The elders and messengers of the several Baptist churches meeting at Kingsbridge, Tiverton, Chard, Wellington, Croscomb, Frome, Crockerton, Sarum, Bradford, Melksham, Calne, Griddleton and Malmsbury, Broad-Mead and Pithay Bristol, Sodbury, Horsly, Cheltenham, and Bratton;-Having received letters also from Plymouth, Exon, Cullumpton, Prescott, Upottery, Loughwood, Stokegomer, Bicknell, Yeovil, Horsington, and Kingstanley; being met in association at Bratton, Wilts, the 21st and 22d of May, 1771, to the churches they respectively represent, send greeting. Honoured and beloved Brethren,