I have no more to add but my most sincere & hearty prayers to the Lord to bless prosper & keep my most honored Patrons and when the time of their departure lience shall come may God who is the rewarder of those who make it their study and delight to enlarge Christ's Kingdom here take 'em to tlie eternally happy enjoyment of himself in Heaven is the prayer of Honored Sir &c &.«

* TnosPoYER.

^TIIE SAME TO THE SAME.

Jamaica 15th Jany 1716-17 Honored Sir

My suit at Law for the recovery of my Salary here is as backward as my last gave you an account, so that I have nothing new to add on this head but that one of my lawyers is dead which put a stop to it last Term & what progress will be made in it the next I cannot tell, you shall be acquainted of the proceeding by every opportunity.

The continuance of my troubles (which alas have no prospect of an end) and the tediousness of this law^suit have almost wearied me out, I j&nd a daily decay in myself thro' the continual

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fatigue I undergo in tliis large parish Avliicli consists (as I have formerly observed) of Three towns which I serve alternately & how I have discharged my duty to the Souls I am entrusted with is well known to my good God and Great Judge k Axi'll I hope be testified by some of my people.