Lyne--when in New York waited on his Excellency to know the result of our _ petition, and we have the pleasure of hearing that it was laid before the Council where it met with a favourable reception, agreeable to which the Charter will shortly be sent up with his Excellencies subscription money and Church furniture. Mr Lyne has also procured a Clerk to officiate in the Church, who we are persuaded will answer the Character given him by several Gentlemen of Credit in New York. We conclude with craving a continuance of your protection of our Church and its Liberties, and subscribe ourselves Honé Sir Your most Obt & Hum: Servants J W Brown Ricup CuLLen StepHen Duptey. Cuares Dogan Marruew Lyne.

REV? M® CHAMBERLAIN TO SIR W¥ JOHNSON.

Conajohare 29th Dec? 1766

May it please your Honour

I but lately received your Honours Letter of the 8» instant, am sorry tho have been the occasion of so much Trouble to your 'Honour whose Indulgence and Condescention I have so often experiencéed, and stand corrected with Pleasure.

I am surprised that the Rev4 Brown should suspect that by privatly informing him of what he was said to have done I

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intended to intimate the misconduct of those in whose Presence it was said he did-it. I never doubted may it please your Hont but that his Exelency the Govenor had a Right to ask and obtain M* Browns assistance in Conferring his Name upon whome he pleasd and this without transgressing the strictest Rules of Christianity, and was far from thinking that his Exelency or any Gentleman in the Civil Government would interpose his authority with a clergyman to oblige him to rebaptize Children because they were first baptized by ministers of another . Denomination. Nor was I may it please your Hon' suspicious -- that the Gentlemen of the establishd Church Clergy gave them-* selves or others too much Trouble to bring into Disrepute other religious Persuasions.