JANUARY 20
To each of those of whose seriousness and good conversation I found no reason to doubt I gave a testimony under my own hand by writing their name on a ticket prepared for that purpose, every ticket implying as strong a recommendation of the person to whom it was given as if I had wrote at length: ‘I believe the bearer hereof to be one that fears God and works righteousness.’
Those who bore these tickets (these ... tesserae, as the ancients termed them, being of just the same force with the ‘commendatory letters’, mentioned by the Apostle), wherever they came, were acknowledged by their brethren and received with all cheerfulness.
to the Reverend Vincent Perronnet, 1748
I must declare just what I find in the book.
Journal, 2nd November, 1772
