And to satisfy you of the reasonableness in what I offer, I beheve there has not six pubhc taxes been laid on this County by the Assembly this fifteen years past, but I have been at the proportioning of, and when the places in Rye parish pay =£50. the town in West Chester parish were allotted ,£120. and there are two places more, which both together are one tliird as big as Rye Parisli which ai-e now in neither of them.

And now I am on this subject, it comes in course to make out what I told you in my former letters, viz. that tiiere is no parish in the government ]jut wliat is able to pay twice as much as they do. For Rye parish which is not by one half so large as the least parish estabhslied by law in the government here, since my living here mahitained two dissenting Ministers, viz. one at Rye and Mamaroneck, and one at Bedford ; and gave the former £50. and the latter =£40. a year, wliich I tliink makes it out very plain what I have offered on that head ; and you may be assured I shall omit no opportunity of serving the Society therein. But the work must be done in a great measm-e by the Minister's taking pains, and bringing the people into a good opinion of the Churcli, for though tlie reason hereof is very plain, it must be a business of time to effect it.