Justices. Governor Parr, whose bearings are among them, was entombed in 1791 beneath the middle aisle. It was for him that the New Brunswick Loyalists named the ancestral settlement on the St. John River, Parrstown, which later became the city of St. John. Here are the bearings of Governor Charles Lawrence, who undertook the removal of the Acadians. At a ball given at Government House in 1760 he drank water too cold, and as a consequence died of pneumonia. He was buried in St. Paul's chancel and a tablet erected. Being taken down during repairs it disappeared. Few of us will regret that it was never replaced—that the pitiless arbitrator of the fate of unfortunates has no memorial here among brave men.
In the chancel are the tablets of Sir John Wentworth, who was Governor between the years 1792 and 1808, and those of two bishops of Nova Scotia who were father and son. Dr. Charles Inglis was the first colonial bishop of any British possession in either hemisphere. From 1777 to 1783 he was rector of Trinity Church, New York. When he continued to pray from his pulpit that King George IV should "confound his enemies," colonial soldiers were placed in the aisle and ordered to arrest him if, on a certain Sunday, he did not desist from the treasonable practice. Needless to say, menacing bayonets had no effect upon his resolution. The petition for the British sovereign was presented as was his custom, the New Englanders
