s together.

He should see that the Lord's Supper be duly and decently administered,
encourage People to frequent Communion, and instruct them in the Nature
of that holy Sacrament; and as for Baptism he should see that it be
rightly performed, and by the Bishop of _London_'s Directions should
prescribe the requisite Alteration in the last Clauses of the Form of
Baptism; as also those Alterations wanting in the Prayer for the General
Assembly, instead _of the Prayer for the Parliament_.

He should also visit such Sick as he passes by, and exhort all to a
timely Repentance, and not (as they too often do) to defer that and the
Sacrament till Death.

He should persuade and advise People as much as may be to christen,
marry, and bury at Church. He should likewise enquire if there be any
notorious and scandalous Livers, who by their wicked Practices give
Offence to their Christian Neighbours.

He should likewise see that the divine Service be performed regularly
and decently according to the Rubric, and exhort and direct thereto;
with Abundance more of such Things as these, which might easily be done,
if attempted in an easy, mild Manner; which might prove of wonderful
Advantage to the Good of Vertue and Religion.

Though the Office of this Dean should be chiefly to inspect, exhort,
reprimand, and represent, besides Confirming, and doing the common
Offices of a Clergyman; yet should he and the Vestry present at the
County Courts any egregious Default or Omission of the Kinds here
mentioned; but here they should be very tender and cautious not to give
general Offence, for Rigour will soon make such an Office odious to the
People, and then it will be but of little Service.

Presentments of this kind (when any) should be made, given in, and
prosecuted in the common Courts, in the same Form and Manner as common
Presentments are; so that here would be no Innovation in the
Proceedings.

In order to create more Respect for sacred Places and Things, the
Churches and Church-Yards there should be solemnly set apart for that
Purpose by the Dean, by some kind of Form of Consecration suitable to be
used by a Person that is no Bishop, and agreeable to the Occasion of the
Thing, and Nature of the Place.

Such a Person as this might do a vast deal of Good, and reduce the
Church Discipline in _Virginia_ to a much better Method than at present
it is in: For tho' the Church of _England_ be there established, yet by
permitting too grea