ΤΟ THE CHURCHWARDENS OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF BERKS, THIS CHARGE IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THEIR FAITHFUL FRIEND AND SERVANT, THE ARCHDEACON. The following Charge was addressed to the Clergy and Churchwardens conjointly. I mention this, to account for its beginning in the usual form of address. Very many of the sentiments expressed in it are to be found in Mr. Rose's "Six Letters addressed to the Farmers, on Tithes, &c.;" a publication eminently combining soundness and strength of argument, with felicity of expression and liveliness of manner. Reverend Brethren, BEFORE I advert to any other topic, I must be permitted to express the sincere gratification which I have derived from my recent Parochial Visitation, however imperfectly that Visitation may in some instances have been executed. I have been gratified by the opportunity which it afforded me of personal intercourse with very many of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry, and by the kindness with which I was received by them. I have been gratified also by seeing the good state of repair of the great majority of the Churches which I have inspected, that good state of repair being attributable, partly to the attention of their resident local guardians, the Ministers and Churchwardens, and |