This, I chose to do before any blood was shed-- while people's tempers were yet cool ; lest if the instruction had been deferred till some Mow was struck, the acts of misrepresentation, which had been used from the beginning, might influence their passions and hurry them into criminal acts before reason could resume its

a Society's abstract from 31st February, 1772, to 19th February, 1773.

6 ditto ditto from 17th February, 1775, to 16th February, 1776.

e Ditto ditto from 16th February, 1776. to 21st February, 1777.

d The following extracts are from a letter of John Adams to Dr. J. Morse, dated Quincy, 2d Dec, 1SI5 :-- " That the apprehension of Episcopacy contributed, fifty years ago, as much as any other cause, to arouse the attention, not only nf'the enquiring mind, but the common people, and urge them to close thinking on the constitutional authority of Parliament over the colonies.". •' This, nevertheless, was a fact as certain as any in the history of North America. The objection was not merely to the ofllc" of a Bishop-- though even that was dreaded-- but to the authority of Parliament, on which ir must be founded."--" Life and Works of John Adams," by Chas. Francis Adams; vol. X., p. 1S5.

HISTORY OF THE COUNT V OF WESTCHESTER.

place and tend to the obligations of religion. And blessed be God, I have this satisfaction, that the Church people in all my parishes have almost unanimously (there being but three or four exceptions) maintained their loyalty from the first, for which many of them suffered greatly.