. Like other loyalist clergy in rural missions, Arnold experienced difficulties securing financial assistance from his congregations, whom he described in 1791 as “exceedingly poor,” with “a very rugged

in a letter of 179l. “Wiswall is an infirm man,” he wrote, “& rather incapable of that exertion which the state of the country requires – like too many of the Clergy here, he does not seem to

, who wanted to use the support of the nobility and the clergy to ensure the submission of the Canadians. In 1770 Lanaudière accompanied his superior to London as a representative of the colony’s

considerable visiting of pioneer settlements and the oversight of a few clergy as new missions were opened. In 1799, at his own request and with the support of Bishop White, he was given an honorary

had the same rights as the clergy of the Church of England. Attorney General Jonathan Sewell*, who prosecuted Bentom, but whose wife, Harriet

on its actual administration. He was quick to take an interest in the details of its planning, such as the distribution of crown and clergy reserves throughout townships or the elaborate zoning

constituted its main income. On learning of the spoliation of the properties belonging to the clergy and the religious communities in France, Sister Saint-Ignace was rightly concerned about the fate of the

the members’ desire to participate in the colony’s cultural development. The new policy may have been dictated by the hostile reaction of the clergy. Whatever the case, the company shut down temporarily

clergy as civil magistrates, took steps to protect school and glebe lands from encroachment or alienation, and placed Bishop Charles

annual return of vacant posts and of transfers within the clergy. In making this exaction Prescott was more likely concerned to protect himself from an angered prince by demonstrating a desire “to assert

numbers of Catholic clergy in the years following the conquest, as well as the weak position of the ecclesiastical authority in its dealings with the new rulers. Pouget’s career as a priest further

duties there for some years. It is presumed that after the outbreak of the French revolution he refused to swear allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, for in 1799 he was in England under the

Scotia and the tory clergy of the revolution (New York, 1891). Fingard, Anglican design in loyalist N.S. E. A. Jones, The loyalists of New Jersey: their memorials

British settlers. His position fitted into the logic of a course of action common to bourgeois reformers, but it can probably also be explained by his independence of mind in regard to the Catholic clergy

4 July. Before he could effectively supervise his new mission, however, he had first to assert his jurisdiction. He attempted to send away all unauthorized clergy, but although some left quietly

–12; 42/82: ff.15–21. Scottish Catholic Arch. (Edinburgh), Blairs letters, 19 June 1786, Alexander MacDonell to George Hay; 3 Feb. 1788, MacDonell to John Geddes. “Clergy lists of the Highland

, authorized to visit the clergy and to administer discipline and oaths, but not to ordain, confirm, or consecrate. The same year Mountain turned down an appointment as Philip Toosey’s successor at Quebec in

gain for dissenting clergy the right of marrying by licence. As an honorary member of the Halifax Scots charitable organization, the North British Society, he solicited subscriptions for publishing a

was symptomatic of a greater malaise; they ascribed the deplorable state of the Church of England in the colony to the policy of appointing French speaking clergy, who, they argued, knew little of the

might have been expected. In his first case Nancy Mozely (Mosley), a Black woman, was convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband with a pitchfork. After pleading benefit of clergy, an ancient