QUAKERS AND MORAVIANS. 1017

Says it was the Saviours pleasure lie should be a Minister has no other Learning but the Bible in High Dutch.

That Boehler was at Schocamico about a year And Count Zentzendorf Iiad been up tliere before he Came.

Being asked how they being Strangers and Forrigners dared to come into this Country and reside among the Indians without acquainting the Government with their Design and having their permission to Stay

Says his Church sent him and bid him Go and he obeyed his Brethren

That he prays as St Paul hath written for all in Authority and for King George by name

He then was required to take the Oaths but refused Saying it was against his Conscience to swear.

Gudlop Buydner being called in and Examined said.

Tliat he was born in lower Silesia and is about 29 years old and has been almost three years in this province That ho came with Capt. Lyng from London That he was brought up a Wool- ^veaver (or Clothier) but is now a preacher of the Gospell to the Lidians That he was ordained by Ludawick Count Zenzendorif and Bishop David Nichman, is a priest of the Moravian Church, and had tliose orders in Ifebruary last was two Years at Oly a Town 60 Miles from Philadelphia.

That when he first came over, he spent his own Money, since when he has worked for his Support & been supply ed from the Congregation as his otlier Brethren before Examined.