BOOK II. CHAP. IX. 237 



effe^l, as a pofitive denial. The ftatute, 21 Henry VIII. excu/cs 

 from refidence in threecafes; ift, the want of adwelling-houfe, or 

 the inconvenience of one too fmall, or mean, to receive and ac- 

 commodate the re6lor's family: adly, ficknefs, or where, by ad- 

 vice of a phyfician, a removal into another air is, bond fide ^ ne- 

 ceflary for recovery of health; 3dly, employment in the king's 

 fervice. In Jamaica, the juftices and veftry of each parifh, where 

 there is no parfonage-houfe, are required, either to hire one of 

 ^o I. per annum rent, or to purchafe or build one of 500/. value. 

 Under this limitation, which is fo unequal, it may be fuppofed 

 that they cannot buy or build a very convenient habitation witli 

 fuitable offices. The fum allowed ought to have been Soo/. 

 which would have held a nearer proportion to the fum allowed for 

 hiring; 50/. being little more than the annual intereft of 800/. 

 In general, they are well lodged, except in thofe parifhes where 

 the re£tor's immorality, or bad difpofition, has created him fo many 

 enemies, that his flock would rather he fliould live any where than 

 among them. The fecond difpenfation, in regard to ill health, 

 and change of air for recovery, has always been readily indulged 

 here in its full latitude. As to the third, the chaplains attending 

 the governor, or the council, or aflembly, are excufed ; the former 

 at all times; the two latter, during the feffions. But the fame 

 minifter having ulually been chaplain both to the governor and 

 council, and holding the living of Spanifli Town, where the go- 

 vernor refides, and the council meet, no inconvemence has hitherto- 

 refulted. But pluralities are not allowed here; and, if ever they 

 fhould be attempted, the people will be greatly incenfed, having 

 feverely felt the inconveniencies arifmg from the combination of 

 many places in one perfon. 



The teftimonials required to be produced, before indudion into 

 any living here, are, that the candidate be qualified according to the 

 canons of the church of England, bj having taken deacon's and 

 prieft's orders ; which teftimonials mufl, after the governor's ap- 

 probation, be recorded in the fecretary's office. They are not ta 

 celebrate any marriage without banns have been three times pub- 

 lifiied in the parifh-church to which the parties belong, or without 

 a hcencc from the governor, under penalty of icc/. By a rule 



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