salary to the rate of -£50- That seasonable relief of their equitable regard hath rescued me from several incouveniencies, who had rendered the maintenance of my family difficult and uneasy. I was in a perfect resolution to continue my service, trusting in the Lord, that when my circumstances should come plainly and truly to be known by the Honorable Society, their piety should resolve something for my relief, of which you have been pleased to iufonu me, as also of one hundred French Common Prayer Books, who came not with your letter, but are come since in very good order. That new token of the pious care of the Honorable Society for our company, hath renewed our thanks and blessings upon their charity and rebuked the temeranious suspicious suggested by our contradiction that our labor and confidence should come to nothing, being abandoned and left to our weakness, but thanks be to God, who hath rebuked the scorns and relieved our simple and sincere endeavors, by the continuation of the Honorable Society's benevolence and charity, as also by the wise and serious concurrence of his Excellency, our Governor, Colonel Hunter, who in this affair, as in all others, hath showed the regard of a grave and pious ruler, who, with a philosophic patience, hears and considers everything, and with sound judgment declares his mind among the contending parties, and with a constant equity, countenances by his authority the right and lawful claim of his protection. These favourable junctures of Providence have produced effects answerable, constancy and thankfulness of our people, and a daily increase of consenters to the Church. By my antecedent accounts, the Honourable Society hath been informed of the number of our communicants, which hath been from the beginning of our conformity, four times in the year, between thirty and forty communicants of our town, sometimes above forty, but this last Easter there was fifty communicants ; three families reunited to the flock, which were the most sober and sensible persons of our disturbed inhabitants ; those who remain yet backward, showing rather the humour of seditious, obstinate disturbers, than the spirit of sound, religious Christians; but I live peaceably and civily with them, knowing that the most forward may, by the grace of God, turn docile ; as I have with patience and moderation waited for others, so shall I continue to do for the few remaining back, ready to help them for their own good and the full and perfect gathering of the flock.