JAMES S. M. ANDERSON, M.A. CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN, PREACHER OF LINCOLN'S INN, AND RECTOR OF TORMARTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. VOL. III. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. PREFACE. THE duties of an extensive Parish, which have devolved upon me since the publication of the second Volume of this work, have for a long time interrupted its further progress. Difficulties also inherent in the subject, which have increased as I advance, have retarded it not a little. The many adverse influences, at home and abroad, whose origin and earlier growth have been traced in the preceding Volumes, were felt, as they became fully developed, in every quarter of the Colonial Church; and a mass of conflicting evidence is connected with the consideration of them, which it was impossible to overlook, and has been no easy task to analyze. Whilst, therefore, in some instances, I have been necessarily led to connect the notice of former events with those of recent date, I have not attempted to bring down the general course of the History in this Volume |
