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the different incumbents liaving been either unwilling or unable, by 

 reafon of the expence, to diflurb the pofieflion of thofe perfons 

 who have occupied it; though it will I'carcely admit of a doubt, 

 but that it was meant as a glebe to be annexed to the recSlory in 

 perpetuuiii, there being no other afllgned to the purpofe, The pre- 

 lent rector is Dodtor Lindfay ; the ftipend is 300/. currency j^e^r 

 annum: but the whole profit of the living has been eftimated double 

 that lum at ]eaft ; for, as the duty is great, the occafional fees arc 

 conliderable- 



The chapel ftands on the South fidje_^f_d}eJ"Quaj;ejiJiear jthe go- 

 vernor's. houfe. It -is built much in the ftyle of the common-halls 

 belonging to the inns of court in London : the wails are crowned 

 with battlements ; and on the centre of the roof is a cupola and 

 clock. It was founded jult after the earthquake of 1692, in a re- 

 ligious panic, during the adminiftratioa of-....Sir.,W.iIUam Beefton. 

 How long it remained confecrated to pious ufes is uncertain; but 

 the founder, as if conicious that a wicked race of people would fuc- 

 ceed, who, forgetful of that calamity, might incline to profane it, 

 caufed an inlcription, cut in marble, to be fixed up on one end of 

 the building; which denounces a moft terrible imprecation againft 

 any perfon or perfons who fliould dare to put it to any other ufe than 

 that for which it was originally intended, Notwithftanding this, 

 it was afterwards converted into an arfenal of fmall-arms, chiefly 

 for the free Negroes and Mulattoes. In the year 1760, it con- 

 tained two thoufand fix hundred and fcventy-two ftand of firelocks, 

 and three hundred and three brace of piflols : it generally has a 

 ftand of about three thoufand ; for keeping of which in good 

 order, the aflembly pay an annual Hilary to an armourer. Adjoining 

 to this ftrutSture is the guard-houfe ; where a party of regulars arc 

 every day on duty to attend the governor. The governor's, or, as 

 it is more ufually called, the king's houfe occupies the whole Weft 

 fide of the fquare. The plan of this pile was defigned and ap- 

 proved of under the adminiftration of lieutenant-governor Moore ; 

 but the building was not completed till the arrival of his ex- 

 cellency governor Lyttelton iii.,j,.^,4ar' It was erefted, at the fole 

 charge of the ifland, under the infpedion of Mr. Ciafkell, then 

 engineer of Jamaica, and defigned for the ufual place of refidcnce 



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