This Salary of 100 _l._ _per Ann._ might certainly be easily obtained
from the Government out of the Quit-Rents, or otherwise, as the
Commissary's was; which Office and Name has not appeared well-pleasing
to the People and Clergy, for Reasons I can't account for: neither has
it obtained the Power and good Effect as might have been expected.

This Office of Dean might be try'd for a few Years, and the Dean should
be obliged to transmit Home yearly to his Diocesan the Bishop of
_London_ attested Copies of his Proceedings in his Progress; setting
forth the Particulars of the Attempts that he has made, and the Good he
has done, signed by the Justices and Ministers of the Place or County.
The Expence of this Tryal would be but little, but the Good that might
arise from hence might be unspeakable, and there can be no Hurt in it;
no Incroachment upon the Privilege of the People, nor the Rights of the
several Incumbents.

His Office and Duty should be to register all Letters of Orders and
Credentials of Ministers, sent over by the Bishop of _London_, and also
all Collations to Livings. To examine and confirm all Persons before
they be admitted to the Lord's Supper, which Confirmation (or rather
Approbation) might be done without Imposition of Hands in a peculiar
Form, proper for the Circumstances of this Occasion; and the Ministers
should admit none to the Sacrament without his Certificate of this their
Confirmation.

He should be obliged to send the Ministers in his Progress timely Notice
of his Intention, with a printed Form of his Examination and
Confirmation, with Directions for the Minister to prepare and exhort the
Congregation thereto. In his Progress he should preach at such vacant
Churches as he passes by; baptize all Children and others that require
it; and preach up the absolute Necessity of it. He should have Power to
call a Vestry, and there examine whether the Church, _&c._ be in good
Repair, and fit for the Congregation; whether it be sufficiently
beautified and commodiously built and situated; whether there be
Surplices, Communion-Table and Cloth, and all the Utensils required in
the Canons of the Church of _England_.

He should enquire into the Conduct of the Minister; and likewise should
he inspect into the Management of the Clerk, and prescribe him Rules and
Directions in the Execution of his Office, especially where there is no
Incumbent Minister, which very frequently happens in several Places for
Year