tuant BY THE REV. JAMES S. MY ANDERSON, M.A. CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN, CHAPLAIN TO THE QUEEN DOWAGER, PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, BRIGHTON, VOL. I. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON; AND ROBERT FOLTHORP & CO. BRIGHTON. TO THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM, BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE, LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND, AND METROPOLITAN, THIS WORK, BY PERMISSION OF HIS GRACE, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY AND DUTIFULLY INSCRIBED. PREFA CЕ. IT is the object of this work to trace the history of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire, from the earliest period in which the attempt was made to acquire any of them, to the present day. The first Volume has only brought the enquiry to the beginning of the reign of Charles the First; and, as this embraces but a small portion of the period which it is proposed to traverse, the reader may probably be alarmed at the almost interminable length of the course which here seems to be opened before him. It is necessary, therefore, to state, that much preliminary matter required to be noticed in this Volume, the examination of which, I trust, will tend greatly to facilitate my future progress. In the first place, the condition of our Transatlantic Colonies in early times, and the trials which the Church in those Colonies had consequently to encounter, reflected, for the most part, |