Coll Hunter. I humbly conceive that no person that has y^ presentation to a Benefice can doe it twice. So that if an unqualified person be presented he that presented liim cannot afterwards prefer another, this was the Case of M"^ Hubbard who being a Dissenter was not qualified to accept for which reason my Lord Cornbury gave Induction to M^ Urquhart & y^ Assembly by y® said last act declare it to be vahd.

Tliat M"" Macknesh has been lately called by y® Vestry &c. •but by his being a Dissenter was not qualified to accept & therefore M"^ Poyer is Inducted by power from his Exc'y & being so Inducted is Intituled to every thing that belonged to his predecessor M^' Urquhart & consequently to y® Sallary whicli is now about to be appropriated to a Dissenting Minister. The first act for Settling y« Ministry lay dormant w'^ us 9 years because we' had no Church of England Minister to reap the Ijenefit of it. Its lying dormant so long is a plaine Indication of ye opinion of the Dissenters themselves in favour of the Church, flbr if that act was made for the Dissenters (wliich they doe now against ail reason assert) why did they never mal^e use of it in all that time & thereby put an end to the continued & endless contentions they have had with their ministers many of which are not yet paid by them.

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