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Copies of Despatches and other Documents.
1. DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.
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EXTRACT from the ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS to the Governor of Jamaica, dated July 15, 1778.
72. You are not to prefer any minister to any ecclesiastical benefice in that island without a certificate from the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of London, of his being conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and of a good life and conversa- tion, and if any person already preferred to a benefice shall appear to you to give scandal either by his doctrine or manners, you are to use the proper and usual means for the removal of him.
73. You are to inquire whether there be any minister within your government who preaches and administers the Sacrament in any other orthodox church or chapel without being in due orders, and to give an account thereof to the said Bishop of London.
74. And to the end the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Lord Bishop of London may take place in that our island so far as conveniently may be, We think fit that you give all countenance and encouragement to the exercise of the same, excepting only the collating to benefices, granting licenses for marriages and probates of wills, which we have reserved to you our Governor and to the Commander-in-chief of our said island for the time being.
75. And We do further direct that no schoolmaster be henceforward permitted to come from this kingdom and to keep school in that island without the license of the said Lord Bishop of London, and that no other person now there or that shall come from other parts shall be admitted to keep school in Jamaica, without your licence first obtained.
77. The Right Reverend Father in God, Edmund late Lord Bishop of London, having presented a petition to His late Majesty King George the First, humbly beseeching him to send instructions to the Governors of all the several plantations in America, that they cause all laws already made against blasphemy, profaneness, adultery, fornication, polygamy, incest, profanation of the Lord's day, swearing, and drunkenness in their And We thinking it respective governments to be rigorously executed. highly just that all persons who shall offend in any of the particulars aforesaid should be prosecuted and punished for their said offences. It is therefore Our will and pleasure that you take due care for the punishment of the aforementioned vices, and that you earnestly recommend it to the Assembly of Jamaica to provide effectual laws for the restraint and punishment of all such of the aforementioned vices against which no laws
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