We had good hope that some of the more approved & experienced among the Clergy in your parts, who from their knowledge of the Indians, & their acquaintance in the neighbourhood, & especially from that countenance which you would naturally give them, might become -- likely to have the best Success, would not have been unwilling to have taken this appointment; especially when they had some kind of assurance that a larger salary than usual would have been allowed on such an occasion Dt Auchmuty tells me, that he has done every thing in his power to forward our Scheme, but without success. "+ Perhaps, says he because the Clergy do "not care to leave a certainty for an uncertainty." We therefore desire you to inform us, what you think would be a proper allowance to offer to a Missty for this department: The Society are ready to concur to the utmost extent of their abilities to carry on so beneficial a design ; tho' indeed their income is far too scanty of itself alone & without some good assistance to forward it in the manner they wish. I have the honor to be with the most perfect esteem & respect.

. Your most Obedt humble Servant

D. Burrton.! Abingdon Street Westminster Febr" 1st 1768.

1 Rev. Dante Burton, D. D., chancellor of the diocese of Oxford and Rector of St. Peter's Poor, London, was for many years Secretary to Dr. Secker, Archb. of Canterbury, to whose will he was also executor. He was raised to the dignity of Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 24th June, 1760, and in 1761 succeeded Dr. Bearcroft as Secretary to the Society for propagating the gospel, which office he held until 1773, when he, in his turn, was succeeded by the Rey, Dr.