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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...Societys Missionaries among the Negroes seem to have been even more successful. But as they are recorded by Mr. Hawkins, it is sufficient to refer to his book. On the same authority it may be stated, that the operations of the Society among the heathen were not altogether confined to the American Colonies. "In 1732 a Missionary was sent to the Bahamas, and a second in 1739. On the Mosquito shore, both a Missionary and a Catechist were supported for several years. In 1752, an Itinerant Missionary was sent to the Negroes in Guinea; and a native African, educated and ordained in England, the Rev. Philip Quaque, was stationed on the Gold Coast, where he continued for above fifty years."1 At a meeting of the Society in February, 1711, at which Colonel Nicholson reported the Archbishops answer to a further memorial for a Mission to the country of the sachems, the Archbishop of York is mentioned as presiding. This was Dr. John Sharp, before mentioned as having incurred the displeasure of James II. by upholding the faith of the Church of England, when Rector of St. Giless. In the same year, the name of the Primate of Ireland occurs, as contributing a second donation of BOOL Narcissus Marsh was a remarkable man, of much learning, piety, and charity: educated at Oxford, he became Archbishop of Cashel in 1690, and Primate from about 1702 to 1713, having been first of Magdalen Hall, then Principal of Alban Hall, and afterwards Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns. In 1711 the name of Dr. Atterbury, at that time Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, and afterwards the celebrated Bishop of Rochester, occurs at a meeting where it was 1 " Historical Xotices," p. 433. proposed by Archbishop Sharp to bring the...
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9780471824497

ISBN-10

0471824496

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$55.00

Edition

2nd Edition

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Hardcover

Pages

480 pages

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published On

1986-04-01


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