Evans thus writes in a letter to the Bishop of London, under date of October 17ih, 1704. "This comes by the hands of the ingenious Mr. George Muirson to receive holyorders from your Lordship, by the approbation of liis Excellency my Lord Cornbury. I find that he is very well beloved and esteemed by all sorts of people, a man ef a very sober and blameless conversation. He seems to be indued with great humility of mind, and has the character of being very prudent in his conduet. I give him this recommendation not to gratify himself, nor any body else, but because 1 sincerely believe he may be very instrumental of doing much good in the church."!^

Mr. Muirson having been ordained, was appointed to the mission of Rye. In his first report to the Society he states " that he had a very great congregation every Sunday and that those were his hearers who never were in a Church of England congregation before. Though the people were of almost all persuasions, he had admitted into the church, by baptism, eighty persons young and old ; hundreds however in the parish remain unbaptized.*=

He further remarks to the Society, " I have lately been in the Government of Connecticut, where I observe some people well aiFecied to the church, for those that are near come to ray parish on Sabbath days ; so that I am assured an itinerant missionary might do great service in that province. Some of their ministers have privately told me that had we a bishop among us, they would conform and receive holy orders, from which as well as on all the continent, the necessity of a bishop will plainly appear."'!