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Coventry parish, Somerset county, has two churches in good repair, a new chapel nearly completed, and the aspect of the congregations encouraging. St. John's parish, Prince George's and Charles's counties, has a church and chapel in good repair. The glebe has been sold, the proceeds of which are not yet invested. The salary of the minister, raised by voluntary subscription, amounts to about $700.

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Trinity Church, Prince George's county, has a frame church, which requires, and will probably soon receive, both enlargement and repair. The present engagement of the vestry with the minister is to afford him $750 for the current six months.

parish, Kent-Island, has a glebe of more than 150 acres of excellent land, which is unprofitable through neglect. The church is almost in ruins, although from twenty to thirty church families remain on the island. Should a clergyman be willing to take the charge of a school, and live upon the glebe, it is not doubted but that he would obtain a comfortable support. The disposition of the people appears favourable to the re-establishment of the church.

All-Saints parish, Calvert county; a sum of money has lately been raised to repair the church, which, it is believed, will be effected in the course of this summer. The salary of the rector is about $800, received from the voluntary contributions of the congregation alone. A Bible Society has been organized by the members of this church in conjunction with Christ Church. The prospects of the parish are encouraging.

St. James's parish, Anne-Arundel, has an old brick church in tolerably good repair, and a comfortable parsonage with 60 acres of land. The salary of the rector is $ 800, of which $150 are the proceeds of a permanent fund, the residue voluntary contribution.

Havre-de-Grace parish, Harford, has a commodious church not entirely finished. The funds consist of pew rents and voluntary contributions. The salary of the rector from this parish is $200.

St. Paul's Church, Sharpsburgh; a

new and commodious stone building, not entirely finished. Funds are derived from voluntary contributions of the congregation, which is of respectable size. The Rev. Benjamin Allen, of Virginia, occasionally officiates as rector.

This congregation has a small parochial library and a tract society. All-Saints parish, Frederick county the church has been increased to double its former size, and the sale and rent of pews has furnished a fund of $1200 as a salary for the rector. By the will of Dr. Potts, a sum has been given to aid in the purchase of a parsonage, and the affairs of the parish present a most flattering prospect.

Emanuel parish, Alleghany county, has been without a minister for a number of years, and is now without a vestry. There are no funds belonging to the parish, and nothing appears to justify a hope that the congregation will at any early period be provided with a rector.

St. John's Church, Georgetown. The lay delegate reports, that this parish has a convenient brick church, which has lately been repaired at the expense of $500. The congregation is increasing, and the parish presents in every view a flourishing appearance. Rector's salary $1000.

Christ Church, Georgetown; the lay-delegate reports, that the church is new and in good repair, and that a small debt occasioned by its erection is in a fair way to be discharged soon. Nearly all the pews are sold. Number of families about one hundred and thirty. Rector's salary not stated.

Dorchester parish, Dorchester county. The vestry report that they have a brick church and a wooden chapel, both in tolerable repair. They have neither funds nor glebe. They have the occasional services of the Rev. Mr. Weller. After having been for many years in a disorganized state, they have at length reorganized themselves and sent a delegate to this Convention. They state their desire to have a minister in their own parish.

St. George's parish, Harford county. The register reports, that the parish has a large brick church and a brick vestry house; $700 have been expended in repairs upon them, but

they are still in a bad condition. The parish has a glebe, which yields $182 per annum. This, with an additional sum raised by subscription, forms the minister's salary, the whole amount of which is $450. Number of families about thirty.

Zion Church, Frederick county. No material change in the state of the parish. The Rev. Mr. Armstrong having departed for Europe, was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Wall.

St. John's parish, in Baltimore and Harford counties. There is in said parish one old brick church in a state of dilapidation-and a small new stone church at the distance of about four miles, where the service is performed once a fortnight. There is also a glebe of 350 acres, at present rented for $190 per annum. A subscription of $160, together with the before mentioned sum, constitute the rector's salary.

St. Margaret's, Westminster parish. This parish has had no clergyman for several years, but its vestry have so improved the property of the church, that it will probably receive $600 per annum from stock in the Farmers' Bank. Seven hundred dollars have lately been expended in putting in good repair a chapel in the upper part of the parish. The old church, near the banks of the Severn, which was consumed by fire about eighteen years ago, has never been rebuilt, and the number of church families in the neighbourhood not much exceeding twenty; there are no other means by which it can be rebuilt, than the appropriation for about two years of the annual income of the parish to that purpose.

Shrewsbury parish, Kent county. In this parish there is a large church in tolerable repair, and a chapel in a state of decay. The rector officiates in an academy at the head of Chester, and in a Presbyterian meeting-house long since abandoned by the society, which is now become extinct, and to which it belonged. The temporalities of the parish have been sadly neglected or mismanaged; it has neither glebe nor funds of any description. The salary of the rector, amounting to $500, arises wholly from voluntary contributions.

Prince George's parish, Montgomery county. A new church is commenced in Rockville, which will probably be finished this year. There is a small unprofitable glebe of about 80 acres. The salary of the rector arises from voluntary contributions.

St. Bartholomew's parish, Montgomery county, has one good stone church, the salary depending upon contributions, but the condition of the parish esteemed flourishing, and the church not sufficiently capacious.

King and Queen parish, St. Mary's county, contains a brick church in tolerable repair, and a chapel in decay. They have neither glebe nor funds, and are considerably perplexed with a debt contracted in repairing the church. They have been for some time without á minister, but they have reasonable grounds for the devout hope of being soon in a better condition.

St. Paul's parish, Queen Anne's, has neither glebe nor funds, a church in tolerable repair, and a congregation considerably large and apparently devout.

St. Peter's parish, Kent county, has an excellent chapel and large congregation, but the parish church is in a state of hopeless dilapidation. The support of the rector is from voluntary contributions, by which the parish have also been enabled to defray a large expense incurred in the repairs of the chapel.

Christ Church, St. John's parish, Harford, has a good stone buildingcongregation consists of between thirty and forty families, who support their minister by voluntary contributions added to the rent of the glebe lands.

The following gentlemen were chosen Delegates to the General Convention : -The Rev. William Wickes, the Rev. Samuel C. Stratton, the Rev. John P. K. Henshaw, the Rev. William E. Wyatt, D. D. the Honourable John C. Herbert, Francis S. Key, Esq. Tench Tilghman, Esq. William Done, Esq.

The following sums were reported as received from the several parishes— For the Bishop's Expenses, $376 34 Deputies' Fund,

141 00

Incidental Expenses, 98 00

Resolved, that the members of the Convention be required to bring with them to the next Convention, $1 from each parish in the state, for defraying the expense of the several publications ordered by this Convention.

The committee appointed at the last Convention, on the travelling expenses of the standing committee, made the following report, which was accepted: Resolved, That it is expedient that the treasurer of this Convention, after employing as much of the deputies' fund as is necessary for its original purpose, be directed to appropriate the balance in his hands, to defray the travelling expenses of the standing committee.

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be presented to the Right Rev. President, and the Rev. Secretaries, for their services rendered this body

The business of the Convention being then accomplished, the Bishop declared his approbation of the manner in which it had been transacted; and his great satisfaction in the harmony which had so apparently prevailed. Among other remarks, he took occasion to express his wish, that the clergy of this diocess would conform at the opening of Conventions to the ancient and decorous usage of the Church, in respect of the appearance of clergymen in their robes, upon all occasions of public religious solemnity. The Convention having then united in singing the 100th Psalm, the closing act of devotion was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hubbard; after which the Bishop declared the Convention adjourned, and dismissed them with the Apostolical blessing.

A list of parishes and clergy in the diocess, attached to the Journal of the above Convention, contains 67 parishes, and the names of 44 clergymen.

The following is an Appendix to the Journal of the above Convention :Abstract of the Journals of the Stand ing Committee of the Diocess of Maryland, commencing A. D. 1815. [The publication of this abstract is in compliance with the following resolution of this Convention :VOL. V.

On motion, Resolved, That an abstract of the minutes of the standing committee be uniformly published on the Journals of this Convention, and that the abstract on the Journal of the present Convention shall embrace the proceedings of several years past.]

It appears from the journal of the standing committee, since the year 1815, inclusive, that three gentlemen have received the testimonials of said committee, in favour of their consecration, to the office of Bishop, viz. the Rev. Dr. John Croes, for the diocess of NewJersey; the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Bowen, for the diocess of South-Carolina; and the Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Brownell, for the diocess of Connecticut. It appears also, that during the same period, nineteen gentlemen have been recommend ed to the Bishop, in order to being received as candidates for the ministry in this diocess; sixteen have received canonical testimonials in favour of their admission to the holy order of Deacons ; seventeen for admission to the holy or der of Priests; that two gentlemen ordained in a foreign country have removed to this diocess; and that three who had applied to be received as candidates, and one who had applied for testimonials, have been required to undergo a longer probation.

It is the melancholy office of the journalists also to record that four gentlemen ordained in this diocess, and one of those enumerated as from a foreign country, have, during the same period, been the subjects of Ecclesias tical discipline. George Dashiell, George Handy, and William Gibson, formerly presbyters; and Alfred Dashiell, formerly a deacon, having been degraded from their ministerial characbeing forbidden the further exercise of ter and office; and George Williams its functions in this diocess.

It appears from the journal of the standing committee, that in consequence of various reports, long and widely circulated, George Dashiell was presented for trial by the standing committee of the diocess, according to the Canons of that Church to which he had voluntarily become amenable, be ing accused of "scandalous, immoral,

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and obscene conduct upon several occasions.

Baltimore, December 8th, 1815. At the time and place appointed for the investigation, prayers adapted to the occasion having been offered up, the Rev. George Dashiell was informed that the standing committee were prepared to enter upon his business, Mr. C. Worthington, Mr. A. Worthington, Mr. S. Hollingsworth, Mr. F. Hollingsworth, Mr. J. Cheston, the Rev. J. Armstrong, and the Rev. Mr. Wickes, appeared as witnesses. Depositions from Mrs. Schroeder, Mrs. Stansbury, Mary Logan, Anne Steele, and Eliza Bartol, were laid upon the table. A highly respectable lady of Baltimore informed the committee, by her husband, that she also was ready to offer her allegations when they would receive them.

The committee received a communication from the Right Rev. T. I. Clagget, Bishop of Maryland, inform ing that the Rev. George Dashiell, had by letter, declared to him that "he found himself under the painful necessity of renouncing his connexion with the Episcopal Church-he (G. Dashiell) acknowledges this to be a step which he deprecates, yet rather than continue to be an object of the fell malice of those who have usurped its authority, he prefers having no connexion with it."

Several communications then passed between the Rev. George Dashiell and the standing committee, when the former having persisted in refusing to appear and answer to the charges brought against him, although he had appeared in person or by counsel, when some of the above depositions were taken, under the solemnity of an oath, the standing committee unanimously adjudged the said George Dashiell to be guilty of contumacy, and subjected to all the penalties imposed by the 28th Canon. During six months which then elapsed, it was yet in the power of the said George Dashiell to escape this sentence, and to demand a public trial, wherein it was his privilege to be heard by counsel. He continuing to decline an investigation, the sentence was canonically and solemnly pronounced upon

him by the Right Rev. Bishop Clagget, in virtue of which degradation, he effectually and for ever forfeited all clerieal and ministerial office, functions, and privileges.

Baltimore, October 22d, 1819.

The standing committee read a letter from the Right Rev. Bishop Kemp, accompanied by several documents relating to the Rev. George Williams, ordained in Scotland, upon which, acting as the Bishop's council of advice, they recommended the investigation of several charges contained in the documents against said George Williams. This matter resulted in the withdrawing from Mr. Williams his license to perform clerical functions, agreeably to the provisions of the 9th Canon of the Church of Maryland.

Baltimore, June 9th, 1819.

The standing committee having received a letter through their President, the Rev. Dr. Davis, from the Rev. George D. S. Handy, stating that he had ceased to be a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and had attached himself to a society under the title of the Evangelical Episcopal Church, established by the aforesaid George Dashiell, since his degradation from the ministry-and a communication, similar in effect, having been made to the standing committee, on the 20th June, 1821, respecting the Rev. Alfred Dashiell, who had been re-ordained by said George Dashiell and a comunication, similar in effect, as it respects a renunciation of connexion with the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been received through the Bishop, on the 1st of June, 1820, from the Rev. William Gibson, who had been tried in January, 1819, and suspended from the exercise of the ministry, for intemper ance-it may suffice to mention concerning these three gentlemen, that sentence of degradation was pronounced upon them all by the Right Rev. Bishop Kemp, according to the 2d Canon of the General Convention of 1817, for such cases provided.

By order of the Convention, WILLIAM E. WYATT, Secretary Standing Committee. Baltimore, July 3d, 1821.

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DR. TAYLOR, the parson of Hadleigh, in 1555, suffered martyrdom for his opposition to the errors of Popery, and his steady adherence to the doctrines of the reformation.

"It was not to be expected, therefore, that when the bigoted Mary ascended the throne of these realms, a man so gifted, and, at the same time, so popular, as was Dr. Taylor, should long escape the arm of persecution. Scarcely, indeed, had this sanguinary woman commenced her reign, when an attempt was made to celebrate mass by force in the parish church of Hadleigh; and, in endeavouring to resist this profanation, which was planned and conducted by two of his parishioners, named Foster and Clerke, assisted by one Averth, rector of Aldham, whom they had hired for the purpose, Dr. Taylor became, of course, obnoxious to the ruling powers, an event no doubt foreseen and calculated upon by the instigators of the mischief.

"This judgment was accordingly pronounced at a fourth conference on the 28th of the same month, the Bishops of Winchester, Norwich, London, Salisbury, and Durham, being present; when, on the Doctor again declining to submit himself to the Roman Pontiff, he was condemned to death, and the day following removed to the Poultry Counter. Here, on the 4th of February, he was visited by Bonner, Bishop of London, who, attended by his chaplain and the necessary officers, came to degrade him.Refusing, however, to comply with this ceremony, which consisted in his putting on the vestures or mass-garments, he was compelled to submit by force; and, when the Bishop, as usual, closed this disgusting mummery with his curse, Taylor nobly replied, Though you do curse me, yet God doth bless me. I have the witness of my conscience that ye have done me wrong and violence, and yet I pray God, if it be his will, forgive you."

The sentence was executed at Aldham Common, near to Hadleigh, and his death is thus recorded:

"When he had finished his devotions, he went to the stake, kissed it, and, placing himself in the pitch-barrel which had been prepared for him, he stood upright therein, with his back against the stake, his hands folded together, his eyes lifted to heaven, and his mind absorbed in continual prayer.

"They now bound him with chains, and the sheriff, calling to one Richard Doningham, a butcher, ordered him to set up the faggots; but he declined it, alleging that he was lame, and unable to lift a faggot; and, though threatened with imprisonment if he continued to hesitate, he steadily and fearlessly refused to comply.

"The sheriff was therefore obliged to look elsewhere, and at length pitched upon four men perhaps better calcu lated than any other for the office they were destined to perform; namely, one Mullein, of Kersey, a man, says Fox, fit to be a hangman; Soyce, whom we have formerly mentioned, and who was notorious as a drunkard; Warwick, who had been deprived of one of his ears for sedition; and Robert King, a man of loose character, and who had come hither with a quantity of gunpowder, which, whether it were in tended to shorten or increase the torments of the sufferer, can alone be known to him from whom no secrets are concealed.

"While these men were diligently, and, it is to be apprehended, cheerfully employed in piling up their wood, Ware wick wantonly and cruelly threw a faggot at the Doctor, which hit him on the head, and likewise cut his face, sò that the blood ran copiously down-an act of savage ferocity, which merely drew from their victim this mild reproach-Oh, friend, I have harm enough, what need of that.' Nor were these diabolical insults confined to those among them of the lowest rank; for when this blessed martyr was say ing the psalm Miserere in English, Sir John Shelton, who was standing by, struck him on the lips, exclaiming, at the same time, Ye knave, speak Latin, or I will make thee.'

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"They at length set fire to the faggots; when Dr. Taylor, holding up both his hands, called upon his God, and said,

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