of all 

 forts in thefe colonies, partly of fuch as are lately 

 come over from Europe, and partly of fuch as 

 have net yet any fettled place of abode. Hence 

 it frequently happens that when a clergyman has 

 married fuch a couple, the bridegroom fays he 

 has no money at prefent, but would pay the fee 

 at the firft opportunity : however he goes oft 

 with his wife, and the clergyman never gets his 

 due. This proceeding has given occafion to a 

 cuftom which is now common in Maryland. 



* Though it is very defireable, that the members of the church 

 of England may enjoy the fame religious liberty in America as the 

 reft of" their fellow -fubjeds, and have every part of their religious 

 eilabliihment among themfelves, and that therefore bifhops 

 might be introduced in America, it is however to be feared th s 

 will prove one of the obftacles to the introducing of Erglijb bi- 

 fhops in thnt pare of the world. 



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