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ofFefed me what prefent Money I had OGcafioTi 

 for, and farther affured me, that they would give 

 me Thirty Pounds per Annum above the Salary 

 due by Law ; which promife they moft honoura- 

 bly kept to the laft hour of my ftay. This Salary 

 is Sixteen thoufand pound weight of Mufcovado, 

 or coarfe Sugar annually, Three Pounds, or Five 

 hundred weight of Sugar for a Funeral Sermon, 

 and Twelve Shillings and Six-pence for every 

 Chriftening, Marriage and Burial. But their 

 generous temper would never fuffer them to give 

 me fo little. N. B, That an Englifh Shilling goes 

 for Eighteen-pence there, and Ffrnch, Spafiijh and 

 Po7'ti(giieze Money bears pretty near the fame 

 proportion in value. The King gives Twenty 

 Pounds to us out of the Exchequer, to defray the 

 Charges of our Voyage thither ; and I have often 

 heard fome of our conliderate Gentlemen declare^ 

 That provided they might have the liberty of 

 choofing their own Reftors, they would freely 

 augment our Salaries ; and further. That if the 

 general run of my Lord Chancellour's Livings, 

 were to be difpofed of to JVeft India Clergymen, 

 after four or five years ilay in that fultry Climate, 

 it would be a moft noble Benefadion, as well as 

 vaft encouragement to us to travel abroad. But 

 alas! That Scheme is altogether impradticable, 

 as Great Perfons Sons, Relations, and Depend- 

 ants mufl firft be obliged. For the encourage- 

 ment 



