ABSTRACT
The early part of this period presents little to be recorded in the lives and labours of the clergy very different to what has been related in the previous chapter. Their number, it is true, was small; nevertheless, they might have done more good if so disposed. In no part of the world was the influence of the clergy so insignificant as in the British West Indies, until far on into the nineteenth century. The legislature was not illiberal; a fair stipend was paid to each rector, from the colonial funds, munificent fees were provided by law, and legacies and gifts combined to make some livings extremely valuable.1
