Gadsden, John Moultrie, sen. Othniel Beale, Gab. Manigault, George Austin, William Banbury, William Roper, Rice Price, James Michie, Isaac Holmes, Charles Woodmason, Joseph Pickering, Robert Pringle, James Irving, John Hume, Robert Austin, Benjamin Stead, William Gibbes, Benjamin D'Harriette, Benjamin Mathews, Charles Pinckney, jun. George Somers, James Laurens, Paul Douxsaint, Peter Leigh, James Reid, William Burrows, Thomas Lloyd, John Lining, William Pinckney, David Caw, James Wright, Charles Mayne, Humphrey Somers, Alexander Stuart, Andrew Rutledge, John Guerard, Whit. Outerbridge, Esa. Brunet, John Paul Grimke, Charles Lowndes, William Carwithin, John Moultrie, jun. Miles Brewton, William Scott, John Remington, Thomas Shubrick, Luke Stoutenburgh, Henry Middleton.

The sixth Annual Meeting of the Clergy was held, April 24, 1754. Twelve Clergymen were present, and four were absent. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. William Peasely, Rector of St. Helena, Beaufort.

Pursuant to a Precept from the Church Commissioners, Jan. 30, 1755, the Parishioners met, Feb. 13, and elected the Rev. Richard Clarke, Rector of St. Philip's Parish. As the Successor of Mr. Garden, he was aware of the responsibility of his station. In a letter to the Society, he expressed his determination to follow his predecessor's example, and to pursue, with energy, his plans for the good of the Church. He likewise stated that, there were 70 children in the Negro School; and he acknowledged the receipt of a box of books for their use.

The seventh Annual Meeting of the Clergy was held April 9th, 1755. Eight Clergymen attended, and eight were absent. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Charles Martyn, Rector of St. Andrew's.

South-Carolina being part of the Bishop of London's Diocess, it was his prerogative to License such

Clergymen of the Church of England, as he approved, to perform the Ministerial Office in this Province. The Missionaries sent out by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, were Licensed as well as other Clergymen. But the Clergy who were not Missionaries depended solely upon the Salary allowed by the Province; while the Missionaries, receiving a Salary from the Society, as well as from the Province, were, generally, better rewarded for their labours. The Assembly felt themselves called upon, in some measure, to provide a more uniform support for the Clergy. They considered also, that as the Provincial means for the maintenance of the Clergy increased, the Society would, most probably, withdraw their support, and bestow it on less favoured portions of the Country. With these views, as well as to provide for the religious instruction of those parts of the Province where Churches had not, as yet, been built, they passed an Act, Jan. 27, 1756, for allowing an additional Salary of £30 Stg. per ann. to the Rectors of country Parishes who "do not, or shall not, receive a Salary, or Mission money from the Society." The Act likewise appropriated £1400 Cur. per ann. to such two Clergymen of the established Church, as should be appointed by the Church Commissioners, and officiate statedly at Saxe-Gotha, on the Congarees, or at Fredericksburg, Pine-Tree Creek, on the Waterees.*

The eighth Annual Meeting of the Clergy was held April 28th, 1756: ten Clergymen were present, and seven were absent. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. James Harrison, Rector of St. James's, GooseCreek.

In the year 1756, the Assembly increased the Salaries of the established Clergy to £100 Stg. per ann. The Society were highly gratified by this liberality, and expressed their hopes, that this mark of public fa

* See Appendix, I. 8.

vour would be an additional motive with the Parochial Clergy, to use their utmost exertions for the spiritual improvement of their benefactors.

The Rev. Mr. Andrews having resigned his office as Assistant Minister of St. Philip's Church, Nov. 9, 1756, applications were sent to England for a Clergyman to supply his place. Mr. Andrews returned to England, and was appointed Minister of Stinchcombe, in Gloucestershire, and afterwards, Vicar of Marden, in Kent.*

The Rev. Mr. Garden, after resigning the cure of St. Philip's Parish, went to England, intending to spend the remainder of his days in that country. But having been so long accustomed to the warmth of a Southern Sun, he found the Climate too severe for a constitution worn out with anxiety and care, and sinking under the infirmities of age. He therefore returned to CharlesTown. But his infirmities increasing, he died Sept. 27, 1756, in the 71st year of his age. He was interred on the South side of St. Philip's Church, in a tomb which the Vestry had built, as a mark of their gratitude for his long and faithful services.†

"Mr. Garden, in the discharge of the duties of this high office, [Commissary of the Bishop of London,] was strict and impartial. Improper conduct on the part of Clergymen was immediately noticed, the delinquents brought to trial, and the Canons of the Church were enforced against them. His appearance as one of the Visitors of the Free-School in Charles-Town, was the sure precursor of a strict examination. He did not permit the teachers, as they are very fond of doing, to point out the places for examination. This business

* Mr. Andrews published, in 1763, "The Scripture Doctrine of Grace. In answer to a Treatise on the Doctrines of Grace, by William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester." A posthumous Volume of "Sermons on the most Important Subjects," by the same, has lately appeared.

The following is the Inscription:

Here lie the Remains of the Rev.

Mr. Alexander Garden,

Who was Rector of this Parish 34 years;

Who departed this Life the 27th day of Sept.

Anno Domini, 1756, aged 71 years.

was managed by him as it ought to be, and was a real trial of what the pupils had learned. It was not confined to selected portions on which they had been previously prepared, but extended generally and promiscuously to all they had gone over. His visits and strict examinations produced good effect both on Masters and Scholars. In the discharge of family and clerical duties, Commissary Garden was exemplary. He was attentive to the religious education of his Children and Servants. He kept up strict discipline in his Church; was careful whom he admitted as Sponsors for children at the time of baptism; caused children who on account of sickness had been hastily baptised in private, in case of recovery, to be presented for a public reception into the Church; refused the Communion to immoral persons, and admitted no young persons as Communicants till he was privately satisfied that they understood the nature of the Ordinance, and had those views of religion which are proper for Communicants. In all cases he was a strict observer of rules and forms, and would not lightly depart from them. His particularities subjected him to remarks, but were the effect: of a systematic line of conduct which he had prescribed for himself. He would not receive from persons he married one penny more or less than the law allowed, nor at any other time than that prescribed in the Prayer-Book. Nor would he marry any persons in Lent, nor on the other Fast days prescribed by the Church; nor in any other manner than was strictly conformable to the Book of Common Prayer. His charity was in like manner measured by rule. The exact tenth of his whole income was yearly given to the poor. In every thing he was methodical. He carefully digested his plans, and steadily adhered to them, Strict himself, according to the forms of his religion, he required strictness from others. Under his Pastoral Care, a profession of religion was no slight matter. It imposed a

necessity of circumspect conduct regulated in all respects by the prescribed forms of the Church."*

In the year 1757, the Rev. Mr. Clarke, Rector of St. Philip's, informed the Society, that the Negro School in Charles-Town was flourishing, and full of children; and from the success of this institution, he lamented the want of civil establishments in the Province, for the Christian instruction of 50,000 Negroes. The Parochial Clergy performed as much of this duty as they could, but other important engagements occupied their time; and they could only offer up their prayers, that some enlarged means might be devised for the instruction of these people.

The ninth Annual Meeting of the Clergy was held, April 20, 1757. Ten Clergymen were present, and six were recorded as absent. The Rev. Jonathan Copp, Rector of St. John's, Colleton, preached the Sermon at this meeting.

The Prince of Wales presented to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, for distribution in America, 200 copies of that excellent work, in 2 volumes, Leland's View of the Principal Deistical Writers.+

Ramsay's So. Ca. II. 466.

One of these copies was presented by Col. Sam. Warren, to the Theological Library of The Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advancement of Christianity in So. Ca. This Society was founded in 1810. The first meeting was held in April, and the Address to the Members of the Church, and the Constitution of the Society, were published June 4. This was the first Society formed in So. Ca. which embraced the gratuitous distribution of the Scriptures, as one of its objects. The noble and flattering success of the two Venerable Societies in England, led to the institution of this. The honor of first suggesting such a Society here, is due to our present Diocesan, Bishop Bowen. The late Bishop Dehon entered warmly into the measure, and with the rest of the Clergy, and some influential and zealous laymen, gave a form to the Institution, which has since, under the good Providence of God, been the happy means of promoting its prosperity and usefulness. The Society is particularly indebted to Robert J. Turnbull, Esq. for devising a system of finance, by which the seeds of its perpetuity were sown with the foundation of the institution. The establishment of a continually increasing Permanent Fund, will, ultimately, provide the means for carrying into extensive operation, the pious and benevolent objects of the Society. But at present, it stands in need of the subscriptions and aid of al! who feel an interest in promoting the religious improvement of their native state. In six months after its formation, there were 10 Members for Life, and 234 Annual Subscribers. In 1819, there were 120 Members for Life, and 379 Annual Subscribers. Many donations are made to this Institution. The Fate Miss Theresa Julia de Tollinare, of St. John's, Berkley, bequeathed to it, a