474 ?!e HISTORY of the CURTTAN9. Chap. IL Kingjames;: pear that any attempts were made to convert them till after the year 160 when the ad of the third and fourth of Philip and Mary being repealed, the citizens of London undertook for the province of Ufer. Thefe ad. venturers built Londonderry, fortified Colrain, and purchafed a great traét of land in the adjacent parts. They fent over confiderable numbers of planters, but were at a lots for miniflers; for the beneficed clergy of the church of England being at cafe in the enjoyment of their preferments, would not engage in fuch a hazardous undertaking, it fell therefore to the lot of the Scots, and Englifh puritans ; the Scots by reafon of their vicinity to the northern parts of Ireland, tranfported numerous colonies; they improved the country, and brought preaching into the churches where they fettled; but being of the prefbyterian perfuafion they formed their churches after their own model. The Landon adventurers prevailed with feveral of the Englifhpuritans to remove, who being perfecuted at home, were willing to go any where within the king's dominions for the liberty of their confciences ; and more would have gone, could they have been fecure of a toleration after they were fettled ; but their chief refource was from the Scots; the firfl minifier of that perfuafion that went over was Mr. Edward Bryce, who fettled in Broad Ijland in the county of Antrim 1611. after him Mr. Robert Cunningham in Hollywood, in the ltd of tbeir county of Down. At the fame time came over three Engl/a mi. djdpüne. niflers, all puritans trained up under Mr. Cartwright, (viz.) Mr. Ridges Rapin, ofAntrim, Mr. HenryCalvert, and Mr. Hubbardat Garickfergus. After Loyalty thefe Mr. Robert Blair came from Scotland to Bangor, Mr. Hamilton to . 102, ro3. Belywater, and Mr. Levingflon to Killinfhy in the countyof Down, with Mr. Wella, Dunbar, and others. Mr. Blair was a zealous prefbyterian, and fcrupled epifcopal ordination, but the bifhop of the diocefe compro mifed the difference, by agreeing that the other Scats prefbyters of Mr. Blair's perfuafion fhould join with him, and that fuch paffages in the eflablifhed form of ordination, as Mr. Blair and his brethren difliked, fhould be omitted, or exchanged for others of their own approbation. Thus was Mr. Blair ordained publickly in the church of Bangor; the bifhop of Raphoe did the fame for Mr. Leving/ion; and all the Scots who were ordained in Ireland from this time to the year 1642. were ordained after the fame manner; all of them enjoyed the churches and tithes though they remained prefbyterian, and ufed not the liturgy; nay the bithops con fulted them about affairs of common concernment to the church, and fome of them were members of the convoation in 1634.. They had their monthly meetings at Antrim, for the promoting of piety and the extir- pation of popery. They had elfo their quarterly communions, bywhich meansgreat numbers of the inhabitants were civilized, and many became ferions chtiflians, Mr, Blair preached before the judges of afíize on the Lord's
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