As your Lordship expressed your desire to receive testimony from me of such young gentlemen as went over to England from this colony with a view to enter into holy orders I am to present to you Mr Burgess and Mr Johnston for ordination.
The inclosed letter from Mr Burgess' father (a clergyman of worth and much respected) will give you the truest picture of the characters of these two young candidates.
I must therefore request that your Lordship, will be graciously pleased to grant them ordination orders, and obtain for them Queen Ann's bounty and such other indulgence as in your known humanity, shall be agreeable to you.