salary which would have been owing him, had he been continued in Office. He wrote to the Governor, and made a personal application to the House. The Governor complained that he was affronted "by his saucy letter," and rejected his application. But the House of Commons heard him favourably, and sent the following address to the Governor and Council, Oct. 30, 1707:

"May it please your Honors,

"Dr. Edward Marston having made application to this House to have his salary of £150 per ann. paid him as being Minister to the Church of England in Charles-Town, according to a law made and provided in that case for the payment thereof; and the same appearing to us by the said Act to be justly due to him; but finding your Honors not concurring to an Ordinance for the payment of the said salary the last Session, do pray your Honors to show us such reasons that we may be thereby satisfied why the said Dr. Marston ought not to be paid according to the directions and intent of the said Act.

"THOMAS SMITH, Speaker.” This application excited considerable warmth of feeling in the Upper House, and produced the following angry reply, Nov. 6, 1707:

"Gentlemen,

"We read your second message relating to Mr. Edward Marston, wherein you desire us to give our reasons why he should not have £150 paid him for officiating from the date of the Ordinance of the Assembly to stop his salary till the time that he was ejected by the Decree of the Commons. And we cannot but wonder that you should ask us to give reasons why he should not be paid the salary, when you may see the reasons very plainly in the words of the Ordinance, where, after reciting of his offences, and his abusing of the government, it is expressly said, that no more money shall be paid him out of the public

Treasury, until such time as by an Ordinance of the General Assembly, upon his amendment, better behaviour and submission, he be restored to the same. Now he hath been so far from any amendment, or making any submission to the government, that he continued his abuses and railing constantly in his Sermons, so that neither the Governor, nor no one of the concerned in the government, could go to Church, except they would be contented to hear themselves abused; he having his abusive papers ready penned into his sermon notes, to make use of when he saw any one concerned in the government come to Church, which necessitated the Commons to proceed against him. And several of the Articles charged against him before the Commissioners was occasioned by those railing and abusive sermons.* Therefore we suppose you cannot expect we should consent to have him paid for these abusive sermons, for which we thought him worthy to be deprived. And whereas you object that he officiated that time. To that we answer, that we know no one yet desired him, and all of us would have been glad if he would have let it alone; for it was his officiating drove us and others from the Church, who were sure to be abused by him in his Sermons; and he hath still continued his insolence and abuses to the

overnment. A particular instance of which you had in his last scurrilous and abusive letter sent to the Governor, which was laid before your House, the last Session, and at the opening of this your meeting, the Governor told you how ill he took your former treatment of him, with respect to Mr. Marston. And therefore we wonder to see you repeat your affronts to the Governor by siding with Mr. Marston, by which we and every one may plainly see that a person need have no other qualifications to entitle him to your favor, but abusing the government, otherwise surely

We have not been so fortunate as to find the Journals of the Lay-Commissioners, if any were kept,

you would never espouse the cause of Mr. Marston, whose notorious guilt in that particular is so well known, for certainly you cannot suppose that we, or any other person will think it is your kindness to the Church and the Clergy in general; for as to the Church you have sufficiently showed your prejudices to that by a late instance: And for the Clergy you have showed your good will to them in the case of Mr. Hasel, whom you have refused to gratify, though you all know he hath officiated to the satisfaction and content of the government and his Parishioners.*

"Now as to Mr. Marston, he hath never made any amendment or submission in all this time elapsed since the first passing the Ordinance for stopping his salary, and therefore we give you this as our positive and final answer concerning him, that we will never consent that he shall have any money paid him out of the public Treasury, neither will we spend any more time and pains in receiving or answering any more messages relating to him.

"Neither do we know which way he could be paid as a Minister if we were willing, when the old Church Act is repealed, and all the public money appropriated under a strict penalty upon the Receiver for paying contrary to the appropriation. And therefore if he deserved our pity or favour, what should be allotted him (as the Treasury is now settled) must be by way of gift or Charity, and as to that, when we can see his submission to the government for his many abuses of them, and that we shall have some experience of his living as becomes a Christian and a Minister of the Gospel of the Church of England in particular, by paying all dutiful obedience to the government according to the known doctrine of the Church, and living in love and charity with all people, and particularly the people of his parish. Then, and not before, we

shall consider how far he and his family are objects of our charity, and shall not then be wanting to show ourselves compassionate and ready to forgive.

"NATHANIEL JOHNSON."

After Mr. Marston's ejectment from St. Philip's Church, he went to Christ Church Parish. It appears that he was poor; which will account for his incessant applications to the government. On the 15th Dec. 1708, his wife petitioned the House of Assembly for relief, stating the necessitous situation of herself and children. The House consented to allow her, in equal monthly payments, the sum of £150, which should be considered as given for the relief of Mr. Marston's family, and "in full satisfaction of his pretensions." His unhappy disposition would not permit him to be at rest. He was declared guilty of a breach of privilege towards some of the Members of the House of Commons, and on the 22d Oct. 1709, the Assembly "Ordered, That Mr. Attorney-General be acquainted, that the said Marston, being a litigious and abusive person, be prosecuted by the Attorney-General as a common disturber to the Governor and Government." Applications were made at different times for relief for his family, which the Assembly granted in various forms; until in 1712 he petitioned the House to discharge his debts and furnish him with the means of leaving the Province with his family.

The Rev. Richard Marsden, A. M. was appointed in 1705, to the vacant Church, in which he continued until the arrival of Mr. Commissary Johnson, in 1707. In the following year, he was elected Rector of ChristChurch Parish. During his residence in town, he made some repairs to the Parsonage, amounting to £20, which was reimbursed him by the General Assembly, Feb. 10, 1708-9.

The Rev. Mr. Thomas, Missionary fat St. James', Goose-Creek, went to England in 1705. He return

ed in October, and died in a few days.

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To provide means for the support of the Episcopal Clergy, the General Assembly, Nov. 4th, 1704, passed "An Act to continue an Act, entitled, an Act for laying an Imposition on Furs, &c. and for appropriating the same;" in which it is enacted, Sect. ii. "That four hundred and fifty Pounds of the monies which from and after the tenth day of May next, shall be raised and become due by the Duty and Imposition on Furs and Skins, shall, and is hereby appropriated yearly to and for the payment of Salaries to Ministers of the Church of England, which are built and erected, and appropriated to be built and paid by an Act, entitled, "An Act for establishing Religious Worship in this Province," and to no other use or service whatsoever."

The excitement produced by the Act of 1704, prevented the building of the Churches which that Act had directed.