254 PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

But to lay the Mistery of this Iniquity, for so it is, a little more open, the Reverend Person so often mentioned in whose eyes the best actions were crimes, took much exception at my putting in repair Her Majesty's Chappell in the Forffe sent me by M'" Sharp some messages about that matter, which for the reverence I bear his wholy function I choose not to repeat. When I iirst entered upon that design I acquainted him with it and he made not then the least objection to it, which made those messages V\e more surprizing. I sent for him and reasoned with him upon that head, from the Decency, Expediency and necessity of it, that Chappell being one of the oldest Houses of Prayer in the place, tho' for some time past a Eear Garden, I urged fliat the souldiers had no room nor place in the Church neither was it safe to march the Garrison so far from the Fort, and that Her Majesty paid a Chaplain for that particular purpose, and had graciously bestowed Plate, Books & other Fui^niture for the use of it ; but all this served only to plunge him into a fit of Passion @ me into a deep astonishment, I referred him to the Right Rev<^ the Lord Bishop of London, that most worthy Prelate in a letter to me injoyued me to bear with his Infirmities whilst he endeavoured to set him right, which is the conduct I have hitlierto nicely observed with relation to that Gentleman. He having received advice from my Lord of London declared to every body that he was blamed by that Bishop in every thing or (in his own words) that he was cast in the Bishops Court, but that if all the Bishops of England were of the same opinion w*^ that noble Prelate, he would be of his own still but for the futiu'e would not meddle with tlie Chappell or any other of the Governors aifairs.