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*,* The Clergyman above objected to was commissioned by Gov. Clinton 24 Feb., 1748.

LiTRA A.

Most Reverend most Learned and most Honoured Pastor.

Your most reverend & Honoured Letter Missive of the 31 ^t of August last (which I have this day received) has been the more agreeable unto me as it gave me the Honour of your most Reverend acquaintance and an opportunity to give a Testimony of Truth in the Cause you mention to me which I hope will be of service to the Chiu'ch.

It is not known to me (wlio by Grace am in the 16*^ year of my assistance in our Ducal Consistory) Neither is known to my Colleagues here (with most part of whom I have had occasion to discourse & to Communicate your letter to) either in earlier or

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later years that here has been a Minister of the Gospel who Caird himself by the name of John Ludwig Hofgutli or of any of the Circumstances whicli you have been pleased to write to us of So tliat the whole of it seems to Turn out a fallacious Conterfeit & a fait thing of him.