John H. I believe, born in London 1635, at the age of 20 joined the society after which he escapes my observation.

"HARRISON, HENRY; all that I can collect of him is, that he died in 1701, œt 49. Soc. 28.

"GAGE CHARLES; half brother, I suspect,* to Sir Henry Gage the brave commander at Oxford. That he was stationed at Norwich in the reign of James II. is certain, for we read in the annual letters which report the State of Religion antecedent to the revolution, At Norwich the Capital of Norfolk was a very celebrated chapel where F. Charles Gage excited a wonderful sensation by his sermons, and laboured so zealously in that Vineyard that the faithful unanimously addressed a letter of thanks to the Father Provincal for having provided them with such a distinguished preacher."

A SUMMARY ACCOUNT

OF THE STATE OF THE CHURCH IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, AS IT WAS LAID BEFORE THE CLERGY, CONVENED OCTOB 5TH 1704, AT NEW YORK, BY THE APPOINTMENT OF HIS EXCELLENCY EDWARD, LORD CORNBURY, AND COLONEL FRANCIS NICHOLSON. [Hawks' Church Rec.]

In this Province are ten Counties. First New York, in which there is an English Church, called and known by the name of Trinity church, already built, and the steeple raised to a considerable height by the voluntary contributions of several persons, a full account whereof has been given in a former scheme to my Lord of London. The Rector of this Church is maintained by a tax levied upon all the Inhabitants of the city, amounting

If this suspicion be correct, he is also brother to the apostate Thos. Gage, the author of the New Survey of the West Indies, a curious book much pillaged by modern travellers. He was a friar, but fell so low as to become priest taker, and even betrayed the illustrious Father Peter Wright, S. J. while the latter was chaplain in his brother's house. OLIVER, Verbo, "Wright." Various Editions of the "New Survey of the West Indies" above mentioned will be found in the State Lib: Albany; also in the collection of Harvard College, Mass.

to £160, one hundred whereof is entailed forever upon the Incumbent for the time being, and Sixty pound is added by the influence of his Excellency the Governor and an Act of the General Assembly, during the life and residence of the present incumbent, Mr William Vesey.

And for his further encouragement, his Excellency, out of his great goodness, hath ordered in council, twenty six pound per annum to be paid out of the Revenue for the Rent of the house of the said Incumbent.

His Excellency hath also, by a law, incorporated the Rector and all the Inhabitants of this City of New York, that are in communion with the church of England, as by law established, by which they and their successors are vested with sundry rights and privileges; particularly the said law hath enacted, that the patronage and advowson of the said church, and right of presentation, after the death of the present Incumbent, or upon the next avoidance, shall forever thereafter belong and appertain to the church wardens and Vestry men of the said church, in communion with the church of England, which before was in the Vestry chosen by all the Inhabitants of the said city. This privilege establishes the church upon a sure and lasting foundation.

BENEFACTIONS OF TRINITY CHURCH OF NEW YORK. The Right Honourable & Right Revd Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London hath given a bell to said church, value £60. His excellency has also very liberally contributed to the said church, and besides used his interest to promote the same.

A sum of about three hundred pounds formerly collected in the Province of New York for the Redemption of some captives in Algiers. In a Brief for collecting the said sum it is provided that in case the Redemption or Death of the said captives shall happen before the arrival of the said sum in Holland, that then it shall be disposed of to such uses as are mentioned in the said Brief; The Slaves being either dead or redeemed before the money was transmitted, his excellency in council hath assigned the said sum for the finishing of the steeple of Trinity Church.'

1 For the Docs. connected with the above Transaction, see post. p.415.

His excellency the Governor taking into his consideration the great charges the parishioners have been and are still at in raising the Edifice and steeple to that perfection they designed it, hath been graciously pleased to recommend to her Majesty the Queen, that it may please her Majesty to bestow a farm within the bounds of the said City, known by the name of the King's Farm, to the use & benefit of the said Church, with half an acre of ground adjoining to the said Church designed by his Lordship for a Garden and a house to be built for the said Incumbent.

His Lordship has been pleased to encourage Religion, and discountenance Vice in the said Province by Proclamation, and has used his utmost endeavours to promote the Public Worship of God, and train up Youth in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, particularly in the city of New-York, and hath contributed to the building a French church. And since the death of the late minister of the French Congregation, resolves to use his interest to introduce a French Minister that shall have Episcopal ordination and conform to the constitution of the church.

His Lordship hath been also highly instrumental in enacting a law for establishing a Latin free school, and to endow it with a salary of Fifty pound per Annum, to which station his Lordship hath preferred the ingenious Mr George Muirson, who for sometime discharged that function with approbation & Success.

Two other Schools are likewise established in this City by his Excellency's care, and by these and other means, the church daily increaseth, and it is to be hoped, if God pleases to continue his excellency in the Administration of this Government, this Church is in a fair way of becoming the greatest Congregation upon the continent.

We are willing with much submission to represent to the Honourable Society, how that excellent design of theirs in supplying us with a Catechist might have their pious endeavors better served, if instead of the pious and deserving Mr Elias Neau, who was brought up a Merchant and in good business, the Worthy and ingenious Mr Muirson, who is now going for England in the hopes of being admitted into Holy Orders, were appointed for that purpose. Mr William Vesey might be assisted VOL. III.

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