At all these Places I’ve been at, I read the King’s Proclamation against Vice and Immorality, which has had very good Effects. For thro’ want of Ministers to marry and thro’ the licentiousness of the People, many hundreds live in Concubinage -- swopping their Wives as Cattel, and living in a State of nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians -- I therefore made Public Notice ev’ry be given, that whoever did not attend to be legally married, I would prosecute them at the Sessions -- and that all who had liv’d in a State of Concubinage on application to me, I would marry Gratis -- Numbers accepted of my Offer, and were married, and then I baptize’d their Children…--Charles Woodmason, diary and sermon notes February 7, 1767
America has never had a King, that quote evidently predates us, and it covers more than marriage.
"Hence it is that above 30,000L Sterling have lately been expended to bring over 5 or 6000 Ignorant, mean, worthless, beggarly Irish Presbyterians, the Scum of the Earth, and Refuse of Mankind"
He was anti-revolution ""Rev. Charles Woodmason angered the local Patriots by performing the special liturgy authorized for that occasion, which stresses that those in authority—especially the King—must be obeyed, and read the homily on obedience (the traditional reading for this day), all as the Prayer Book rubrics directed.
That act, coupled with his refusal to publish at that service the “Brief for collecting Money for relief of the poor of Boston, (but in fact to purchase Ammunition)” according to Woodmason's 1776 memorial to the Bishop of London, led a local Patriot committee to advise him to “consult his safety”. He did so by returning to England.""