exceedingly limited.* For in 1750, it was ordered that the committee appointed to manage the building of the chapel of Ease, should have power to take up any sum on interest, not exceeding one thousand pounds; and it was subsequently

Ordered, That the seal of this Coroporation should be affixed to Bonds for any sums of money that the Church Wardens might want, for carrying on the building of the chappel of Ease, not exceeding one thousand pounds more than the sum of one thousand pounds, already ordered to be borrowed.

the said Adam Vandenburgh four lots of twenty-five feet in breadth and one hundred feet in length each, where he then lived, for the term of twenty-one years, at the rent of forty shillings per annum for each lot. And in consideration of his having secured the ground at his own expense near the Bowling Green from washing away, it was ordered, that the said Adam Vandenburgh have the house where he then lived, to make use of as he should think convenient.

*In the spring of the following year, these entries are found on the minutes.

Adam Vandenburgh, the present Tennant of the churches farm, appeared at this Board, and agreed to rent the said Farm for a Year longer, from the twenty-fifth of March next, at the former rent of Forty pounds; that all the Land to the southward of the stockadoes, and the four acres agreed to be leased to William Burnham at the north end of the Farm, are excepted out of this lease; but that the said Adam Vandenburgh may use any of the Land to the southward of the stockadoes, while it lies open and unleased; that he is to cut no timber or wood off the Farm, and at the end of the term to leave eleven hundred and ninety pannells of sufficient Fence on the farm.

Adam Vandenburgh appeared at this Board, and agreed to lease the old Bowling Green for twenty-one Years, from the 25th of March next, at the rent of fifteen pounds per annum, the part of it already let to Elias Gruchie to be excepted.

The following presents, towards the building of the chapel, are noticed in the minutes:

Coll Robinson acquainted the Board, that Mr. Oliver De Lancey, by order of Sir Peter Warren, had this day paid him ten pounds sterling, (eighteen pounds this currency,) being the donation of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, towards the building of the chappell of Ease, for which this Board are very thankful; and it was ordered, that the Rector and Church Wardens return his Grace their humble thanks accordingly.

Mr. Oliver DeLancey acquainted this Board, that he had received a letter from Sir Peter Warren, directing him to pay one hundred pounds sterling towards the building of St. George's Chappell, and desiring, if it was not inconsistent with the Rules of the Church, that a Pew might be appropriated for Sir Peter and his family, in case they should come to this country; and Mr. DeLancey also acquainted this Board, that he was ready to pay the said money as this Board should order.

And this Board having a gratefull sense of Sir Peter's generous gift, ordered that the draught of a letter of thanks to Sir Peter Warren be prepared by Mr. Horsmanden, Mr. Chambers, and Mr. Nicholls, and that he be assured therein that this Board will take proper care to accommodate him and his family with a convenient Pew, whenever they shall come to this country, and that the said draft be laid before this Board at their next meeting. And ordered, that Mr. Oliver De Lancey be desired to pay the said hundred pounds sterling to Coll Robinson.

A committee was appointed to let the Pews in the chappell of Ease, who were authorized to let them in such manner and upon such terms as they should think most proper; and it was ordered that the same committee should have power to assign a Pew for Sir Peter Warren, another for the Church Wardens and Vestry, a third for the severall ministers and their familys, and another for strangers; and that they also should assign such pews as they should think convenient to be Free pews, and have the word free painted on the door of each of the said free pews; and that the committee should acquaint all persons that might be desirous to hire a pew in the chappell that had a pew in the Church, that they should be at liberty upon hiring a pew in the

chappell, to lett their pew in the Church, or permitt the Church to lett the same, and what such pew should let for should be deducted out of the Rent of the Pew they might hire in the chappell.

It was also

Ordered, That Wednesday, the first day of July, 1752, should be appointed for opening St. George's Chappell of this city, and that notice be given thereof in Trinity Church the two preceding Sundays; and ordered, that the Rector, Coll Robinson, and Mr. Mayor be a committee to wait upon His Excellency the Governour, and inform him thereof some time before notice be given in the Church.

St. George's Chapel was a very neat edifice, built after the plan of Robert Crommelin, a member of the Vestry, and an architect of considerable taste and skill. It was faced with hewn stone, and tiled.* It was ninety-two feet in length, exclusive of the chancel, and seventy-two feet in breadth. The steeple, which was lofty, but irregular, was one hundred and seventy-five feet in height. The chapel was situated in a new, crowded, and ill-built part of the town, and in its spaciousness, solidity, and beauty,

It being some time after represented to the Vestry, that the Pantiles on the roofe of St. George's Chappell were too weighty for the roofe and walls of the said chappell, it was resolved, that the said Tiles be removed and sold, and the roofe shingled; and that Mr. Reade, Mr. Marston, Mr. Cromelin, Mr. Mann, and Mr. Desbrosses, or any three or more of them, be a committee to agree with the Workmen and purchase materials for that purpose, and see the same done with all convenient speed, and that the Church Wardens pay the expense attending the same.

It was furnished with a fine large bell, which cost £88 3s. 2d. sterling.