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A29244 The acts of Dr. Bray's visitation held at Annapolis in Maryland May 23, 24, 25 anno 1700 Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730. 1700 (1700) Wing B4282; ESTC R29055 12,582 20

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THE ACTS OF Dr. Bray`s VISITATION HELD AT ANNOPOLIS IN MARY-LAND May 23 24 25. Anno 1700. LONDON Printed by W. Downing in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield 1700. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND Father in GOD HENRY Lord Bishop OF LONDON THESE FOLLOWING ACTS Are with all Submission Humbly Dedicated by Thomas Bray AT A VISITATION Held by his Reverence Dr. Thomas Bray As Commissary of the Right Reverend Henry Lord Bishop of LONDON At the Port of Annopolis on Thursday May the 23 th 1700. AFTER Prayers read and the Visitation Charge given the Clergies Names were called over as follows John Lilliston Rector of St. Paul's in Talbot County Benjamin Nobbes Rector of William and Mary's in St. Mary's County Christopher Platts Rector of King and Queen's Parish in St. Mary's County Robert Owen Rector of St. Paul's in Prince George's County George Tubman Rector of Port Tobacco in Charles 's County Hugh Jones Rector of Christ Church in Calvert County Thomas Cockshute Rector of All-Saints in Calvert County Henry Hall Rector of St. James 's Herring-Creek in Ann Arundel County Joseph Colbatch Rector of All-Hallows in Arundel County Edward Topp Rector of Annopolis in Ann Arundel County George Trotter Rector of Somerset and Stepney in Somerset County Thomas Howell Rector of Great Choptanck and Dorchester in Dorchester County Richard Marsden Reader of St. Michael's in Talbot County Stephen Boardley Rector of St. Paul's in Kent County Richard Sewell Rector of North and South Sassa-Crass in Caecil County Jonathan White Alexander Straham The Visitation was then adjourned till 4 a Clock in the Afternoon In the Afternoon called over the Clergies Names To whom his Reverence deliver'd himself as follows Commissary My Reverend Brethren I Have little more to add to what I have given you in Charge this Morning I shall therefore only recommend it to you to assist me in rendring this Visitation which has called you many Score and my self many Thousand Miles as useful as possible For I would not have a Visitation here reproachfully stil'd a Vexation as some have been pleased to term the Meetings of the Clergy of this sort from their supposed useless Charge and Trouble And as the only way to render what has been said useful in the succeeding Course of your Ministry is to put all the Particulars thereof into Practice so the likeliest Means to reduce it to that will be to take into Consideration the several Branches of this Morning's Charge and to form some Resolutions pursuant to the same Only in regard we have all so much Reason to be sensible of the late Re-establishment which our Church receiv'd after so terrible a Shock I think it will become Persons of our Character and Function to be in the first place as thankful to God so to signifie our Gratitude to Man those particularly who had the chief hand in Accomplishing so Glorious a Work And therefore if you please before we proceed to other Business let us consider who are fit to be addressed to in this Province by us on the Account of the late Act of Religion Ordered by his Reverence and the Clergy here met That our most humble and hearty Thanks be sent to his Excellency for his late Noble Zeal and Conduct towards the Re-establishment of the Church of England in this Province and that Mr. Lilliston Mr. Jones and Mr. Nobbes do wait upon his Excellency with the same Ordered That his Excellency be acquainted that we have received and read his kind Letter in reference to Mrs. Moor and do assure his Excellency that we shall always Religiously observe the Canons of the Church and the Laws of this Province in this and all other like Cases Ordered That the Thanks of his Reverence and the Clergy be returned to Colonel Thomas Smithson Speaker of the Honourable House of Assembly with their Request that the same Thanks may be communicated by him to the rest of the Members of Assembly for their so Honourably Re-establishing Religion by an unanimous Consent And as we are given to understand by the Assembly's Answer to his Excellency's Speech that this was done by them chiefly with a respect to the well Principling of their Children and Posterity So let it be assured that by the Divine Assistance this shall be our particular Care And that Mr. Lilliston Mr. Howell and Mr. Trotter be desired to signifie the same to him Adjourned till 5 next Morning May 24. 7 in the Morning Mr. Lilliston Mr. Nobbes Mr. Jones report That they have waited upon his Excellency with the Thanks of the Clergy as aforedirected which was kindly accepted by his Excellency Then the Charge given Yesterday was taken into Consideration in its several Branches relating to Ministerial Instruction And first as to Catechising Resolved 1 st That we will make it our utmost Endeavour to cause all Children under the Age of 9 Years to learn the Church Catechism as also a Morning and Evening Prayer by Heart and to perswade the Parents of those that are not at too great a distance from Church to bring them thither to be publickly examined and also that we will take all convenient Opportunities to visit and examine those that are at too great a distance at their several Homes Resolved That the same Care shall be taken as to the 2 d. Class that is those who are above the Age of 9 and under 13. And that we will put them upon getting also by heart some short Exposition upon it with Scripture Proofs Resolved As to the 3 d. Class That we will endeavour all we can to perswade so many of the young People of our respective Parishes as possible to read such Books as we shall advise them more particularly such as shall be judged most proper to instruct them in the Nature Terms and Conditions of the Covenant of Grace in order to introduce them to the Lord's-Supper and that in order to engage them betimes more effectually to a good Life And that we will endeavour to have them meet us every Lord's-Day at the Church or at such other Times and Places as shall be thought most convenient to confer with us upon the Subject of their last Reading That the better to engage them to meet us to such purposes we will endeavour to have them taught to sing at those Conferences the New Version of Psalms according to the best Tunes And that we may be the better able to season the Country with Vertue and Sobriety by those of our own Houshold his Reverence be desired to write to the Stweards of the Religious Societies in London to provide them with such Servants capable to sing Psalms after the New Version and best Tunes to officiate as Clerks of Parishes and such as can write Resolved That so soon as we shall have duly prepared some of the Superior Class of Catechumens for the Holy Sacrament so as not to fail of a sufficient Number of Communicants we will thenceforwards have Monthly Sacraments in