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who are to anfwer for them, the clergy- 

 men in the country commonly take a fuf- 

 flcient number of licences and certificates, 

 which are ready printed, with blanks left 

 for the names ; they give them occa- 

 fionally, and get the common money, one 

 pound, five {hillings, for each of them, 

 befides fomething for their trouble. The 

 money that they have collected, they de- 

 liver to the governor as foon as they come 

 to town, together with the certificates, 

 which are figned by two men, as above- 

 mentioned ; they then take again as many 

 licences as they think iuflicient : from 

 hence we may conceive that the governors 

 in the Englijh North American colonies, be- 

 sides their falaries, have very considerable 

 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 fach as have not yet any fettled place 

 of abode. Hence it frequently happens that 

 when a clergyman has married fuch a 



couple, 



• Though it is very defirable, that the members of the 

 church of England may enjoy the fame religious liberty in 

 America as the reft of their fellow-fubjedls, and have 

 every part of their religious eiiablifhment among them- 

 felves, and that therefore bifhops might be introduced in 

 America, it is however to be feared this will prove one of 

 the obftacles to the introducing of Englijh bifhops in that 

 part of the world. 



