Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . to Trinity Church, New York, ing been made commissary for the BishopMr. Vesey received the following invita- of London in 1712, had another withtion from the Vestry: — Governor Burnet. His long and re- This Board having read a certificate spected ministry closed July 18, 1746. under the hands of the Rev. Mr. Samuel See Spragues Annals of the American Myles, Minister of the Church of Eng- Pulpit, v. 13, 14. land in Boston, in New England, and 3 His writing these letters after his Mr. Gyles Dyer, and Mr. Benjamin si
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . to Trinity Church, New York, ing been made commissary for the BishopMr. Vesey received the following invita- of London in 1712, had another withtion from the Vestry: — Governor Burnet. His long and re- This Board having read a certificate spected ministry closed July 18, 1746. under the hands of the Rev. Mr. Samuel See Spragues Annals of the American Myles, Minister of the Church of Eng- Pulpit, v. 13, 14. land in Boston, in New England, and 3 His writing these letters after his Mr. Gyles Dyer, and Mr. Benjamin signature to the Address in 1689, may Mountfort, Church-wardens of the said therefore have been one cause of the sar- church, of the learning and education, casm against him quoted on p. 99, as at and of the pious, sober, and religious this time he had not the English degree behaviour and conversation of Mr. Wil- of , but only the Harvard one of liam Vesey, and of his often being a A. M., at that time a less distinguished communicant — the receiving of the most A W w a Q THE CHURCH TAKES ROOT. 121 probable that, through the influence of the Bishop of London,he had been presented to Queen Mary, who was a sincere mem-ber of the Church of England. King William III. also was tooacute a statesman to fail of seeing the political advantage to bederived from strengthening this outpost of the State extended to the church their personal protection andpatronage, and, though Queen Mary died while he was in Lon-don, William III. continued to perform what she had engagedto do on her part for the adherents to the English establishmentin these distant dominions. Mr. Myles brought back with himthe substantial proofs of their bounty, — cushions and carpets,Bible and prayer-books, altar-cloth and surplices; soon aftercame a very rich gift of communion plate. Boston, 1696. — This year Mr Samuell Myles, Pastor of this Church,Returned ftiom England. Hee Arrived July 4
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