and Function of the Ministers.

Ministers are often obliged to bury in Orchards, and preach Funeral
Sermons in Houses, where they also generally marry and christen; and as
for Weddings there is no Regard to the Time of the Day nor the Season of
the Year; and in _North Carolina_ the Justices marry.

Now to remedy all these Grievances and Deficiencies, with all Evils of
the like Kind, there is an absolute Necessity for a Person whose Office
upon this Occasion should be somewhat uncommon, till a Bishop be
established in those Parts; who might pave out a Way for the
Introduction of Mitres into the _English America_, so greatly wanting
there. This Person should have Instructions and Power for discharging
such Parts of the Office, of a Bishop, of a Dean, and of an Arch-Deacon,
as Necessity requires, and the Nature of those sacred Functions will
permit; and from a _Medium_ of these three Functions he might be called
Dean of _Virginia_; under whose Jurisdiction _North Carolina_ might fall
for the present, till the Constitution in Church and State there be
better advanced.

This Person should reside in some Parish in _Virginia_, and be obliged
to make a Progress (for the People will not approve of a Visitation)
each Spring and Fall in _Virginia_ and _North Carolina_, as his
Discretion shall best direct him.

As for a Salary for his travelling Expences 100 _l._ _per Ann._ would
suffice; and that this might not bring any new Charge upon the Publick,
there should be no Fees upon any Account, neither should he put them to
any Expence. This Person should be one that is popular, universally
acquainted with the People, their Temper and Manners, and one respected
and beloved by them; and as a farther Encouragement for him, and to
support the Dignity of his Office, he should have a good convenient
Parish in _Virginia_; and in his Absence the Clergymen there should be
obliged to officiate in his Church in Turns, according to their
Seniority in the Country; for the Detriment that the Parishes would
suffer by the Loss of Service in their Churches one _Sunday_ in several
Years would be nothing, when compared with the Advantage they would
receive in Lieu of it.

As a farther Addition to his Salary and Honour, he might be one of the
Masters of the College, particularly Divinity Professor would be most
suitable with his Character and Office, and more convenient for him,
since he might contrive to make his Progress in the Vacation Time.