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CHAPTER XIII.

Arrival at Cork—Pastoral charge—Manufactory—Happiness—Dissension in the Church—Resignatlon—Reply—Remarkable Dream—Visit fishing station—Death of Aaron—Become Fisherman—Removal to Bear Haven—Loss of the Robert—Bad season—Trading voyage—Successful fishery— Loss—Irish neighbors.

We landed in safety at Cork on the 24th December; 1694, and the agreement I had already entered into with the congregation was solemnly renewed. You can see the particulars in the Act of the Consistory of Cork, dated 19th January, 1695, on which day I commenced the discharge of my pastoral duties.

At first I preached in Christ Church, the use of it being granted to us after the English had finished the services of the day. We then assembled in the County Court-room for our worship; and finally, I gave up, for the use of the Church, a spacious apartment on the lower floor of my house, which we had regularly fitted up for the purpose with pulpit, benches, and every thing necessary.

My manufactory here was altogether different from that which I had carried on at Taunton. I considered it most for my advantage to make something for which there would be a demand near home. The great article of manufacture in Cork at that time was a sort of coarse baize, two yards wide. I thought I would try to make something better than that,