PROTESTANT DISSENT: VESTIGES GEORGE AUTHOR EYRE OF EVANS, IPSWICH. BY GEORGE H. BURGESS. LIVERPOOL : F. & E. GJ.BBONS, 19 RANELAGH STREET

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2 VESTIGES PROTESTANT DISSENT: BEING LISTS OF MINISTERS, SACRAMENTAL PLATE, REGISTERS, ANTIQUITIES, AND OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO MOST OF THE CHURCHES (AND A FEW OTHERS) INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ' OF UNITARIAN, LIBERAL CHRISTIAN, FREE CHRISTIAN, PRESBYTERIAN, AND OTHER NON - SUBSCRIBING OR KINDRED CONGREGATIONS. GEORGE AUTHOR EYRE OF EVANS, A History of Retzshaze* Street Chakel, Liverpool, 7887, Happy Hours of Work and Worshi$, 7889, Whitchurch of Long Ago, 1893; AND COMPILER OF Record of the Provincial Assembly of La~rcnslzire add Chdshire, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE H. BURGESS. IPSWICH. ST. NICHOLAS' STREET CHAPEL PULPIT. LIVERPOOL : F. & E. GJ.BBONS, 19 RANELAGH STREET

3 TO MY VENERABLE, OCTOGENARIAN FATHER, DAVID LEWIS EVANS, LIVERPOOL : D. MARPLES AND CO., PRINTERS, LORD STREET. Mirtistev of the Gospel at BLOXHAM AND MILTON, OXON, COLYTON, DEVON, I~structov of Yoztth at LLANWENOG ACADEMY, BRIDGEND ACADEMY, COLYTON ACADEMY, PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, CAERMARTHEN (alumnus ). Professov of Hebrew a~td Matltenatics,

4 CONTENTS. NOTE BY THE AUTHOR PAGE vii LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS LIST OF CONTRACTIONS xvi INTRODUCTION xviii I. MINISTERS ". XX 11. PLATE REGISTERS IV. TOPOGRAPHY xxiii xxiv ENGLAND I SCOTLAND WALES ADDENDA 326 UNITED BRETHREN OF CHESHIRE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF LANCASHIRE, ETC UNITED BRETHREN OF EXETER AND DEVON. 337 DUDLEY DOUBLE LECTURE. 344 OLDBURY DOUBLE LECTURE. 352 MONTHLY MEETINGS IN ITAR\VICI<SHIRE, ETC CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SOME UNITARIAN AND OTHER PERIODICALS 363 INDEX OF MINISTERS 369 X X ~

5 vii NOTE BY THE - AUTHOR. THE Author believes this book to be unique, so far is.the churches with which it deals are concerned. To the historical student it will be of value in giving him the main facts in the life of a congregation, from which he may possibly be able to build up its full and ample story; whilst to the general reader it will be useful in answering that oftasked question :-" Wheve can we find something about our cotgregation? " For ten years the Author has been collecting and verifying the details ; he has tried to do his best, but it is only to be expected that where some hundreds of names and dates are concerned, errors have crept in, and have not been discovered. Being himself a student, and deeply interested in the varied stories of the churches noted in these pages, he has long felt the want of such a volume of reference, and will feel amply repaid if his researches should prove of value to others. He has personally visited over zoo of the churches, and has inspected more than 500 separate pieces of the Sacramental plate, and other antiquities mentioned in these pages. The Author would be wanting in courtesy and in gratitude, did he not here heartily thank every one of his correspondents, clerical and lay, who have responded so willingly to his questions and enquiries. Where so very

6 ... Vlll many persons have helped it is impossible to thank all ; he knows no one will be offended if, as representatives of especial departments of assistance, he only here thanks by name :- The Rev. JAMES MARTINEAU, D.D., who in addition to many points of detail, so largely solved the knotty question of title, by suggesting one which should best describe the varied contents of the book, and who, in one of his letters to the author, says :-" I heartily wish, though I ca~tnot salzguinely hope, that yozcv valuable historical Zabougs inay clzeck the te?zdescy of our fellow-worshipping People to lose sight of the fil?zdarne~ztal anti-dogmatic principle of tlteiv forefatlze~s. The proteste~s agai~zst the abuse of the?tame' Unitaviafz' are, I feav, R small mi?zol~ity; the great mass of our co?tgvegations being as ini~h wedded to their type of ' orthodoxy' as the professon of tlte Westtnktstcr Confession of Faith to their ai~ztler foormulayy. Uader pffesent cii~cumstances the qsestion of title is dificult. O?z looki?tg over yozollr table of co~ztests, I fancied that the whole woz~ld be covered, a~td not nzore than covered, by such a Phrase as ' Docurlzents and Vestiges of Early No~scofifornzity of' (propev descl-@ions of the geographical range). If this phrase seems to proinise too much, as if a view were ofered of the whole of tlte local Nonconfo~?nity, it might be linzited by saying 'So~?ze D ocztnze?zts ad Vestiges.' The te~m 'Anti-tri?zita~iafi' is, I thi~tk, still rrzore misleading than ' Unitarian' US applied to the old corzgvegations legalised zuzder the Toleratio?t A c$." Rev. A. GORDON, M.A., who has revised some parts of some of the lists, including those of Irish congregations, some of which are here printed for the first time. Mr. WALTER J. EVANS, M.A., who has furnished the Anthor with a multitude of facts and figures relating to Ministers educated at the Caermarthen Presbyterian College, and whose researches into the history of Uni- ix tarianism in Wales have enabled him to render especial assistance in the compilation of the Welsh successions, most of which also appear in print in these pages for the first time. Rev. J. EDWIN ODGERS, M.A., the Hibbert Lecturer at 'Oxford, for information on many points. Rev. PEARSON MCADAM MUIR, D.D., of Glasgow Cathedral, for assistance as welcome as it was unexpected and valuable. The late DEAN (PYE SMITH) OF CANTERBURY; the DEAN and the CHAPTER CLERK OF WORCESTER; the REV. KENTISH BACHE, Vicar of Walford-on-IYye, and Mr. W. H. HAMILTON ROGERS, F.S.A., of Colyton, for the loan of rare volumes, and other help. The late Rev. EDWARD MYERS, F.G.S., Shrewsbury, for much painstaking, careful research and personal help ; characteristic features in his life well-known to those privileged to enjoy his friendship. Mr. J. HIBBERT SWANN, of the Manchester Free Reference Library, for carefully verifying many literary details. Of the 24 illustrations, no less than 19 are from the talented pen of Mr. GEORGE H. BURGESS, Ipswich, the bearer of an old family name long and deservedly honoured in Unitarian annals. His delicate and trustworthy sketches add materially to the value and the interest of the book they adorn. The Belfast illustrations are from blocks lent by Messrs. MARCUS WARD & CO.; the Whitchurch font is from a sketch by Miss S. A. DOIDGE, now almost the last friend living who knew the Author's grandparents and other members of his family in the old Colyton days. The photograph of the interior of the ancient Norman Chapel of Kirkstead, with the pulpit used ( ) by the Rev. John Taylor, D.D., of Hebrew Concordance fame,

7 was only secured in a way as original, as it was successful, under the most adverse of circumstances. In the prosaic but necessary matter of proof reading and corrections, the Author's thanks are tendered to a friend and companion in many years of common work and worship, who has always been ready to help in this and other ways. GEORGE EYRE EVANS. WHITCHURCH, SALOP, St. George's Day, LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Rev. Dendy Agate, B.A. Rev. Frederic Allen Rev. Edgar Solly Anthony, M.A., B.D. Rev. Kentish Bache Mr. Thomas Baring Mr. Philip Barker Mr. Malachi Blake Baker Mrs. C. Hutton Beale (late) Mr. Thomas Beecham Mr. Edward J. Blake Mr. William Blake Mr. Frederic H. Boult Lady Bowring Mr. Herbert Bramley Rev. Samuel Sidaway Brettle, M.A. Sir J. T. Brunner, Bart., M.P., Mr. George H. Burgess Mr. Samuel C. Burgess Rev. Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M.A. Rev. Andrew Chalmers Mr. Edward Cobb Rev. Charles Clement Coe, F.R.G.S. Mr. T. Alfred Colfox, J.P. Mr. William Colfox, J.P. Mr. J. Cogan Conway Mr. Charles Cornish (late) Mr. Joseph Coventry Mrs. Harris Crook Mr. George Bewlay Dalby Mr. Robert Dukinfield Darbishire, F.S.A. Mr. Robert Day, J.P., F.S.A., &c Rev. Henry Enfield Dowson, R.A. Rev. James Drummond, M.A., LL.D.,. Hon. D.Litt. Rev. Henry Eachus. J.P. Rev, David Lewis Evans Manchester, Chatham. Poole. Walford-on- Wye. London. Nantwich. Ilminster. Birmingham. Liverpool. Crewkerne. South Petherton. Liverpool. Exeter. Sheffield. Crewkerne. Liverpool. Ipswich. Crawley. Oxford. Wakefield. Lewes. Bournemouth. Bridport. Bridport. Ringwood. Enfield. Liverpool. Swinton. Birkenhead. Manchester. Cork. Gee Cross. Oxford. Coseley. Llanybyther.

8 xii Major John Eva~ls, V.D. Principal Walter J, Evans, M.A. Mr. Charles Fenton Mr. J. H. Forrester Rev. Arthur William Fox, M.A. Rev. Joseph Freeston Rev. Edgar Innes Fripp, B.A. Sir Thomas Gibbons Frost... Mr. Henry W. Gair, J.P. Mr. Walter B. Gair Rev. A. Gordon, M.A. Mr. Henry P. Greg, M.A. Mr. John A. Grew Mr. William Grisbrook Mr. James Groves Mr. William Barwell Halhed Mr. Charles Harding Mr. John S. Harding Alderman Andrew Sanders Harris, J.P. Mr. Fredk. Angier Harrison Mr. Percival Hart Rev. Henry W. Hawltes Mr. Benjamin Heape Mr. Richard Heape Rev. George Heaviside, B.A., F.R.G.S., F.R.Hist.S. Rev. Vernon Herford, B.A. Rev. Philip Martineau Higginson, M.A. Miss Florence Hill Rev. Charles A. Hoddinott Mr. Walter Holland Mrs. George Holt Mr. Robert Dnrning Holt, J.P. Mr. Thomas Holt, J.P. Mr. William Holt Rev. Edward S. Howse, B.A. Mr. Charles William Jones, J.P. Mr. David James Jones Rev. E. Ceredig Jones, M.A. Rev. T. Lloyd Jones... Liverpool. Caermarthen. Whitehall, S.W. Birmingham. Altrincham. Macclesfield. Belfast. Chester. Liverpool. London. Manchester. Handforth. Birmingham. London. Glossop. Liverpool. Birmingham. Nantwich. Plymouth. Hampstead, N.W. Highgate, N. Bootle. Prestwich. Rochdale. Coventry. King's Lynn. Monton. Hampstead, N.W. Chichester. Liverpool. Liverpool. Liverpool. Bury. Bury. Hampstead, N.W. Liverpool. Aberdare. Bradford. Liverpool. Xlll Miss Emily Kensett Mr. G. Knapton, Physician Mr. George H. Leigh Mr. Percy Highfield Leigh Rev. John Briggs Lloyd Mr. Willinm Long Mr. E. Basil Lupton, LL.M. Sir Philip Manfield, K.B. Mr. William Thomas Marriott, J.P. Rev. James Martineau, LL.D., S.T.D., D.D., D.C.L. Mr. David Martineau Mr. Williatn G. Mason Mr. Henry Jones McCance, D.L., &c. Mr. Richard Robert Meade-King Mr. Frederick Monlrs, J.P. Mr. Henry Jos. Morton, J.P. Mr. James Mottram Rev. Edward Myers, F.G.S. (late) Mrs. Nettlefold Mr. Fred. Nettlefold Mr. Albert Nicholsoil Mr. Francis Nicholson Mr. J. Hol~ne Nicholson, M.A. Mr. N. E. Norway Rev. J. Collins Odgers, B.A. Rev. J. Edwin Odgers, M.A. Mr. William Orrett Rev. George A. Payne Mrs. Pearce Rev. J. Arthur Pearson Mr. F. Heineken Perkins Rev. Clement Edwards Pike Miss Powell Rev. Charles T. Poynting, B.A. Mr. William Rathbone Mr. Richard Reynolds Rathbone Mr. Washington C. Rawlins Mr. Harry Rawson, J.P. Mr. John Ridley Horsham. Hapton. Swinton. Worsley. Liverpool. Warrington. Leeds. Northampton* Wakefield. London. Clapham, S.W. Liverpool. Dunmurry. Liverpool. Warrington. Scarborough. Norwich. Shrewsbury. Birmingham. Norwood, S.E. Sale. Knutsford. Wilmslow. Newquay, Cornwall. Bury. Oxford. Chester. Knutsford. Ipswich. Oldham Llandovery. Holywood, Co. Down. Whitchurch, Salop. Manchester. Liverpool. Menai Bridge. Waterloo. Eccles. Liverpool.

9 xiv Mr. Richard Robinson Mr. Arthur A. Rollason Rev. Charles Roper, B.A. Mr. John Henry Rowland Mr. Thomas Rowlands Mr. Thomas W. Ryland Mr. Joe Sagar Mr. Arthur Shute Mr. Rupert Simms Mr. George Hy. Skinner Mrs. Elizabeth Smith (late) Rev. George Vance Smith, B.A., Ph.D., D.D. Rev. Henry Shaen Solly, M.A. Rev. Robert Spears Rev. Thomas Perkins Spedding Mr. Dennis B. Squire Mr. Charles Stainer Rev. S. Alfred Steinthal Mr. Thos. Hedges Stillman Mrs. Suffield Miss Taplin Rev. Wm. George Tarrant, B.A. Mr. William Tate Mr. Stephen Seaward Tayler Mr. Frank Taylor, J.P. Rev. Thomas Thomas, J.P. Mr. Edward P. Thompson Mr. James Thornely Mr. Amherst D. Tyssen Rev. Charles Barnes Upton, B.A., BSc. Rev. Geo. Hamilton Vance, B.D. Mr. C. Walmsley Mr. Richard Watson Rev. Chas. Henry Wellbeloved Rev. James Thornely Whitehead Rev. Philip Henry Wicksteed, M.A. Mr. Geo. Wm. Rayner Wood, J.P. Mr. Humphrey Wood, F.S.A. Rev. Joseph Wood Birkenhead. Dudley. Manchester. Neath. Liverpool. Birmingham. Halifax. Liverpool. Newcastle-under-Lyme. Exeter. Birkenhead. Bowdon. Bridport. Highgate, N. Rochdale. Hampstead, N.W. Leeds. Manchester. Newbury. Reading. Birmingham. London. London. London. Bolton. Llandyssul. Whitchurch, Salop. Liverpool. London. Littlemore. Dublin. Manchester. Shrewsbury. Southport. Walthamstow. London. Manchester. Chatham. Birmingham. XV Mr. Thos. Broadbent Wood, J.P. Mr. William Henry Wood 'Mr. W. Fell Woods Mr. Frank Woolnough Mr. Ernest Worrall Alderman William Worrall Mr. Philip J. Worsley, J.P. Mr. Samuel Barton Worthington, W.1nst.C.E. Rev. John James Wright Berlin Belfast Birmingham Caermarthen Edinburgh Kidderminster Liverpool... London London London Manchester Manchester Manchester Newport, Isle of Wight Middleton. Huddersfield. Forest Hill, S.E. Ipswich. Liverpool. Congleton. Clifton. Bowdon. Atherton. LIBRARIES. The Royal Library. First Presbyterian Church (per Miss Rose Carruthers, Librarian). Birmingham Library, Union Street (per Mr. C. E. Scarse, Librarian). The Presbyterian Board for Caermarthen College. St. Mark's Chapel (per Rev. Robert B, Druntmolzd, B.A.) New Meeting House (per Mr. Josejh Highjeld, Warden). Renshaw Street Chapel (per Mr. George H. Morton, Jr., Hon. Sec., Library CO nzmittee). Guildhall Library (per Mr. Charles Welch, F.S.A., Librarian). Dr. Williams's Library, Gordon Square, (fey Rev. Francis Hy. Jo~zes, B.A., Lzb~farian). British and Foreign Unitarian Association Library, Essex Hall, (per Rev. W. Bo wie, Secretary). Cross Street Chapel Library, Free Reference Library, King Street (per Mr. C. W. Suttojz, Librarian). Unitarian Home Missionary College, Memorial Hall (per Rev. Johlz James Wright). High Street Chapel (per Mr. C. E. Pinnock). Lord Street Chapel (per MY. A. Marcroft).

10 xvi LIST OF CONTRACTIONS. Beard.... Dicke?rsou's Register nict. Nat. Biog... Heywood's Registcr Miall.... PERIODICALS. C.F... The Christialt Freeman, monthly (London), from July The Christtalt Life, weekly (London), from 20 hlay, C. P... The CJtristiaw Pioneer, from C.R... The Cliristia?~ Relormev, monthly (London), from Nortltowraat Register Jan., 1815-Dec., The Christiatt Unitarian, monthly (Belfast), from Feb., 1862-Jan., TJtc Disciple, a Magazine for Unitarians, and o:lter Christian Peofk (Belfast), from Jan., 1881-Dec., E. M. Y. B. Fellowship Inq... L. P. A... Seedsower.. U.A Essex Hnll Year Book, yearly (London), from Felloie~sh@, monthly (Norwich), from Aug., July, The Inquirer, weekly (London), from g July, A~tnual Report, with Review of the CJzzrrches of PYOvi7tcial Assenzbly... of London and ZJze South- Eastent Corcnties, Light on the Way, monthly (Manchester), from Jan., Live~/pooZ Unitavian Annual, yearly (Liverpool), from The Montlzly Repository, monthly (London), from Jan., 1806-Dec., The Pvotestaltt Dissentev's Magazine, monthly (Lon- don, from The Seodsower, monthly (Birmingham), from March, Tlze Southevfz Unita~iatt Magnzilte, monthly (Hastings), from Jan., 1888-Dec., The Unita~ia?~ Aknnlzack, yearly (London), from I 847- The Uaitaria7t Hevuld, weekly (Manchester), frcm 4 May, June, Record.... Wilson.... xvii BOOKS. U,zitarianism Exltibitcd in its Actanl Con:lition, J [ohnj R [elly] Beard, D.D., London, Histovy of Congvegatio~ral.isln... iit No~folk and Sufolk, John Browne, B.A., London, See Nortlzou~rast Regzsfer. Tlie Dictzonnry of National Bi~?g.~a$lv. See Nortlzowrant Registcr. Congregationalism in Yovks?~ire, James G [oodeve] Miall, London, The Matrchestev Socinian Controvevsy, London, A History of tjte Presbyteriafz and General Baftist Chu?vhes in tlte West of+ E~zglnwd, Jerom Murch, London, Lancasliire Nonco~zfornzzty, B [enjamin] Nightingale, 6 vols., Manchester [18g The Nonco~tfor~nist Register of Baptisnzs, Marviages, a?rd Deaths, compiled by the Revs. Oliver Heywood and T. Dickenson, , , generally known as the Nortkowranz or Coley Register,... edited by J. Horsfall Turner, Brighouse, Record of the A~ovincial Assctlzbly of Lancashire and Cheshire, compiled by George Eyre Evans, Manchester, Independency ilt Ft7arwickskire,... John Sibree and M. Caston, London, Histo~icul Sketches of Nonconfon~tity in tae County Palatirtc of Chester, edited by William Urwick, Manchester, TJcc History ttnd Antiquities of Dissc?tti~tg Churches and Meeting-houses,.... Walter Wilson, 4 vols., London, 1808.

11 sviii INTRODUCTION. IT will be noticed that the accounts of every church (arranged in alphabetical order of places) are divided into five portions :- (a). Dates of co~~,greg~~tions being fozozl~tded and beildings erccted. (b). List of mi?tisters and tlteigf years of ofice. (c), Plate nlzd other treasures. (d). Registef*~. (e). Topog~aphy. This arrangement has been adopted because it seemed the one which should best serve the purpose of giving such particulars as are of primary necessity in any enquiry respecting the history of a church. Generally speaking, it may be said that the particulars have been gathered into this small compass from the most trustworthy, and, in many cases, original sources. Documents, deeds, early treasurers' accounts, minute boolcs, and registers, have been made to yield their harvests. It is a regrettable fact, but one which has to be faced, that so many congregations seem to take little or no interest in their archives and muniments,-minute books, when finished, instead of being promptly deposited in the vestry safe (how few vestries have one!) generally remain in the secretary's private possession, with the inevitable result that, after his death, or his ceasing to hold office, they disappear, and in course of time are entirely lost. Far more attention is paid to the care of the congregation's coals, or its crocliery, than to its valuable MSS. and other records of the past. Cases could be cited, within the author's per- xix sonal knowledge, where papers of great historical interest were seen in one of the church libraries, and consulted so late as 1872, but which were lost in 1886; of a.n eighteenth century minute book being used to prop up a lame table; of a preaching diary or vestry register, containing more than forty autographs of different ministers, being found in the waste paper hole, ready for the next fire-kindling; to say nothing of that process known as " clearing out the rubbish," which "rubbish," before now, has included a memorial brass; rare old, but dusty volumes from the church library ; and time-yellowed papers from the vestry table drawer. With these forces continually at work, the wonder is not that we have lost so little, but that, fortunately, so much remains. On the other hand, some churches now exercise the greatest care in the custody of their archives. In one case, a series of well-kept minute books, unbroken from 1810, with MSS. of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are safely housed under the immediate control of responsible officials ; in another old congregation every deed and minute book has, for years past, been handed on from minister to minister ; whilst, in yet another church, a list of the manuscript books and other archives is kept in the vestry, with a note stating where they are to be consulted. By degrees, congregations will awake to a sense of their responsibility in these matters, and take more care of their records. (a). DATES OF CONGREGATIONS BEING FOUNDED AND BUILDINGS ]ERECTED, One word of warning seems necessary under this heading. The date of the beginning or founding of a congregation is one thing-often very hard to be exactly statedand widely different from that of the date of the building; but freqllciltly we fincl the two confounded. Too great care

12 xxi in this matter cannot be exercised by the historian who desires to give an accurate account of the congregation about which he writes. Every likely source should be explored if the work is to be of real benefit ; deeds should be hunted up, and carefully read; the building, if an old one, should be thoroughly examined for any dates which may be on the walls, the water spouts, the bell, the rafters, the pews, and the inscriptions on the earliest gravestones should be deciphered as correctly as possible; in fact,. nothing must be neglected as too insignificant, and nothing must be taken on hearsay only. Attention should always be turned to the reliable MS. volunles by Walter Wilson, stored in Dr. Williams's Library, Gordon Square, and to the early registers of the congregation, which will probably be found in Somerset House, Strand. Not infrequently, an historical account of the greatest value will be found in the baptismal or burial register, carefully and lovingly written there by some former minister who had access to sources now closed. (b). LISTS OF MINISTERS AND THEIR YEARS OF OFFICE. Here, again, we come to a fruitful source of error, especially in particulars of the earlier ministers. From a fairly long experience, the author thinks there is nothing more difficult, of its kind, than precisely to locate and time some of the ministers from 1662 to Care should always be taken to distinguish between minister and assistant; and, above all, never to assume, without some authority, that the successor must of necessity have been appointed immediately his predecessor died, or ceased in his office as minister. In these pages more than ordinary care has been taken in this matter, but the author feels sure there must still be cases of inaccuracy, and he will feel obliged to anyone who \vill direct his attention to them. In hunting for particulars of a minister, and with little or no data to guide him, the historian cannot do better than first try to get the date of death. With this in his possession, he most frequently has.the key which will unlock the treasure-house. Some biography or obituary will probably be found in local or denominational periodicals about the time of death, or included in any funeral sermon which may have been printed. For particulars of the ejected men of 1662, there is Calamy's Account, 1713, and Continuation, 1727, abridged in Palmer's Nonconforntist's Memorial, first edition, 1775 ; second edition, Attention should be given to " Evans's List," as it is popularly known, being Lists of Presbyte~iaqt, Indepe?tde?zt attd Baptist Congregatio~ts in Englafzd, prepared for Dr. John Evans, , and now stored in Dr. Williams's Library. A printed version of this, more or less inaccurate, is given in The History of the Litigatiort and L cgislatiort Reshectifzg Presbyterian Chapels aud Charities in England and Wales betwee~t 7876 and 7849, by T. S. James (1867). The Record of Unitarian Wo'orthies (1877)~ the Record of the Provi~zcial Assenzbly of Lancashire afzd Cheshire (1896)) and the Dictiolrary of Natio~zal Biography, now approaching completion, and to be found in most public libraries, will all be of use to the historian. Unless where much searching has failed to discover them, the Christian name or names of all ministers should always be printed in full. By not adopting this course, endless confusion has been and still is being caused between contemporary men having the same initials. (c). PLATE AND OTHER TREASURES. In describing the plate, the term chalice is used for a vessel with two handles and a foot. All the primitive chalices have handles, the definition of cnlix being a cup

13 sxii with two handles and a foot. The cup without handles seems to have been originally a secular vessel, but came into sacred use at the time of the withdrawal of the cup from the laity. The various styles of chalices, cups, beakers, and pots will be found in the illustrations. So far as the author is aware, there are no golden vessels in the possession of any of the churches-only those of silver, pewter, and plated metal. Amongst the oldest pieces are one of the cups ( ) at George's Meeting, Exeter; one of the beakers ( ?) a-t Great Meeting, '17armouth; and the peculiar chalice ( ) at Platt Chapel, Manchester. Many and varied have been the author's experiences in hunting up particulars of plate and other treasures. He has walked some hundreds of miles, touring about amongst the churches in the United Icingdom. The storehouses in which he has seen the plate range 'from bankers' and jewellers' vaults in the bowels of the earth to the modest bandbox under the caretaker's bed ; from u~tder the Communion table, when not on it, to an unprotected washhouse; from the coalhole, under the gravedigger's tools, to the sale in a grocer's shop. In the matter of defunct congregations and closed churches, some of their plate has fortunately found its way into the safe custody of Dr. Williams's Library; and in one notable case, that of Warminster, into the hands of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association ; but much is lost, or now in private hands. Not without thought the author ventures to suggest that plate, and other articles of historical interest once owned by these dead congrcgations, should be deposited either with the trustees of Dr. Williams's Library, London, or Manchester College, Oxford. What really does become of such plate? It gener~ll~~ passes into the keeping of the last or senior trustee. In time he dies. What then? Disappearance, loss, and-probably through want of bnowledge by executors or snrvivors-sale, and ultimate appearance as a sugar bason on some lady's tea table. The author knows of four sets oi plate, formerly owned by as many defunct congregations, which are now in the keeping of private individuals. One of the sets consists of two silver beakers, made and assayed between 1691 and Not infrequently, the inscription on some article of the plate gives us the name by which the place of worship was known in the last century, or earlier. Blackley is a case in point. Here the two fine pewter patens are engraved with the words, " Blackley Dissenters' Chapel, 1791 ;" to-day we read an illustrated article on " Elackley Unitarian Chapel!!" 0 teulzpora! 0 Inores! It is the author's dearest wish that, should any attention be drawn by this book to the valuable plate and other tregsnres owned by the churches, it will result in greater care being taken of them, and more interest centred upon them in the future. (d). REGISTERS. Under this heading the author has given particulars of. the non-parochial registers formerly in the possession of the churches, and now in the custody of the Superintendent Registrar at Somerset House, Strand. On 13 September, 1836, Commissioners were appointed to enquire into the state, custody, and authenticity of nonparochial registers. Letters of enquiry were sent to the various churches in England and Wales requesting information, and suggesting the transfer of the records to Somerset House on the plea of safe custody and facility of access. This request was optional, and some congrega-

14 tions (Gorton, Stourbridge, etc., e.g.) declined to part with their registers, whilst other congregations secured certified copies before allowing the originals to go to London. Down to 1889, access free of charge was enjoyed by properly accredited persons to search and make extracts from these records for historical and literary purposes. In that year the Registrar-General refused free access, on the ground of want of necessary accommodation for applicants. The matter was promptly brought before the House of Commons, and Government was asked by Mr. J. Carve11 Williams, M.P., to make representations to the Registrar- General to restore the facilities enjoyed for many years. On 30 May, 1895, it was announced in Parliament that "the Registrar-General has made arrangements for the accommodation of any gentleman whose application is backed by an introduction by any M.P. or other wellknown person, and who wishes to consult, for literary and historical purposes, the Non-parochial Registers and Records which are deposited at Somerset House. No fees will be charged for searching the registers by persons duly accredited." Since that date, every facility has been granted. The particulars given as to the dates of the registers, etc., are taken from a, copy of a Blue Book of 1841, in the author's possession. (e). Full particulars of the authorities consulted will be found in the List of Contractions ; whilst works and histories peculiar to the church under consideration will be found in the Topography. With one or two exceptions, the author has in his library all the histories and monographs mentioned. ENGLAND. ACCRI NGT0M.-OXFORD STREET. Date of Congregation, May, Opened, Good Friday, 1868; preacher, John Wright, B.A. IVilliam Robinson William Mitchell Elijah Whittaker Hopkinson Joseph Harrison James Ruddle Inq., 18 Ap., Recovd, p. I. Opened, 1715 ; enlarged, 1773 ; restored, "Nonconformists had zdse of Wilson's MS. Cockey Chapel 3 St~zd~ys out of 4 till 7777."-W.

15 John Lever (us Noncoffornzist) John Crompton., 1689?-1703 John Seddon.. Joseph Whitworth? ?-1722? Peter Seddon Joshua Dobson I Thomas Barnes, D.D Joseph Bealey John Kings ? Joseph Bealey (2nd time) Jacob Brettell James Whitehead.." 18r James Thornely Whitehead Ephraim Turland Robert Wilkinson Walter Reynolds, B.A * Cups (2), silver, 52 inches tall, bell ; foot. Paten, silver, 10 inches in diameter. Flagon, silver and, glass, 10 inches tall. REGISTERS. I, Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials IV. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p C. R., 1845, p Pvesbytevia~zism ilz A ifisworth, Ephraim Turland, I 878. U. H., Sept., Nigkti~zgale, vol. 3, 1892, p Igzq., 12 Nov., Recovd, p. 2. Opened, 1721/22 ; first before Samuel Tickner.. Joseph Porter Richard Rogerson George Brodhurst Benjamin Evans Benjamin Maurice.. Christian Newton Saint John Hancock, szi$jzy Thomas Warren Szbfplies...m. William Henry Eastlake Thomas Wilson Scott Sufjlies Closed.. a. John Dale... St.tpplzes zcstder M.C. U. Mr. Warren used to bring his own," Herbert New, trustee, REGISTERS. I. Births, Baptisms, Deaths M. R., 1823, P C. R,, 1840, p C. R., 1861, p Ifiq., a2 July, Ifiq,, 29 Sept., Seedsowev, 1895, pp. 168, 181.

16 ALLOSTOCK. Date of gathered Church, 2 March, First Chapel before Restored and galleries removed, Robert Bury (" Pastov ").. Robert Holland ("Teacher," i.e., colleague).... Samuel Garside William Vawdrey John Lightbown.. Samuel Eaton, D.D.. William Turner.. _ John Holland, szifily George Buxton, John Holland,,!.. John Palmer, If Benjamin Stapp, Martin Lawton,,, Taylor,.,f. James Green, I).. Jarnes Glover, p~eaclzer.. Joseph Ashton..... Henry Green, M.A.... John Briggs Lloyd James Black, M.A. George Andrew Payne... REGISTERS. I. Births, Baptisms, Burials... I 779- I 823 M. S. C., p U~zelick, p Recovd, p. 5. Date of Congregation, Opened, 18 Dec., 1872; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. First chapel in Shaw's Lane, opened 8 Sept., 1814; preacher, John Yates. Robert Harrop,.. William Jevons Charles Wallace, M.A. James Thornely Whitehead George Browne Brock, J.P. John Gammell, B.A.... Andrew Macreight Creery, B.A. Edward Samuel Howse, B.A. James Edwin Odgers, M.A. John Briggs Lloyd... Hubert Clarke, A ssistafzt... Frank Kerry Freeston, CO-pastor Arthur William Fox, M.A.... Cups (z), silver, 8 inches tall, bell, knop, stem, foot. Date letter, London, Inscription on bell of each :- ALTRINCHAM CHAPEL. Paten (I), silver, 10 inches in diameter. Date letter, London, Inscription:- ALTRINCHAM CHAPEL. Flagon (I), silver, 14% inches tall. I. H. S. Date letter, London, M. R., 1814, p M. S. C., p C. R., P Inq., 28 Dec., YOUY Inhevitance, James Edwin Odgers, M.A., I 894. Recovd, p. 8.

17 ASTLEY. Date of Congregation, Opened, I April, 1866; preacher, James Relly Beard, D.D. Richard Carling A- M- Rodgers John Entwistle......, Peter Holt I'q., I July, Igzq., 15 June, Recovd, p. 11. Built John Sheffield Christopher Smalley., John Reynolds John Pruthero....* William Buckley Richard Wright Independents hacl use of Clzajel. Obadiah Bennet Stijplies... Thornas Davis John Owen Charles Case Nutter Closed Let to I.rzdepende?zts

18 Thomas Bowring Henry Webb Ellis John Dale Richard Elliott Birks William Robinson John Howard None here," Sam. Austin, REGISTERS. I. Baptisms NOTE.-Atherstone baptisms are also entered in Chesterfield-Elder Yard-Register No. I, M. S. C., p Sibvce, pp. 238, 403. Opened, 1722 ; first chapel about ATHERTON. CHOWBENT CHAPEL. ONE OF THE "MORT" C~PS James Wood (I) James Wood (2) William Davenport Samuel Mercer Harry Toulmin Benjamin Rigby Davies Thomas Walker Horsefield, F.S.A. John Harrison, Ph.D... Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A.

19 Edwin Davies., Marmaduke Charles Frankland James Kirk Pike John James Wright Cup (I), silver, 62 in. tall, bell, knop, stem, foot. Date letter, London, Inscription on bell, R. M. Cup (I), silver, 7% in. tall, bell, knop, stem, foot. Date letter, LOIZ~OPZ, Inscription on bell, R. M. NOTE.-Mr. Thomas H. Hope, Atherton, writing to G. E. E., on 14th November, 1891, says:-"both cups you will see are marked with the initials R. M. The donor, Robert Mort, Esq., of Wharton Hall, Little Hulton, who was the warm personal friend and benefactor of James Wood, the Chowbent minister, silenced in 1662, and who is mentioned by Adam Martindale. The flagon and paten are of great age ; the lid of the flagon is loose, and shews tokens of much usage, as also does the smaller chalice." Paten (I), pewter, g$ in. diam., 2& in. tall, foot. Flagon (I), pewter, 7+ in. tall, lid (loose), handle, beak, plain. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms and Burials Baptisms Burials M. R., 1815, p M. S. C., p C. R., 1849, p Life and Times of Rev. Jnnzes Woods (sic), F. Baker, I 859. C. L., 2 March, Ervovs about A theyton, Thomas H. Hope, Iq., I I March, A theyton Obsevvev, 15 March, Tyldesley and A thefjton Chvoutz'cle, 22 March, I 895. TyldesZey TVeekly Jouv~znl, 29 March and 12 April, Nightingale, vol. 4, 1892, p. 95. Recovd, p. I 2. Opened 16 August, 1850 ; preacher, Charles Wicksteed, B.A. First chapel opened Stephen Davies George Hampton, M.A. Peter Usher Cubitt Boardman Hubbard Henry Hunt Piper * * a James McDowell..a Charles Case Nutter David Heap..a William Birks Henry Hill "Lost; not been heard of for a great length of time." M. Jones, Banbury, NoTE.-I~ Joseph Cornish (min. Colyton, ) preached here; he says that "the large church at Banbury had fallen down, and for some years the ministers of the Establishment were accommodated with Mr. Hampton's spacious place of worship, marriages and every service being carried on there authorised by an Act of Parliament. The hours for worship were so ordered that the different congregations had both morning and afternoon services, and occasionally an evening lecture. On one of the Sabbaths J. Cornish preached three times, and besides the usual services, the sacrament was administered to the members of the Establishment." cf. M. R., 1823, p REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms M. R., 1823, p C. R., 1850, p. 576.

20 Date of Congregation, about Opened, 20 Sept., 1870 ; preacher, James Christopher Street. Foundation stone laid 31 August, 1869, by Mr. William James Lamport. First met in Mr. Archibald Elliott's house ; next in a meeting-room in Broad Gates. NOTE.-Inscription on marble tablet in the church : This Church is erected to the Memory of George Brown, barrister-at-law, fou twentyjive years a member of this Congregation. He died on the 12th March, 1868, agcdfifty-seven years. Elijah Whittaker Hopkinson Joseph Lee William John Taylor Joseph Taylor Sutplies - Inq., 4 Sept., lulq,, I Oct., C. F., 1870, p. g. Built, 1795 ; restored, First chapel in Frog Lane (now New Bond Street), opened Christopher Taylor *.. *.. Benjamin Coleman, D.D. Henry Chandler.. a.. Bennet Stevenson, D.D. John Frank m *...I. 0,, Edward Armstrong.. David Jardine.. Thomas Broadhurst.. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. S.. Jerom Murch..... Robert Wallace,.. "... Robert Campbell William James Odgers John Wright, B.A... Francis William Stanley.... Chalices (2), silver, 4+ inches tall. Monogram on each, between handles, and under this inscription :-For the we of the Meeting in Fvog Laule, Bath, London date letter, Patens (2), silver, 9% inches diameter, each 3 legs, I inch tall, and on centre same monogram and inscription as on chalices. London date letter, I REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms Births and Baptisms ' IV. Births and Baptisms V. Births and Baptisms

21 BATTLE.--CHRIST CHURCH, formerly GREAT MEETING, Date of Congregation, 28 March, 1780; opened William Vidler.. William Thrussel Stephen Blundell Thomas Bridger.. James Taplin... William Thomas Philip Vincent Coleman George Hoade Edward Hall... George Kenrick.... Edward Parry J- Jeffery William Wynn Robinson John Thomas, B.A... John Jennings, B.A. Williarn Birks... James Bayley Peter Dean John Atkinson Briggs... Cups (2), electro, 8 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. each, I. H. S. in glory. Patens (2), electro, 8 inches diameter, plain. Flagon, electro, 10 inches tall, lid, beak, handle. + I. H. S. in glory. Candlesticks (2), brass, g inches tall. On bell of In front- REGISTERS. I. Births Burials..U C. R., 1834, Sept. no., p. 3 of advertisements. C. L., 27 Ap. and 4 May, S. U. M., , pp. 7, 22, &C. L. P. A,, p. 21. Date of Congregation, 1782? Erected, George Lee. 1789?-1799? William Marshal1 S John Jones Evan Owen Jones S David Peter Davies John Williams John Ebenezer Williams Rees Lewis Lloyd Charles Cowan John Kertain Smith Cups (2), silver, 8 inches tall, bell, stem, foot, plain. Patens (2), silver, 74 inches diameter, plain. M. R., 1806, p M. S. C., p History, G azettee~, and Directory of Derbyshive, Samuel Bagshaw, Sheffield, 1846, p. 290.

22 ..m.s p W \ br BESSELL'S GREEN.-OLD MEETING HOUSE. Date of Congregation. about MINISTERS. William Jeffery 1640?- John Reeve. John Jeffery (son of no I) Joseph Brown James Calverly James Calverly (nephew) Thomas Harrison Stephen Colgate. Assistaat Samuel Benge John Stanger. Assistant Edward Marshal1 M- Harding John Briggs John Atkinson Briggs Edward Hammond Henry Green John Joseph Marten.. William Edward Mellone Robert Maxwell King. steward.-p%\ PLATE. Cups (2). pewter. plain. Patens (2)) pewter. plain. REGISTERS. I. Births Burials TOPOGRAPHY. III,~., 10 and 17 Nov., Inq., 7 Sept., A L. P. $., p. 20. Built. about MINISTERS. Henry Oasland. M.A. i703 Edward Oasland Job Barret 1725?-I739 John Reynolds 1745?-I749 John Adams Evan Jones Edward Parry John Jones a Supplies REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms TOPOGRAPHY. Histovy of Bewdley. John R. Burton. B.A., p. 49. In+. 29 Ap., Seedsower pp Built MINISTERS. William Evershed * William Turner John Jeffery 1815 Thomas Letter Taylor Edwin Chapman William Chinnock

23 J- S- Hyndman Gideon Duplock William Joseph Blakeley James Malcolm James Cooper,.. Maxwell Davidson Edward Hall... John Shearman John Ellis.. Edward N- Dennys.. Robert Yelland..+ John Farmer Kennard Robert Bishop Blackburn Thomas Timmins Chalices (2)) silver, 3 inches tall. Inscription on each- J. K. J* NOTE.-Wm. Evershed, trustee and secretary, writing to me on 28 July, 1891, says, " J. K. means James Knight.'' He was a maltster in the village about The two oak coffin stools in chapel are inscribed I. K., 87. G. E. E. Patens (2)) pewter, 12 inches diameter, plain. Flagon, plated metal, modern, 8 inches tall. REGISTERS. I. Burials Inq., 24 Sept. and I Oct., L. P. A., p, 21. Date of Congregation, Opened, 27 Aug., 1851 ; preacher, George Armstrong, B.A. MHNISTEBS. Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. S.... m John Davies, M.A. S.. John Pope, Ph.D... William Binns William Oates. S. *. a William Binns (29td tinze) a.. James Edmund Stronge James Crossley a.. Cups (2), silver, g inches tall, plain bell., hexagonal pierced stem, knop, foot. Patens (2), silver, 10 inches diameter, modern. All given by Mr. Blackburn, a member of the congregation, but not inscribed. C. R., 1851, pp. 576, 632. The Vision of S. Louis, William Binns, I 881. Has ~hotographs of Church inte~ioor and chnncel widow. Inq., 29 Sept., Recovd, p. 15. Date of Congregation, Opened 7 October, 1885; preacher Charles Beard, B,A., LLD. First meeting-house built, Second meeting-house opened 4 October, 1795 ; preachers, Radcliffe Scholefield, a.m., and John Coates, p.m. William Turton, M.A Daniel Greenwood Edward Brodhurst B

24 Daniel Mattock..... Joseph Wilkinson William Howell Samuel Clark... Radcliffe Scholefield Nathaniel Nickols, John Coates.. I Robert Kell..... John Corrie, F.R.S. Stephen Weaver Browne, B.A. Hugh Hutton, M.A. Charles Clarke.a* Joseph Wood... Chalices (4), silver, 53 in. tall, bell with plain band round it, foot, 2 handles. London, date letter, Flagons (z), silver, 13f in. tall, lid, handle, no beak, plain. London, date letter, Patens (4), silver. Inscription on rim : Old Meeting Chzcrch, Birmingham, 1885." In centre 1,H.S. London, date letter, These 4 patens given by Messrs. Prime & Son, on. the occasion of the rebuilding of the church. REGISTERS. I. Births, Baptisms I Births, Baptisms TOPOGRAPHY* Mewtorials of the Old Meeting Hozcse and Bzcrial Grozmd, Catherine Hutton Beale, An Account of the Opening Services of the New Church, on Wednesday, October 7th, 1885, with sewnon preached by Charles Beard, B.A., Birmingham, I 885. Letters of Cathehe Hutton, edited by her cousin, Mrs. Catherine Hutton Beale, Birmingham, Seedsower, 1894, p. 73. BIRMINGHAM.--CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, formerly THE NEW MEETING. Date of Congregation, Opened I January, 1862 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. First meeting-house built Second opened 19 April, 1732 ; preacher, Samuel Bourn. Third opened 22 July, 1802 ; preacher, Thomas Belsham. - Sillitoe.. Thomas Pickard.. Samuel Bourn. Samuel Blyth. William Hawkes -. Joseph Priestley, LL.D.. John Edwards.. David Jones.. John Kentish Joshua Toulmin, D.D... James Yates, M.A..*..*. John Reynell Wreford, D.D. Samuel Bache... Henry Enfield Dowson, B.A. Henry William Crosskey, LL.D. Richard Thomas Nicholson, B.A., Assistant James Crossley, Assistalzt Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, M.A. Chalices (4), silver, 6$ inches tall, bell, stem, foot, two handles. London date letter, Maker, H. B., in shield. Bought by minute of Vestry, 18 Nov., 1782 Patens (4), silver-plated on copper, shelving rim I# inches wide, flat centre 6% inches diameter ; all stand on 3 round knobs & inch tall. Makers I W. & R. 1, i.e., Wilmot & Roberts.

25 Flagons. None now, but it is said that formerly there were two. In Nov., 1781, the Vestry of the New Meeting proposed to purchase " a sett of plated cupps and flaggons." Minute of Vestry, 5 Nov., Alms dishes (4), 104 inches diameter, soup plate form. Makers, 2:. i.e., Yates, Birch & Spooner. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births Baptisms B*e Deaths Not dated Baptisms... *a IV. Baptisms I V. Births and Baptisms Sketch of the History of P~esbyterinn Nonconfor~~ity in Bivtnivtgham, Rev. J. R. Wreford, Pro testa& Nonconformity in Bivnzinghfiwt, Rev. J. Angell James, C. R., 1860, p, 576. C. R., 1862, p. 126, Ce~tenavy of Church of Messiah S~unday Schools, Herbert New, Junr., Birmingham, Opened 8 Aug., 1847; preacher, George Dawson, M.A. Closed 29 Dec., 1895 ; preacher, James Christopher Street. George Dawson, M.A Edmund Squire, Assistant., William Potter, Assistagzt 1850 John Page Hopps, Assistaqzt Edward Myers, F.G.S., Assistant William Joseph Knapton, Assistant George St. Clair Nicholas Hennessey James Christopher Street Edward William Lummis, B.A., A ssis tnnt C* R*, 1847, PP* 644, 742, 749- Ifzq., 4 Jan., Date of Congregation, 29 June, Opened 10 July 1840 ; preacher, George Harris. Chancel opened 13 Sept., 1896 ; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D. Laymen '.. James Cranbrook.I* james Cooper.. Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. Laymen John Cuckson Robert Laird Collier, D.D. Samuel Fletcher Williams.. William Mellor....D. Addison Alexander Charlesworth.,. Chalices (4), electro, 7+ inches tall, plain, two handles. Patens (+), electro, 83- inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), electro, II* inches tall, handle, beak, lid with Latin cross erect. No inscription, but all given by Mr. Thomas Prime in Baptismal bowl, electro, foot, two handles. Inscription :- PRESENTED TO THE UNITARIAN CHURCH, NEWHALL HILL, BIRMINGHAM, BY THE WARDENS, THOMAS PRIME AND THOMAS PRIME, JUNR., AUGUST, 1862.

26 C. R., 1835, P C. R., 1837, p C. R., 1838, pp. 141, 212, C. R*, 1839, pp* 442, 547,565. C. R., 1840, p C. R., 1841, p C. F., 1872, p C. L., 22 June, History of New Hall Hill Chz6rch mzd Schools, Bk/mingham, John Stych, Seedsowev, 1893, p Opened 6 Dec., 1884; preacher, James Drummond, LL.D. First chapel built, Thomas Pyke, B.A "P John Brook or Brooks John Heywood. Thomas Valentine John Helme, szt,pjly James Benn Thomas Gwatkin, M.A. John Pope Thomas Broadhurst John Pope (2nd time) William Harrison. Abram Lunn John James Bishop, B.A. Adam Rushton Joseph Freeston Henry Thomas Basford James McLaren Cobban. B. John Ellis.L..S George Street S Chalices (2), pewter, 5 inches tall, bell, foot, two handles. Patens (2), pewter. Inscription in centre of each BLACKLEY DISSENTERS' CHAPEL. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Burials I M.S.C., p History of Bla~kley Chakel, John Booker, B. A., I 854. C. R., 1860, p A brief history of Blackly Unitavim Chapel. [1881.] Nightingde, vol. 5, 1893, p. 27. L. on W., 1893, p Recovd, p. 17. Date of Congregation, Opened I August, 1883 ; preachers, Henry Ierson, M.A., a.m., and John Page Hopps, p.m. Ml[NI[STER%. Abram Birtles Camm Francis Haydn Williams Abram Birtles Camm (2nd time) John Farnsworth William Binns ~893-

27 TOPOGRAIPI3Y. Inq., 4 and I I Aug., Record, p. 20. and Date of Congregations, before Ceased to exist, Thomas Whatley Andrew Durell, M.A ?-I725 James Hancock * Edivard Nicklyn ?-1747? Thomas Brabant Benjamin Carpenter Samuel Withers Joseph Jevans David Lewis Evans REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms M. R., 1824, p C. R., 1840, PP. 4-53, 489. Itzq,, 31 Aug., Inq., 28 Sept., Opened zr August, 1856; preacher, Robert Brook Aspland, M.A. House in Deansgate licensed First chapel licensed 22 Sept., Robert Park -. aftev Richard Goodwin, M.A John Lever Robert Seddon, M.A Samuel Bourn....., 1@ Peter Withington... * Thomas Dixon, fvil?z?cs John Buck ?-1750 Thoma S Dixon, secu~zdus PhilipHolland # a William Hawkes, assista~zt John Holland Noah Jones Franklin Baker, M.A Jeffery Worthington, E.A Charles Clement Coe, F.R.G.S Christopher James Street, M.A., LL Cups (2), electro, g$ inches tall, bell, knop, stem, foot, no handles. Paten (.I), electro, g$ inches diameter, stem, foot. Flagon (I), electro, 149 inches tall, handle, lid, beak. All bought in 1856 with money presented to Rev. Franklin Baker, M.A., for the purpose. \ REGISTERS, I. Births and Baptisms 11. Sirths and Baptisms M.S.C., p Rise and pvog~ess of No~zco~zfo~v~zity Bolton, Franklin Baker, M.A., C.R., 1854, p C.R., 1856, pp. 567, 625. Nightifzgnle, vol. 3, 1892, p. 6. Eecovd, p. 2 I.

28 Date of Congregation, Opened 16 Dec., 1893; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D. First chapel in Commission Street opened 22 Feb., 1868 ; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. John Entwistle Albert Lazenby John Bevan John James Wright James Crossley Herbert Mann Livens Inq., 7 March, Izq., g and 16 December, Conzwission Street Yeav Book, 1893, p. 23. Recovd, p. 24. Date of Congregation, April, Opened 25 March, 1895 ; preacher, Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M.A. First met in Bootle Town Hall. MINISTER. Henry Warburton Hawkes L.U.A., 1893, p Inq., 30 March, C.L., 6 April, Recovd, p. 25. Date of Congregation, Opened 21 June, 1820 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. First meeting-house opened 26 Aug., 1804 ; preacher, Charles Wellbeloved ; school-house built, John Platts.. David William Jones George Lee Griffith Roberts John Jenkins, M.A... James Malcolm Abram Lunn Peter William Clayden.. John William Lake Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. Thomas Timmins William Wynn Robinson.. Alfred Hood.... Henry Alexander McGowan William Simpson Key William Edward Atack Chalice (I) copper plated, 6 inches tall, bell with lip, foot, two handles. Origin unknown. REGISTERS. I. Burials... I Uziversnlists' Miscellmy, I 802. Utzivevsnl Theol. Mag., I 804, Sept. M. R., 1819, pp. 199, 687. M. R., 1820, p. 482.

29 Wvight's Missiolzavy Life, I 824, P. 61. M. R., 1826, pp. 568, 587. The History and Antiqztities of Boston, Pishey Thompson, 1856, P* 2339 Date of Congregation, Opened 6 May, 1891 ; preacher, John Page Hopps. MHI6ISTERS. Alfred Hood Edward Samuel Howse, B.A George Hamilton Vance, B.D Samuel Bendred John Briggs Lloyd Charles Clement Coe, F.R.G.S Ilzq., 16 May, C. L., 25 April, John Smith John Dean, M.A Henry Turner Nicholas Thomas Heineken George Vance Smith, B.A., Ph.D., D.D John Howard Ryland Thomas Wesley Freckelton Richard Pilcher, B.A William James Knapton John Cuckson Evan Ceredig Jones, M.A Chalice (I), silver, 5% inches tall, ornamented bell of Queen Anne style, two handles. Inscription :- J. D. London date letter, March to May, Also a modern electro set of two chalices and two plates. Also one oval electro dish. Date of Congregation, Opened 3 June, 1869 ; preacher, Charles Wicksteed, B.A. First meeting-house in Chapel Lane, built 1718, (conveyance 2 Dec., 1719). Meetings were held in private houses from Indulgence of There was a meeting-house at Little Horton, built 1689, licensed 1690, MXNHSTIZRS. Nathaiiiel Priestley... me Eli Dawson Joshua Hardcastle I. Baptisms Baptisms... I Baptisms and Burials M. S. C., p Histovy of Bvadford, John James, F.S.A., 1866, p Continuation to the Histovy of B~o,dfovd, John James, F.S.A., 1866, p English Pr~sfiyte?~t/innism ilz Bvndfovd, Richard Pilcher, B. A., I 868. Minll, p C. F., 1869, p. 59. Iq., 5 June, 1869.

30 Date of Congregation, 1695? Built by William Bagshawe. Vl7illiam Bagshawe John Ashe John Boult Daniel Gronow Robert Kelsall.,...*. David Evans Astley Meanley William Allard Richard Nayler.. Robert Shenton Richard Cowley Smith Henry Webb Ellis Robert Stuart Redfern R. S. Redfern writing to me, 2 Aug., 1891, says :-a We have no trace of any, although the communion service used to be an important service with the congregation in the old days, judging from the prominence given to it in the deeds." G. E. E. M. S. C., p BR1DGWATER.-CHRIST CHURCH CHAPEL. Date of Congregation, before Opened 18 May, First chapel built, John Norman, B.A..*a John Gardener John Moore (I) John Moore (2) Matthew Towgood Thomas Watson John Howell.., Henry Houson John Tingcombe.. William Steil Browne Evan James Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. William Arthur Jones, M.A.... Samuel Alfred Steinthal.. Alfred Wm. Worthington, J.P., B.A. Thomas Holland, B.A. William Chatterton Coupland, B.A. Robert John Orr, M.A. Thomas Timmins.. James Edwin Odgers, M.A. James Skuse Baily William Rodger Smyth Thomas Bennett Broadrick Chalices (2), silver, 4% inches tall, 5 inches in diameter; each two handles ; gilt lined. Under the rim of each chalice is pounced :- A. W London date letter, On the bottom of each chalice is the inscription (probably added in 1849) :- CHRIST CHURCH CHAPEL, BRIDGWATER. The following entry I copied from the Treasurer's MS. book, in custody of W. T. Holland, The Lions, Bridgwater, on 16 August, G. E. E. :- 'g May, The Trustees of the Presbyterian Meeting-house in

31 Bridgwater bought of John and Mary Sealy two large silver qt. Cupps, wch. weighed 28 ounces at 6s. per oz., which came to $8 8s. od., and are in my custody, witnes my hand, being mark'd wth. the letters A. W., Jams. Watts." I also copied the following entry from the same book, at the same time, relative to another cup, which is not now (1896) in trustee's possession, of which they have no knowledge, and of which I fail to hear anything.- G. E. E. :- '' I acknowledge that Robt. Balch, Esq., delivered to me a silver Quart Cup, wt. 14 ozs., with the Arms of his Family engraven on it, which is to be wholly for the use of the Presbyterian Society in Bridgwater at the Administration of ye Lo.'s Supper, and not as my property, witness my hand, this first day of Jan., 1753, Sam. Baker." Patens (2), electro, g inches diameter, plain. Inscription on bottom of each- '' CHRIST CHURCH CHAPEL, 1849, / BRIDGWATER." REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials Muvch, p. 175 Date of Congregation, Opened g March, 1794 ; preachers, Samuel Fawcett, a.m. ; Thomas Howe, p.m. Mr. Gelding's house (gradually altered to a meeting-house) licensed Richard Downe.." Samuel Baker..* n~zr Robert Drewitt Thomas Collins William Sutton. George Waters..... Thomas Howe - 4 George Barker Wawne.. S.... a. Robert Cree *.. Philip Harwood....* Robert Edward Barnes Maclellan.. John Lettis Short Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. Henry Galloway, Assistant.. S.. Halliwell Thomas, Assistant John Davies, M.A. Henry Shaen Solly, M.A. Chalices (2) silver, 6 inches tall, plain bell foot, two handles. London date letter, Roughly scratched on each chalice, below the rim, and between the handles :- H C Patens (2)) pewter, plain. REGISTERS. 3+ I. Baptisms... I Baptisms Baptisms IV. Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p F MZLYC~, p History of the Bvidkort U~titnuignn Congreggntion, a paper read by T. A. Colfox, at the celebration of the chapel centenary, March gth, Bridport, W. & E. Frost.

32 Date of Congregation, 7 May, Opened 20 August, 1820 : Preachers, John Morell, LL.D, a.m. ; Thomas Rees, LLD., p.m. First chapel, in Jew Street, opened April, Second, in Cavendish Street, opened July, 1812 ; preacher, Robert Aspland. MINISTERS, John Morell, LL.D James Cowdan Wallace John Philip MalIeson, B.A Robert Ainslie Thomas Robert Dobson, J.P Alfred Hood $ Chalices (2), copper, silver-plated, 74 inches tall, plain, each two handles. Patens (2), copper, silver-plated, g2 inches diameter. Flagon, silver, 108 inches tall, handle, knob, lid, and beak. London date-letter, Inscription :- PRESENTED TO THE REV. ROBT. AINSLIE BY J. G. MARZETTI FOR USE OF THE COMMUNICANTS AT CHRIST CHURCH, NEW ROAD R., 1812, p M, R., 1819, p iif. R., 1820, p C. R., 1820, p C, L., 4 March, Christ Chuwh, Brigktolz, printed by H. J. Infield, London, I 890. L. P. A., p. 21. BRISTOL.--LEWIN~S MEAD. Date of Congregation, about Built, First chapel built, John Weeks *S. MINISTERS*.** - Sinclair.... Joseph Kentish,.. Strickland Gough.. Michael Pope *.S Samuel Bury, John Diaper...., Wiliam Richards.. TIlomas Wright.S. John Prior Estlin, LLD. a...a. John Rowe a.. Lant Carpenter, LL.D. *.I Robert Brook Aspland, M.A. George Armstrong, B.A..I. William Jarnes v..,** Robert Crompton Jones, B.A. Ambrose Nichols Blatchford, B.A. Calices (4), silver, 43 inches tall, bell with band, foot, two handles. Inscription on the four :- THE GIFT OF M. W. TO YE CONGREGATION LEWINS MEAD, BRISTOL, London date letter, NoTE.-O~ one chalice '' Lewens " not Lewins." Patens (4), silver, 10; inches diameter, plain. London date letter, Inscription on upper rim of one paten only- THE GIFT OF MR. WILLIAM BEVERSTONE TO THE CONGREGATION IN LEWINGS MEAD, 1728.

33 Flagon (I), silver, 14+ inches tall, cover, lid, knob, beak. Inscription on front- THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME, encircling a Latin cross, and surrounded with two palm branches. Inscription on base- PRESENTED BY THE LADIES OF THE LEWIN'S MEAD CON- GREGATION, IN THE 22ND YEAR OF THE MINISTRY OF THE REV. WILLIAM JAMES AND THE 7TH OF THE REV. R. C. JONES, DECEMBER, London date letter, I Cruets (2), glass, deep green colour, g inches tall, handsome cutting on shoulders. No stoppers now. Used in Communion service as late as 1862, when there were three; so one now missing. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms M. S. C., p C. R., 1834, p Broad~ead Records, I 847> p C. R., 1851, p. 43. Mztvch, p. 97. Some account of the rise and ~vogvess of the Ancient Society of Protestant Dissenters wovshefing ilz Lewilz's Mead, Bristol, compiled by Christopher James Thomas, J.P., Bristol, BURNLEY.-TRAFALGAR STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 11 Feb., 1871; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. William Robinson Alexander Stradling John William Rodgers Thomas Bennett Broadrick George Thomas Walters Thomas Leyland John Boughey Arthur Cobden Smith Inq., 18 Feb., C. F., 1871, p. 57. Record, p, 26. BURY.-BANK STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 22 Oct., 1852 ; preacher, Charles Wicksteed, B.A. First in Silver Street, built 1719; Second in Bank Street, opened 10 Sept., 1837; preacher, Thomas Madge. Thomas Braddock,,. John Hughes William Allard Franklin Howorth John Wright, B.A. John Collins Odgers, B.A., Assistant. Douglas Walmsley, B.A. John Collins Odgers, B.A. Cups (2), silver, 8 inches tall, bell, knop, stem, foot. Patens (2), silver, 8 inches diameter, 2 inches tall, foot. Flagon (I), silver, 13+ inches tall, handle, lid, beak. All date letter, London, ; inscription on every article :- GIVEN BY ELIZABETH GRUNDY FOR THE USE OF THE COMMUNICANTS WORSHIPPING IN BANK STREET CHAPEL, BURY, 25 DEC., 1852.

34 REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms. ~ Burials M. S. C., p C. R., 1837, p C. R., 1850, p C. R., 1852, p, 698. C. F., 1867, p C. L., 23 Feb., Inq., g April, Nighthgale, vol. iii, 1892, p Bury Tinzes, 30 Nov., Record, p. 28. BURY ST. EDMUNDS.-CHURCHGATE STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 30 Dec., 1711 ; preacher, Samuel Bury. Previous chapel opened, William Folltes Samuel Bury... a.. Samuel Savage.. Robert Wright.. Thomas Steward, D.D. Josiah Follett. William Lincolne Evan Johns Nathaniel Phillipps, D.D. John Grundy. John Rudd, F.L.S. Thomas Madge, Sujply William Pitt Scargill.b. Robert Mortimer Montgomery Henry Rnott Joseph Aikin Newell Hugh Hutton, M.A John Ferrar, B.A ~-1881 Edgar Solly Anthony, M.A., B.D X John Farmer Kennard r!rpk~,...l v. Cups (4), silver, 7& inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. Patens (4), silver, g+ inches diameter, plain. Inscription :- 7 (0 ST. EDMDS~BURY...,- REGISTERS. I, Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms, , Births and Baptisms.,, M. S. C., p Browne, p Inq., 27 April, Date of Congregation, before Opened 15 May, 1875 ; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. First chapel opened 1725; restored John Jackson - Holland Richard Scholefield.., William Harrison George Buxton Supplies

35 John Harrison, Ph.D John Thomas Cooper Andrew Macreight Creery, B.A Richard Cowley Smith M. S. C., p Inq., 22 May, Date of Congregation, before Built by the Order of Black Friars in Bought by Peter de la Pierre, an Anabaptist, in 1658; purchased for meeting-house with moneys bequeathed by Samuel Ongley and another. First occupied by General Baptists about Philip Chapman Sampson Kingsford.*. John Farrin.. Samuel Wood Alexander MacNamee Walker Alfred Hardy,.. Charles H- CIarke Robert Eclward Barnes Maclellan... John Jennings William Smith Thomas Cromwell, Ph.D., F.S.A.... William Bennett John Murray John Moden C~~il Abdy Greaves, D.C.L. Alfred Joseph Marchant John Remington Wilson, M.A. Cups (4)) electro, 6& inches tall, plain, gilt lined. Patens (2)) electro, 9% inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), electro, g* inches tall, plain. REGISTERS. I. Births 1~80-18~6 Burials Taylor's Hist. Gelz. Baptists, 1818, i, 162, 273, 351. M. R., 1821, p C. R., 1859, P Caaterb.uvy in the OZdeg Tim8, John Brent, F.S.A., 1879, p S. U. M., 1888, pp. 39, 54, 92. Inq., 15 Sept., L. P. A., p. 22. Date of Congregation, Opened 18 Dec., 1889; preacher, William Carey Walters. First meeting place, Temperance Hall, Caldewgate. William Henry Lambelle Charles Travers Ifiq., 25 May, U. H., 31 May, Ifiq., 28 Dec., NOTE.--For copy of historical document placed in sealed bottle in foundation stone-laid 15 May, 1889, by Lindsey Middleton Aspland, M.A., LL.D., Q,C.-see Inq., 25 May, 1889, p. 323.

36 Date of Congregation, before Opened 20 Feb., 1889 ; preacher, William George Tarrant, B.A. Chapel in Heavyside Lane opened l Gamman - - Morecock D George Saunders -- Baker -.*a Joseph Seaton John Baker.% *b John Cundell Edwin Chapman 1823 Thomas Felix Thomas Thomas Simpson Joseph Calrow Means William Henry Quinn James Phillips Abram Lunn.,...* Alexander Ashworth Robert Edwards Barnes Maclellan 1873?-1880 John Sutcliffe Henry Wheaton John William Brown Frederic Allen Cups (2), electro, gilt lined. Patens (2), pewter. REGISTERS. I. Births Burials Taylor's Hist, Gen. Baptists, 1818, i, p Wood's Hist. Gen. Bnftists, 1847, p Coffin's Trzcth's Testimony, I 655. Itzp., g and 23 Feb., Inq., 7 Sept., CHELMSFORD.--LEGG STREET, Date of Congregation, Opened 4 Feb., William Annetts Pope Joseph Crowther Hirst Supplies Ifzq., 15 Feb., L. P. A., p. 23. Date of Congregation, Aug., Opened Good Friday, 1844 ; preachers, John Kentish, a.m. ; and George Armstrong, B.A., p.m. School house opened 6 May, First meeting room, in Mechanics' Hall, opened 22 March, 1835 ; preacher, George Browne Brock, J.P. Second meeting room opened 25 June, 1837 ; preacher, Timothy Davis. No~~.-This inscription is on a marble tablet in the church :-- I this Church as a tribute of affection to the memory of Thomas Furber, the founder of the present Congregation, who for a long period of years bore earnest testimony to the sanctifying influence of Unitarian Christianity by the loftiness of his teaching and the purity of his life. Died November XI, 1874, aged 79 years. " Enter thou into the joy of thy Mrd."

37 F- B- Barton, B.A. 1836, Francis Bishop Lewis Lewis., Henry Solly,., John Dendy, B.A John Gow, B.A David Griffith Joseph Crowther Hirst Ephraim Turland 3 188$$393 Theodore Parker Broadbent, B.A George Walter Lewin, Mzcrch, p. 19. C. R., 1835, p C* R*, 1844, PP* 390, 491. c. L., 13 July, Date of Congregation, Opened 8 Aug., 1700 ; preacher, Matthew Henry, V.D.M. Gallery built 1706 ; restored John Glendole, M.A. William Cook William Tong... Matthew Henry, V.D.M.., John Gardner..... Peter Withington, Colleague Robert Murrey, Colleague... Benjamin Street, Colleagzce... John Chidlaw.. William Thomas. James Lyonst;.... James Parry, SuPPly CHESTER. MATTHEW HENRY'S CHAPEL

38 William Johnston Bakewell Robert Brook Aspland, M.A "Mortimer Maurice James Malcolm Simon Frederick Macdonald John Knowles Montgomery Henry David Roberts The 'c MATTHEW HENRY " chalice, a fine silver porringer, fluted, 4+ inches tall, 5 inches diameter, On shield, between handles, M. H. London date letter, The "STATHAM'' chalice, a fine silver porringer, fluted, elaborately worked, 4 inches tall, 59 inches diameter. On shield, surmounted by cherub's head and wings :- THE GIFT OF MRS. HANNAH STATHAM TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHAPPEL IN CHESTER, TO BE USED AT THE LORD'S SUPPER On base, faintly scratched :-I.H.S. London date letter, I The "BEVAN" CUPS (2), silver, 8+ inches tall, plain bell, stem, knop, foot. Inscription round bell of each :- THE LEGACY OF MRS. MARY BEVAN TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION IN CHESTER London date letter, I Patens (6), pewter, plain. Flagons (2), pewter, lid, handle, beak, plain. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Burials Births and Baptisms Burials... I M. S. C., p C. R., 1845, p C. R., 1863, p. 12. Uywick, p. 12. C. F., 1867, p Record, p. 31.

39 CHESTERFIELD.-ELDER YARD Date of Congregation. before Opened 1694 ; enlarged MINISTERS. Thomas Ogle Robert Ferne.*. *vs Joseph Foolow 0.. Thomas Elston.. John Thomas Christopher Smalley James Heywood Thomas Astley.. l George Kenrick Robert Wallace, F.G.S. Alfred Turner Blythe Thomas Hunter Alfred Turner Blythe (ZGH time) Francis Bishop a.. John Frederick Smith Alexander Farquharson George Evans, M.A..*. Ambrose Bennett, M.A. PLATE. Cups (2). silver. 6p inches tall. bell. stem. foot. plain. London date letter Patens (2). pewter. plain. Underneath :- COMUNION. REGISTERS. I Baptisms.. I I1. Births and Baptisms Burials NOTE.-NO. I contains also Baptisms at Atherstone. Warwickshire..

40 M. S. C., p C. R., 1837, P History of Ckesterfeld, 1839, article on pp. I 15 et seq., by Robert Wallace. CHICHESTER. RAFFINS LANE. I Opened 1688? John Willis John Corbett John Buck Jofin Earle..,.., Robert Bagster ?. - John Predden. n Thomas Joel John Heap -...., Thomas Watson William Youatt William Johnson Fox John Fullagar Chapel closed 1861 to 28 Jan., Richard Elliott Birks Charles Alexander Hoddinott., There are two silver caudle cups of unique design. One is a- ; inches tall, 6 inches diameter. London date letter, ,., p! L weight 13 oz. The other, of very similar shape and design, is 42 inches tall and 5 inches diameter ; same date letter, weight d 8 oz. 15 dwts. Patens (2), pewter, 13 inches diameter, probably of Queen Anne's reign and originally part of a pewter dinner service. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms L, " I :.,:

41 M. R,, 1823, p Inq., I Nov., S. U. M., 1888, p. 74. Ground for present chapel bought George Smith.. James Austen William Smith Richard Drinkwater... Matthew Rendell Matthew Austen '.., J- Spershott Isaac Mott.. -Foster? Sampson Kingsford? -Canton? Gabriel Watts ChaPel closed John Hill, B.A. Richard Elliott Birks Charles Alexander Hoddinott Chalices (2), silver, 4% inches tall, bell, with band under rim, stem, foot plain ; each two thin handles ; time of Charles 11. Patens (2), pewter, 13 inches diameter, similar to those at Chichester, Baffins Lane. Taylor's Hkst. Gen. Bapt., 1818, i, 292. S. U. M., 1889, p CHOPPINGTON. Date of Congregation, Opened 28 Nov., 1868 ; preacher, James Christopher Street. Elijah Whittaker Hopkinson Thomas Leyland William John Taylor Ifiq., 18 April and 5 Dec., CHORLEY.-PARK Opened Samuel Bourn John Bent Joseph Lawton Syddal, sz~pply William Gaskell -- Jarvis < * I W illiam Tate Henry Clarke James Bayley Abram Lunn S.. George Ride STREET ante 1770 Chalices (2), silver, plain bell, foot. Inscription on bell of each :- THE GIFT OF MR. ABM. CROMPTON CHORLEY CHAPEL. REGISTER, I. Births and Baptisms D

42 50 M. S. C., p Nighti~gale, vol. ii, 1891, p. I. Rccovd, p. 35. CIRENCESTER.-GOSD~TCH STREET. Date of Congregation, Built before Restored and reopened, 15 Jan., 1891 ; preacher, Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M.A. Alexander Gregory - Beeley Stephen Worth John Keeling... Skinner Smith John Evans Joshua Parry... Habakkuk Crabb.. Eliezer Cogan John Kings.,. Richard Fry James Holt John Read.., Anthony Dixon Frederick Horsfield C~zapeZ closed Henry Austin... Chalice (I), silver, 5+ inches tall, bell plain, with band round middle, foot. Inscription on bell, between band and rim :- B. GURNEE. Also on shoulder of each handle :-B Patens (2), electro, plain. M~rch, p. 23. C. R., 1845, p Ifiq., 24 Jan., CLIFTON.-OAKFIELD G. London date letter, ROAD. Opened ro Nov., 1864 ; preacher, James Martineau, D.D. William Hargrave, M.A Stopford Wentworth Brooke John Frederick Smith ~ Charles Davies Badland, M.A hq., 12 NOV., COLCHESTER.-OLD MEETING. Date of Congregation, First list of trustees of the meeting-house, "then newly erected," is dated 10 March, Razed Owen Stockton, M.A. - d. 10 Sep., 1680 Edward Warren, alias Sidling, M.A. - d William Folkes - d. before 1690 Daniel Gilson - d. 28 Feb., 1728 Robert Franks, Assistant - George Wightwick, Assista~tt Richard Harrison 1738 John Tren 1725-d. 17 June, 1738

43 Charles Bulkley Gillibrand Napthali Hussey? Assistant? - James Throgmorton d 1753 Thomas Stanton, D.D William Waters Rees Harris Isaac Taylor Richard Drake 1810?-1812? Joseph Herrick Joseph Charles Meeke Swedenborgians and others used chapel prior to when George Rickword bought it ; sold by his trustees. and razed REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms I1 Births and Baptisms 'TOPOGRAPHY M R., p 635 M. R., p Missionary Labovs. Richard Wright. I 824. p Histovy of Colchestev. Thomas Cromwell M. S. C., p Davids' Eva~g. Nomonf. in Essex p History of Litigation of ~iesb~terian Chapels. T. S. James p Ifiq., 4 and I I Jan., Notes fvom Geovge Rickwovd. Public Librarian. Colchester. June Date of Congregation Opened 2 August. 1879; preacher Charles Beard. B.A., LL.D. MINISTERS. William Matthews Herbert Vincent Mills James Bullock Gardner Thomas Leyland Thomas Leyland (2nd time) TOPOGRAPHY. In g. 16 Aug., Record. p. 37. COLYTON.-- GEORGE'S Date of Congregation Built about MINISTERS. S.. a.. John Wilkins.. John Gill John Kerridge, M.A. John Rosewell Samuel Short William Youatt.. Samuel Slater Joshua Toulmin, D.D...P Matthew Anstis v...i. Joseph Cornish a.. George S key G- F- Matthew oh Smith a.. J d James Taplin James Cooper David Lewis Evans Alexander McCombe William Brunton Richard Edward Dunne Henry Morgan Dare David Lewis Evans (2nd time) Henry Morgan Dare (2nd time) John Sutcliffe a.. MEETING.

44 Cup (I), silver, 10 inches tall, bell, stem, foot; no date. Patens (2), pewter, plain. REGISTERS, I. Baptisms IT. Baptisms I Burials I M. S. C., p iw~t~ch, p C. R., 1844, p C. R., 1845, p Iq., 28 Feb., Book of the Axe, Geo. P. R. Fulman, 1875, p NoTE.-I~ the Parsonage adjoining the Meeting I was born, 8 Sept., 1857, and in the Meeting I was baptized, 27 Sept., 1857, by Benjamin Mardon, M.A. In the graveyard rest my great-grandmother, Mrs. Kingdon (d. 1845, aged 92) ; my grandfather, Corn. Geo. Eyre Powell, R.N. (d. 1855, aged 65) ; and grandmother, Catherine Powell (d. 1862, aged 74) ; their eldest daughter, my mother, Ophelia Catherine Evans (d. 1566, aged 42); my uncle, Geo. Eyre Powell, and other members of our family.--g. E. E. Date of Congregation, Opened 30 May, 1883 ; preacher, Henry Ierson, M.A. First Chapel opened 1687 ; preacher, Eliezer Birch. Second Chapel opened George Moxon... Privately George Moxon Eliezer Birch 1668?-l688 Tho~nas Irlam?jc~.e Bejove [1738?] Joseph Bourn ?-1745 Richard Shaw ?-1748? Robert Robinson, D.D. Benjamin Dawson, M.A., LL.D., Occnsiorzal key.... S.. William Turner.. Thomas Astley.. John Willding John Boult heve Bristowe Cooper George Chadwick John Roebotham befove James Hawkes..a Thomas Jones Theophilus Browne, M.A. William Fillingham... v.. James Clayton Williams Iden Payne.. George Henry Smith John Henry Liguori Christien Cup, electro, 6 inches tall, bell, foot. Paten, electro, g inches diameter. Flagon, electro, g inches tall, handle, lid, beak. Inscription on lid of oak chest :- THIS COMMUNION SERVICE WAS PRESENTED TO THE UNITARIAN CHURCH BY THE REV. JAMES BRIERLEY, MOSSLEY WALL, CONGLETON, MAY, NoTE.--T~~ Rev. James Brierley, M.A., Catztab, J.P., died 29 Dec., 1887, aged 74. Re was first incumbent, and for 25 years vicar of Mossley Church, which was built on ground given by his uncle, Mr. James Brierley. The vicar resigned in 1871, having "adopted doctrines more in accord with Unitarianism." Me became a benefactor of this church by preaching, teaching, and gifts ; and actively interested himself in its schools and services until his death. He was the largest contributor to the fund for the erection of the present handsome church.-g. E. E. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms S. a

45 M. S. C., p UrwiCk, p. I5 I. A Brief History of Conglcton Unitarian Chapel, George.Pickford, Ifiq., g June, Conglcton, Past and Present, Robert Head, 1887, p A Page of Local History, John Christien [18g1]. Record, p. 38. COSELEY.--OLD MEETING HOUSE. Date of Congregation, Opened 10 Aug., 1875 ; preacher, George Vance Smith, D.D. First Chapel opened, 1717 ; Enlarged, Joseph Eccleshall Paul Russell - Peach George Doughty Uftited to New Meeting, Birfizifzgham, William Edwards Richard Amner Samuel Parker IVilliam Allard Evan Owen Jones Richard Fry John Small.., John Cooper John Gordon William Whitelegge, M.A John Fife Manderson John Calbraith Lunn Joseph Eades Fletcher William Orr McGowan Henry Eachus, J.P Chalice (I), copper, silver-plated, 52 inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. No inscription, but gift of Thomas Thornely, M.P. Patens (z), pewter, g* inches diameter, plain. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Burials S.. MS. History of Cradley Presbyterian Church, James Scott, 1800, p NOTE.-This valuable folio, enriched with drawings, engravings, and portraits, is in the custody of the minister for the time being of the Park Lane Chapel, Netherend, Cradley. MS. Records of the Presbyterian Church, Stourbridge, Mr. William Scott, vol. iii [about 18oo], p NOTE.-These three valuable volumes are in the custody of the minister for the time being of the Presbyterian Chapel, Stourbridge. M. S. C., p The Paralos, F. L. Beeton Lye, July, 1888, p. 2. Seedsower, , p Built 1700, " with the pernzissiolc and the blessi~rg of A l~nighty God.''-TRUST DEED. Obadiah Grew, D.D and John Bryan, D.D Samuel Wills? [ Jarvis Bryan Thomas Shewell, M.A William Tong Joshua Oldfield, D.D John Warren

46 Joshua Merrel Richard Rogerson... John Partington, M.A. Francis Blackmore... Ebenezer Fletcher.. Robert Atkinson Thomas Jackson Posthumus Lloyd Peter Emans Timothy Davis... - Jeremiah Donoghue William Bowen, M.A Henry William Gardner Wreford John Gordon., Thomas Hunter George Heaviside, B.A Cups (4), silver, 73F inches tall, bell, plain, thick stem, foot. Inscription on two :- E. E. London date letter, Patens (4), electro, 8 inches diam., plain. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms, M. R., 1819, p M. R., 1820, p M. R., 1822, p M. S. C., p Sibree, p. I. Coventry Worthies," Trkity Parish Magazine, I Coventry, its Histovy alcd Antipitier, Benj. Poole, 1870, p CRADLEY.-PARK LANE. Date of Congregation, Opened 15 May, 1796 ; preacher, James Scott. First Chapel in Pensnet Meadow, opened 1707, burnt Second Chapel, same site, opened 1716, closed 8 May, Josiah Basset Joseph Fownes W Noah Jones.,. a.. Joseph Baker... James Scott Benjamin Carpenter William Bowen S.. a... * S S.. William Cochrane James Crossley,". Arthur Ellis O'Connor, B.D. Edward Potter Hall, B.A.... Chalices (z), pewter, inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Inscription on bell, between handles :- PARK LANE CHAPEL, CRADLEY. I 796. Patens (2), pewter, g inches diameter. Same inscription. Flagon (I), pewter, 10% inches tall, lid, beak, handle. Same inscription under beak. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms

47 TOPOGRAPHY. MS. Histovy of Cradley Presbyterian Church. James Scott. I 800. No~~.-This valuable folio. enriched with drawings. engravings. and portraits. is in the custody of the minister for the time being of this chapel. M. R., p. 6. Ewly Histovy of the Presbyterian Cong~eg~tion. Stourbridge. A. W. Worthington. B.A., par; ii. pp etc. Date of Congregation. 1668? Built First Chapel in Bell Court. MINISTERS. John Pope ?-1688 Robert Care Josiah Eveleigh Peter Jillard Roger Flexman, D.D Micaijah Towgood John Berry John Hogg William Jillard Hort Thomas Reynell Jarnes Holt John Edwards Henry Davies, LL.D John Lewis. m Gabriel Watts 1812 Lewis Lewis George Pullin Hinton John Johns John Owen William Maccall Alexander McCombe Franklin Bradley James Taplin William Sunderland Smith Charles Frederick Biss Edwin Henry Bollard PLATE. Cup. silver. 8 inches tall. Inscription :-. JOHANNA MADGE. TO THE BOWDEN HILL CHAPEL REGISTERS. I Births and Baptisms I1 Baptisms I11 Births and Baptisms TOPOGRAPHY. Murch. p. 453 Inq., g Aug., CREW E.-BEECH STREET. Date of Congregation Opened 24 Sept., 1865 ; preacher. John Hamilton Thorn. MINISTERS. William Mitchell Benjamin Glover William John Smyth Thomas Wilson Scott 1872 William Mellor Harry Bode11 Smith Robert Stuart Redfern

48 Inp., 7 Oct., L. U. A., 1892, P Record, p. 43. MuYC~, p Iq., 6 April, CREWKERNE.-HERMITAGE STREET. Date of Congregation, 1665? Built Jarnes Stevenson * Robert Knight S.. John Collier. S.. -Hallett S.. William Blake..B William Blake, Jun.... S.. William Wilson e., Samuel Walker. John George Teggin a.. James McDowell.., Joseph Eades Fletcher *. J- Jeffery, M.D.. Charles Matthews B.. B... m William Robinson John Murray Abram Lunn.., 1886 Westevrz Uniolz ifz charge Su$jEies I Mugs (2), silver, 4 inches tall, 3 inches diameter, each one handle. London date letter, ? Much worn. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials 1834 CROFT.-LADY LANE.. Opened 27 Sept., 1839 ; preacher, John Hamilton Thorn. (Cong~egation ejected from Risley Chapel.) Peter Holt William Mason C* R., 1.839, P Inq., 28 Feb., Tooting Chapel Case ; List of Chapels claimed by Presbyteria fzs [I 8871 No* 44 Annzral Report of Liverpool and District Missionary Association, C. L., 20 July, Record, p. 45. CULL0MPTON.-POUND SQUARE. Date of Congregation, 1662? Opened 29 Oct., 1815 ; preachers, Lant Carpenter, LL.D., a.m. and p.m., and John Davis, p.m. First Chapel opened MINISTERS* William Crompton, M.A. **. 1662?-1696? Richard Evans Robert Glass Thomas Chapman James Hook * B *

49 Samuel Morgan John Davis Matthew Lee Yeates Nicholas Samuel Heineken William Rowlinson Joseph Aikin Newel1 John Omer Squier Charles Frederick Biss James Cooper William Saltmarshe Smith... Thomas Lloyd Jones Mug (I), silver, 4+ inches tall, II+ inches circumference, one handle, on shoulder of which :- P. B London date letter, Inscription on front of mug :- BEQUEATHED BY FRANCES BROWN, JULY Z~TH, 1832, TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITARIAN CONGREGATION, CULLOMPTON. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms I Baptisms I Baptisms and Burials M. R., 1815, p Muvch, p Date of Congregation, Opened 12 Oct., 1873; preacher, Alfred Payne. First meeting-place, Northgate Assembly Rooms. Second meeting-place, Mechanics' Hall. Joseph Lee..a a William John Taylor Francis Haydn Williams Su@Zies J. H. Weatherall, B.A TOPOGRAPHY, In&, 18 Oct., Date of Congregation, 1682? John Marten W Closed Iden Payne Daniel Harwood John Jennings, B.A S. S.. Closed John Dale L. P. A., p. 23- DEAN ROW. Date of Congregation, Opened Restored and re-opened 23 April, 1845 ; preacher, John James Tayler, B.A.

50 Eliezer Birch.... Hugh Worthington Hugh Worthington, Jun. William Brocklehurst George Chadwick William Tullidelph Procter Nicholas Shattock John Williams Morris... John Colston, J.P.... Alfred Payne Philip Martineau Higginson, M.A. John Collins Odgers, B.A John Hardy Felstead... Cups (2), electro, 9% inches tall, 4 inches diameter, plain bell, knop, stem, fluted foot. Inscription :- DEAN ROAD CHAPEL, Paten (I), electro, 10 inches diameter, 5% inches tall, stem, knop, fluted foot. Inscription :- THIS SERVICE PRESENTED TO THE CONGREGATION ASSEMBLING' AT DEAN ROW CHAPEL, IN MEMORY OF THE LATE MR. JOSEPH WOOD, BY HIS NEPHEWS AND NIECES, MAY, Flagon (I), electro, 16 inches tall, fluted, handle, lid, beak. Inscription :- DEAN ROW CHAPEL, M. S. C., p C* R., 1845, PP* 326, 377,451. Urwick, p C. F., 1869, p. 91. Izq., 21 Ap., Inq., 26 Oct., Record, p. 46. Date of Congregation, Opened 24 May, 1879 ; preacher, Henry Enfield Dowson, B.A. Lawrence Scott George Henry Smith, Sztpply 1895 I~zq., 31 May, Record, p. 49. DERBY. --FRIAR GATE. Opened First place of worship, Chapel of S. Mary-on-Bridge. Second place of worship, Irongate (1679?) S.. U7illiam Cross), Robert More ) a.. Ferdinando Shaw.. Josiah Rogerson Ebenezer Latham, M.D. Thomas White Hezekiah Kirkpatrick, Assista~zt John Willding, Assistant Edward Thomas, Assistant Jalnes Pilkington... I Nathaniel Philips.. William Winstanley.. \V- Whitehouse....a. Edward Higginson.. William Rowe a.. a.. Noah Jones *.a

51 Henry William Crosskey, LL.D. Joseph Huttqn, LL.D. Alexander H& McMaster William Oates Robert Crompton Jones, B.A. Thornas Robert Dobson Charles Davies Badland, M.A. Barnard Gisby John Birks, F.G.S.. Chalices (2), silver, 46 inches tall, plain bell, no stem, no foot. On front of each, between handles :- K*W. London date letter, probably I Much worn. Tankard or flagon (I), silver, 52 inches tall, 5 inches wide at base ; plain, flat lid hinged to handle ; no beak ; weight, 24 oz. 18 dwt. On front, opposite to handle, a lozenge, with crest of donor. On bottom of tankard this inscription :- THE GIFT OF THE HONOURABLE MRS. E. ALSOP TO THE CONGREGATION OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN DERBY. OB. MARCH I, 17%. ET. 94. London date letter, Patens (2), pewter, plain. The congregation also owns the plate formerly belonging to the Duffield congregation, deposited on 29 April, 1890, by the Misses Marianne and Katherine Jones, daughters of the late Evan Owen Jones, minister of the Duffield Chapel, they being the last and only representatives of the congregation surviving. Chalices (2), silver, 3% inches tall, 33 inches wide, plain bell, no stem, no foot. On front of each, between handles, this inscription :- THE GIFT OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LATE HENRY COAPE, EsaRE.! TO THE CONGREGATION OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS AT DUFFIELD, 20TH AUGUST, On bottom of each cup :- E <: H. London date letter, I DERBY. FRIAR GATE. THE " ALSOP " FLAGON

52 Patens (2), silver, 9% inches diameter, plain ; similar inscription on bottom of each, but without E * H. London date letter, I REGISTERS. DERBY. I. Baptisms I Burials Baptisms Baptisms.. I IV. Baptisms I DUFFIELD. I. Baptisms Baptisms M. S. C., p U. H., 2 Aug., M~~orials of Friar Gate Chapel, Derby, John Birks, F.G.S t18951 L. OFZ W., June, Date of Congregation, Opened 27 Nov., 1864; preacher, William James. First chapel, in George Street, opened 27 April, 1791 ; preacher, Theophilus Lindsey. Second chapel, in Granby Street, opened 21 June, 1829; preacher, Henry Acton.. James Holt Rice.. a.. John Kentish John Tingcombe (lay~q.tagz,) -1798

53 David Evans.., Clzaf el sold. Mr. Sylvanus Gibbs John Kendall, B.A. James Forrest, M.A.... John Crawford Woods, B.A. Frederick William Stevens, B.A.... James Phillips James Kay Applebee William Binns... Leonard Hiinges... Alfred Hood William Edward Mellone... Robert Scammell Clarke... Arthur Harvie... John Tyssul Davis, B.A.... C. R., 1820, p C. R., 1826, pp. XIO, 184, 298. C. R,, 1827, p C. R., 1828, p c. R., 1829, p M. R., 1828, p M. R., 1829, pp. 589, 666. MZCYC~, p C. R., 1849, p. 58. c. u., 1864, p Iq., 13 Feb., Ifiq., 3 Dec., C. F., 1866, p Itzq., I Dec., DEWSBURY.-UNITY CHURCH. Date of Congregation, Opened 21 March, 1866; preacher, Robert Brook Aspland, M.A. James Mathias Dixon Charles Howe John Henry Smith David Scott... James Fraser Joseph Crowther Hirst... Benjamin Charles Constable... Thomas Bennett Broadrick Robert Cooper Dendy..... Inq., 31 March, Date of Congregation, Opened 26 June, 1822 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. First chapel in Palgrave built Henry Williamson Thomas Davis Joseph Dawson Thomas Greaves John Holland Wrenn....., John Dickenson Harrison Archer... Benjamin Davis... Rochemont Barbauld Nathaniel Phillips, D.D.... John Tremlett... Charles Lloyd, LL.D.... John Fullagar...,,

54 Charles Porteous Valentine John Howard Ryland Jerom Murch John Mitchelson Lewis Lewis William Bankhead Francis McCammon Thomas Hunter Simon Frederick Macdonald John Ellis Henry Webb Ellis.. Richard Edward ~ unne James Bayley John Thomas Cooper John Trist.. a Charles Frederick Biss Alexander Macdougall Herbert Lawson REGISTERS. Burials I TOPOGRAPHY. M. R., p M. R., p M. R., P Inq., 15 March B~owgze. p Date of Congregation. about Built about MINISTERS. (Se8 ADDENDA)? Charles Lloyd. LL.D Abraham Bennett Subplies Henry Acton 1820 William Kite 1821 Gideon Duplock James Kennedy Esdaile, M A GeorgeWithall Thomas Grimes William Linwood Thomas Gilbert Alexander Macdougal John Macrae Moir Hale White SupfiZies (Chiefly M.N.C. studelzts to 1889; Edgav Maztrice Daplyn, ; a~zd Hewy Ringwood Peach ). REGISTERS. I. Births I1. Deaths and Burials TOPOGRAPHY. History of the Coulzty of S~ssex. Thomas Walker Horsefield. F.S.A., p S. U. M p. 20. Iq., July and Aug., L. P.A.. p. 23. Date of Congregation. about Built MINISTERS... Lawrence Holden Davies James Neile *.. - Samuel Crompton J- Skirven S.. a Wichard Hodgson ; Andrew Scott

55 74 John Platts Joseph Hutton - William Duffield John Thomas Cooper James Cauty Smith William Elliott William Sunderland Smith Joseph Dare, B.A. William Armitage John Fraser Alexander Ashworth Halliwell Thomas Mkll, p Notes on the Establishlnent of the Society of P~otestant Disse%tevs at Doncaster, published in connection with the celebration of the Bi-centenary of the Church, May, Itrq., 28 May, D0RCHESTER.-PEASE LANE. Date of Congregation, Built about Closed about First chapel in Friary. William Benn, M.A Joshua Churchill ? Baruch Nowell James Kettle Benjamin Spencer Samuel Phillips.' ?-1761 Timothy Lamb Abel Edwards, Assistn.~zt Abel Edwards Benjamin Treleaven Lewis Lewis REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms I M. S. C., p M. R., 1826, p Mz~~ch, p DOUGLAS, I. 0. M.-CIRCULAR ROAD. Date of Congregation, Opened 27 April, First meeting-place, James' Hall. Suj5jlies-principally Mr. James de Maine Browne - Thomas Leyland Jan.-Sept., 1885 Richard Elliott Birks Thomas Rowland Skemp DOVE R.-ADRIAN STREET. Date of Congregation, about Opened 2 May, 1820 ; preachers, Sampson Kingsford, a.m., and William ' Johnson Fox, p.m. First chapel built about Second chapel built ; enlarged Richard Hobbs, pastor itere 1643, and in 1655 Edward PI-escott, CO-pastor here 1655

56 Samuel Taverner Richard Cannon, CO-bastov John Simpson David Simpson..+ Robert Pyall William Ashdowne Stephen Philpott James Porter... Benjamin Marten George Culmer Pound John Atkinson Briggs John Lettis Short Thomas Barker Wawne Briggs Thomas Robinson John Farmer Kennard Samuel Burrows Cups (2), electro, 7+ inches tall. Patens (3), electro, g inches diameter. Flagon (I), electro, I I inches tall. Inscription :- THIS COMMUNION SERVICE WAS PRESENTED BY SOME FRIENDS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TO THE GENERAL BAPTIST CHURCH ASSEMBLING FOR WORSHIP IN ADRIAN STREET CHAPEL, DOVER, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE PASSING REGISTERS. I. Births M. R., 1819, p M. R., 1820, p, 318. C. R., 1834, p C. F., 1870, p S. U. M,, 1888, p. 87. C. L., 10 Aug., Ifiq., 27 July and 3 Aug., L. P. A., p. 24. DUDLEY.-WOLVERHAMPTON STREET. Opened 1702 ; burned by rioters, 18 July, 1715 ; rebuilt, 1717, with Government aid. Restored and re-opened, 12 Dec., 1869 ; preacher, William James. First place of meeting, " Jos. Smith's house on Turnpike Road leading to Wolverhampton." John Southwell 1687? William Willetts a ? Joseph Stokes.m. I7OI?-I743 James Hancox William Denny Wood James Hews Bransby Samuel Bache a John Palmer, B.A Richard Shaen, M.A Samuel Davidson, Ph.D John Thomas, B.A. a S.. Matthew Gibson Harold Rylett John Briggs Lloyd Arrowsmith Hyde Shelley Chalices (z), silver, 62 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Inscription between handles- GIVEN FOR THE USE OF DUDLEY MEETING, sy MR. 1 * F 4: London date letter, NOTE.-Most probably I. F. is John Finch. There is a succession of that name prominent in the congregation from 1722 to 1840.

57 Paten (I), electro, g inches diameter, stem, round foot. Inscription in centre- OLD MEETING HOUSE, DUDLEY, I 853. Flagon (I), electro, 10% inches tall, plain body, band round lower half, lid, handle, beak; same inscription and date as paten. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials MS. Records of the Presbyterian Chuvclz, Stourbridge, Mr. William Scott, vol. iii, [about I~OO,] p NOTE.-These three valuable volumes are in the custody of the minister for the time being of the Presbyterian Chapel, Stourbridge. Opened 26 Aug., 1840 ; preacher, Robert Aspland. West front built, chapel reopened 14 June, 1893 ; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D. First chapel opened rg Aug., Samuel Angier William Buckley Robert Robinson, D.D Gladstones John Helme 1757?-1761 Williarn Buckley (son of No. 2) David Eewellin Davies Thomas Smith - - D William Tate I799 James Hawkes Joseph Ashton. * Tho~nas Oliver Warwick, M.D., sz~++ly John Gaskell, M.A. v.. Robert Brook Aspland, M.A. John Gordon... John Page Hopps Philip Henry Wicksteed, M.A. George Hamilton Vance, B.D. Hugon Seaward Tayler, M.A. Chalice (I), silver, 4% inches tall, 4g inches diameter, plain bell, no stem. Inscription under rim- DONUM SAMUELIS ANGIER V.D.Mi. ECCLESIB APUD DUKINFIELD, C halice (I), silver, modern copy of above. Inscription- JANE LEECH, HUNC CALICEM ECCLESIE, APUD DUKINFIELD DONO DEDIT A.D Paten (I), silver, 8 inches diameter. I. H. S. in centre. Inscription on rim, upper side- IN MEMORIAM NANCY LEES, HANC PATINAM ECCLESIE, APUD DUKINFIELD, AD CULTUM UNIUS DEI CONSECRATB MARIA ASPLAN DONO DEDIT A.D Paten (I), silver, same as above. Inscription- IN MEMORIAM MARIB BAYLEY, HANC PATINAM ECCLESIE, APUD DUKINFIELD, AD CULTUM UNIUS DEI CONSECRATE HENRICUS BAYLEY, DONO DEDIT A.D Flagon (I), glass, modern, 12 inches tall; old silver cross stopper. REGISTERS. I. Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials , Baptisms Burials , Baptisms..' I Burials

58 IV. Baptisms Burials V. Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p M. R., 1825, P C. R., 1839, p C. R., 1840, PP. 622, 681. C. R., 1845, P C. R., 1850, p Urwick, p C. F., 1870, p. 41. History of Ashton-undev-Lyne, Glover & Andrews, 1884, p C. L., 6 July, Nightingale, vol. v, I 893, p Recovd, p. 50. Historical Accognt of Dukifiyfeld Chniel, Alex: Gordon, M.A., I 896. L. 0% W., July, Date of Congregation, Opened 5 June, 1866 ; preacher, Peter William Clayden. First meeting-house, in Southgate, opened 26 Sept., 1697 ; preacher, Oliver Heywood. John Lister Jeremiah Bairstow ~ananiah Elston Thomas Farrar William Eden JohnHoughton Josiah Townsend a.. John Beatie a.... S a.. C.. S.. Thomas Stewart James Mathias Dixon.. Thomas Robert Dobson John Ellis.,. Abel Buckley... James Ruddle REGISTERS. I. Baptisnis M. S. C., p Inq., g June, C. F., 1868, p. 57. Niall, p Date of Congregation, about Opened 1737 ; preacher, Paul Cardale. Restored and reopened, 11 April, 1875 ; preacher, John Gordon. First meeting-place in room "back of High Street," the trust deed of which is dated John Higgs Ftancis Blackmore Paul Cardale...* David Jones Henry Procter Charles Lloyd, LLD Benjamin Kingsley Benjamin Davis F

59 Peter Charles a.o... Thornas Davies....,. William Williams, sukbly John Evans Timothy Davis John Calbraith Lunn, F.R.A.S. John Gordon Charles Henry Wellbeloved.,. John Collins Odgers, B.A. Benjamin Lepard Green... Michael Smith Dunbar, M.A. Rudolf Davis, B.A chalice (I), silver, 58 inches tall, plain bell. Inscription between handles- Patens (z), pewter, 89 inches diameter, plain. Inscription- T. R. E. A. R. Flagon (I), electro, g inches tall, beak, lid, handle; no inscription, but was gift of widow of Charles Wallace, M.A. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials A Desc~@tive Account of tlze Town of Evesham, George May, 1845 p C. R., 1852, p f~q., 24 April, Worship ceased 1760, when George's Meeting was opened. Joseph Hallett..I George Trosse a.'. Joseph Hallett (Seczt,ndus),.. James Peirce... John Enty. Walter Furze.. James Green b.. Stephen Towgood S.. Micaijah Towgood S.. Built Stephen Towgood.*I Micaijah Towgood....", James Manning Timothy Kenrick Lant Carpenter, LL.D. William Hincks, B.A. Henry Acton..... m..,.. John Cropper, hl.a. Walter Coupla,nd Perry, Ph.D. Francis Bishop.. Thomas Hincks, B.A...a George Rrowne Brock, J.P. Thomas William Chignell a Built 1719 ; sold 1810 ; congregation joined George's Meeting.

60 James Peirce... Joseph Hallett (Seczcndus) Thomas Jeffery Joseph Hallett (Tertiz~s) William West David Williams.. Joseph Bretland John Hogg. Joseph Bretland (2nd time) Theophilus Edwards Cup (I), silver, 8+ inches tall, plain bell, stem, knop, foot, London date letter, Inscription on bell : No. I. JAMES'S MEETING. Also in faint pouncing :- I. W. Cup (I), silver, 8$ inches tall, plain bell, stem, knop, foot. London date letter, Inscription on bell, evidently cut by same hand as above :- No. 2. JAMES'S MEETING. Just below rim, and above the inscription, faintly pounced.- M. I. M Paten (I), silver, 10 inches diameter, plain, on a raised boss in centre, surrounded by a mantle. No. I. THE GIFT OF JOHN VOWLER, ESQ., TO THE SOCIETY AT JAMES'S MEETING EXON. MARCH 25, London date letter, Paten (I), silver, similar to above with same inscription, except No. 2 for No. I. London date letter, EXETER. GEORGE'S MEETING. ONE OF THE "VOWLER" PATENS

61 REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials I Births and Baptisms Burials Baptisms Burials IV. Baptisms and Burials M. S. C., p Murch, p Beavd, p Opened 22 Jan., 1879 ; preacher, Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A. First chapel opened g698? &-R MY 1638 Joseph Heywood? ~~/1700-1@,f 171 5,A&=s#b sk&ntw&-, William Perkins ffi 2 +/ Henry Knight j7.u- Benjamin Sa ndford Tit us Cordingley ? Robert Robinson, D.D (4)7 Pendlebury Houghton William Hawkes ' Richard Aubrey Lewis Lloyd, SupPlj~ William Stevenson, SztppZy S Titus Baron, Szl&5ly ?-1799 Joseph Bull (on ~utarviage Bull Bristowe), Sz~@fy William Marshall, Sz~$Ply....a George Walker, Sz@$ly

62 David L%& Jones George Buckland Joseph Ashton *.. James Taylor James Hibbert James Taylor (zltd time) Abram Lunn Joseph Freeston -.. William George Cadman Robert Hammond Cotton, M.A. Robert Henry Gibson, B.A., Sup$ly Halliwell Thomas George Knight Cups (2), pewter, 89 inches tall, plain bell, knop, stem, foot. Patens (2), pewter, 28+ inches in circumference, width of rim 14 inches, plain. Inscription on rim of each :- H H E Baptismal bo~vl, pewter, 362 inches in circumference, 2% inches tall, plain, in rim 3 small holes for attaching it to the frame at the side of the pulpit., NOTE.--Mr. R. P. Wright, writing on 13 May, 1891, says :-U They have not been used within the memory of anyone. They are in my care. We have also a set containing a flagon, two cups, and two plates, given anonymously to the congregation about a year and a half ago. These are mqde of Britannia metal."-g. E. E. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p C. R., 1846, p U. H., 19 Jan., Igtq., 25 Jan., I~zq., 14 March, Nighti~zgale, vol. 5, 1893, p. 38. Rtco~d, p. 54. FILBY CHAPEL. Licensed 11 July, S. Henry Daliel, M.A S.. a.. Richard Chorley -1723? Joseph Dawson - S % * -S * * John ~ N abeynon s &org; Cadogan Morgan, CO-pastor Michael Maurice m. Thomas Martin ?-1830 l 8 g i L. John Burnett /+j)iuN(VV14~& Fa a F;,(+,I Samuel Robinson I +g jfm~v~~-~w Thomas Hugh Marshal1 Scott, M.A., " P Kichard Shelley.Timothy Arthur Peaton John Joseph Marten IVilliam Stephens Herbert Pole, B.A FEAGG CHAPEL. Opened July, 1839 ; preachers, Charles Wicksteed, B.A., a.m. and p.m. ; and Noah Jones, p.m. Restored and reopened 12 April, 1885 ; preacher, Lawrence Scott. MINISTERS, Robert Shenton William Sutherland

63 William Birks John Ferrar. B.A Andrew Macreight Creery. B.A Sufilies-principally Mr. Charles Woollen TOPOGRAPHY. C R., p 794 C. R., p Inq., 18 April p Devbyshirc Chvonicle. 13 July FRAML1NGHAM.-OLD MEETING HOUSE. Built, MINISTERS. Samuel Baxter - Smith Samuel Lodge, M.A. Richard Chorley Thomas Cook ovd. Samuel Wood, Jun. Jeremiah Longfield John Walker William Stuck? Henry Post Wilham? Samuel Say Toms William Clack Henry Bowles John Esdaile Alfred Hardy Charles Case Nutter Michael Castle Gascoigne Thomas Cooper WilliamAnnettsPoye William Fielding James Henry Cliffe Henry Lee Baker Alfred Amey REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials I1. Births and Baptisms Burials I TOPOGRAPHY. C. R., p Igq., 19 July Browne. p F W ENCHAU.-FRENCHAY COMMON Date of Congregation. 1691? Built about MINISTERS. Joseph Tyler.., 1691?-1741? Joshua Griffith David Lewis Samuel Thomas Jillard Hort Michael Maurice Henry Clarke Henry Edward Howse John Forsbrey John Tingcombe John George Teggin Joseph Crompton Samuel Walker Daniel Davies Jeremy, M.A Daniel Marwood

64 Henry Edward Howse George Pulleyn Hinton John Jennings, B.A John Ferrar, B.A Supplies, Chalice (I), silver, 43 inches tall, 4 inches diameter, bell with small bands round rim and middle, stem, foot. Inscriptions, on one side, between handles and above band :- g: S :;: CV P FRENCHAY On other side, in same position :- E DON~ E. GARLICK. Paten, pewter, with foot. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials lli%~ch, p. 47. C. R., 1845, p FULWOOD, Yorks. Date of Congregation, Built Reopened 7 June, 1896 ; preacher, John Edrnondson Manning, R1.A. Jeremiah Gill SztpPlied by Shefield U$. Chapel Josepl~ Ramsbotham.., William Whitelegge Gilbert William Elliott Supplies John Macdonald Hugh Garside Rhodes Occasional Services Closed Sue#Eies June, Minll, p C. L., 13 June, Date of Congregation, 1688? ilbraham Gill, / > +, Ambrose Rudsdell Jeremiah Gill., Jacob Brettell Nicholas Thomas Heineken Robert Little...., James Kennedy 181g/zo-1824 William Worsley, B.A William \Vjmn Robinson Chalice (I), silver, 32 inches tall, 69 inches diameter from handle to handle, plain bell, no stem, foot. London date letter, On bell- 1" F Chalice (I), silver, 3% inches tall, g inches diameter from handle to handle, bell with fluted base, no stem, foot. London date letter, On bell- H. E. A. 169'7.

65 Chalice (I), silver, 4% inches tall, 7% inches diameter from handle to handle, plain bell, no stem, foot. London date letter, On base- E. H. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms I II. Baptisms I I I I. Baptisms HV. Baptisms V. Baptisms I The History and Antiquities of Gainsborough, Adam Stark, 1817, p Inp., 28 May, 1881, GATEACRE CHAPEL. Date of Congregation, before Licensed I4 Oct., Date on bell, Restored and reopened 30 August, 1885 ; preacher, John Hamilton Thom. Charles Lithgow possibly here James Whittle,.. Joseph Lawton Richard Godwin John Edwards William Shepherd, LL.D. Lewis Lewis.,. Noah Jones George Beaumont GATEACRE CHAPEL. =

66 Chalice (I), silver, 5 inches tall. London date letter, Inscription on shield between handles :- THE CUP OF TO HIM, A.D., Probably made by same workman as the M. H. Chalice at Chester. Paten (I), silver, g inches diameter, plain. London date letter, I Baptismal bowl, silver, 78 inches diameter, 22 inches tall, plain. Inscription- / I. W. Inscription on Chapel bell :- " COME AWAY, MAKE NO DELAY." A. R., REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms , MS. Memorials of Gatencve Chapel, J [ames] L. T [hornely], in custody of chapel authorities. M. S. C., p Inq., 12 Sept., L. U.A., 1892,p Nightilzgale, vol. 6, 1893, p Recovd, p. 59.

67 Opened 12 Date of Congregation. November September ; preacher. Samuel Alfred Steinthal. First opened 12 June ; preacher. Charles Beard. B.A., LL.D. MINISTERS. Frederick Ashton. M.A William Harrison Richard Henry Lambley TOPOGRAPHY. Itzq., 19 June Recovd. p. 61. I~tq., 19 Sept., L. on W., Nov., Date of Congregation Built MINISTERS. James Forbes. M.A. John Denhain. Assista~~t John Denham John Reynolds. Assistant Jeremiah Tidcombe Richard Addey John Modge. D.D. John Dicltenson John Tre~nlett. Assista~l t Richard hubrey Theophilus Browne. M.A. Richasd Astley George Browne Brock. J.P. Henry Davies. LL.D. a.. Theophilus Davies Joseph Henry Hutton. B.A. S.. Lindsey Taplin. M.A..S. John George Teggin IVilliam Birks Charles Frederick Biss George Knight a... m. Richard Elliott Birks James Macdonald. S.. Walter Lloyd REGISTERS. I. Baptisms I1. Baptisms Burials I TOPOGRAPHY. *V. S. C., p Murch. p. 3. C. R., p Inp., 13 Jan., DALMING.-MEAD ROW. Built School-house opened 10 July, MINISTERS.. John Ellis Joseph Brent. Assistant Thomas Moore Edwin Chapman Maxwell Davidson John Robertson 1852 Joseph Smith

68 96 Percy Bakewell, B.A William Alfred Clarke Samuel Pinkerton, B.A Hubert Clarke M. S. C., p Date of Congregation, Opened 11 Oct., 1877 ; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. William Alfred Clarke James Clayton Williams Alic Herbert Dolphin Edgar Maurice Daplyn Inq., 20 Oct., L. P. A., p. 24. GULLIFORD. Date of Congregation, 1662? Opened First chapel opened about Samuel Fownes Samuel Tapper Joseph Manston, Assistant Joseph Manston here 1715 Michael Martin Thomas Hancock... a John Turner a Thomas Jervis John Jervis, F.L;S.. S...a S.. Roger Seaward a W Thomas Adams Edmund Squire.... Goodwyn Barmby 0. Lewis David Jones S.. Henry Webb Ellis James Cooper....a William Birks.. Richard Elliott Birks... William Sutherland.....S William Sutherland, Jun. March, p C. F., 1871, p. 25. HALE CHAPEL. Cong~egation expelled front Ringway Clzapel, 172 I. Opened Restbred and reopened 18 June, 1893; preachers, Christopher Janies Street, M.A., LL.B., a.m. ; and Dendy Agate, B.A., p.m. School-house opened 26 Jan., John Brereton m. Robert Moseley William Dearneley Nicholas Waterhouse B.. Radcliffe Scholefield G

69 Silas Sidebotham... Hugh Worthington... Robert Harr~p William Jevons Charles Wallace, M.A.... James Thornely Whitehead George Browne Brock, J.P. John Gammell, B.A.... Andrew Macreight Creery, B.A. Edward Samuel Howse, B.A. Thomas Lloyd Jones Charles Davies Badland, M.A. Joseph Crowther Hirst... Cups (z), silver, g inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. Inscription on bell of each :- HALE CHAPEL, 1801, THE GIFT MR. JNO. OF WORTHINGTON. On foot of each :- THE GIFT OF MR. JOHN WORTHINGTON, OF ALTRINCHAM. Paten (I), silver, IO+ inches diameter ; plain. Inscription on base :- HALE CHAPEL, 1804, THE GIFT OF MR. ISAAC WORTHINGTON. Cups (z), pewter, 4 inches tall, 7 inches diameter, plain. Paten (I), pewter, 13+ inches diameter, plain; date and origin unknown. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Baptisms I ) &?. S. C., p C. R., 1852, p U~wick, p Iq., 5 Feb., Yozw I~h~ritance, James Edwin Odgers, M.A., r 894. L. out W., May, Record, p. 64. HALIFAX.-NORTHGATE END. Date of Congregation, Opened z Oct., 1872 ; preacher, Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. First chapel opened 11 Nov., 1696; preacher, Oliver Heywood. Nath,aniel Priestley. Eli Dawson Samuel Threlkeld......a. m John Ralph Thomas Broadhurst.. 0 John Bickerton Dewhirst John Jones, LL.D. a.. John Williams.. 3 Richard Astley Joseph Ashton.I. William Turner, M.A.. John Barling a.. Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. Percy Bakewell, B.A. S.. Thomas Hirst Smith Francis English Millson... Hubert Clarke, Assistant... \

70 REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p Miall, p C. F., 1872, p Northgatc End Chatel Magazine, 1886, pp. 14, 29, 46, 63. HALSTEAD. Opened 13 Sept., 1857 ; preacher, John Robertson. John Robertson Touzeau Parris Alexander MacDougall John Briggs Lloyd 1886-r88g Arthur Ellis O'Connor, B.D Robert Hart Fuller, M.A C. R., 1863, p Fellowship, 1895, p Daniel Phillips William Warner John Tremlett WilliamSelby James Carter Knapton Chalices (z), silver, 5 inches tall, quite plain, on base :--\ 134?A,, G. G. London date letter, probably I Paten (I), silver, 10 inches diameter, on base :- G. G. London date letter, probably I f F [,?-c$ - 4 REGISTERS.. il?. -f$k-v-- r* P'. \l. 1-- \ I. Births and Baptisms I tf t;!\? h /"p- *L* Burials G(. 1 1 U 8. ',C[ ; /I M. S. C., p Inq., g Aug., 1856: Browne, p Fellowship, 1894, pp. 105, 123. Eastern Weekly News, 22 Sept., I 894. MS. Notes on Hclpton, James Carter Knapton, 1891: quarto vol., penes G. E. E. i ; HAPTON CHAPEL. Date of Congregation, Opened Aug., Robert Chaplin 1714?-I774 I Thomas Scott j Thomas Stanton, D.D Date of Congregation, March, Opened 6 May, 1868 ; preacher, Robert Brook Aspland. William Wynn Robinson John Thomas, B.A John Jennings, B.A Williams Birks

71 John Dale William Alfred Clarke Arthur Leslie Smith, B.A William George Price Cup (I), electro, 8* inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. Paten (I), electro, 9% inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), electro, 12 inches tall, lid, beak, handle, plain. No inscriptions, but given by the families of Atkin. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials NOTE.-A fly leaf of No. I contains a summary of the congregational history in an unknown hand. According to this, a congregation was formed about 1682, and the chapel was built in G. E. E, Histo~y of Hiltckley, John Nichols, F.S.A., 1813, p M. S. C., p C. L., 17 Aug., HHMDLEY CHAPEL. Date of Congregation, Opened Thomas Whalley J ames 5rownlow #., Jose;Jh Bourn William Davenport Jonathan Hodgkinsoil Abraham Manley James Kay John Sear1 Ragland George Hoade Adam Rushton Philip Vancesmith, M.A John Moore REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Burials Marriages Baptisms x1. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p Nightittgule, vol. iv, 1892, p. 7. Recovd, p. 69. Opened Samuel Lover Matthew Caffyn.. Matthew Caffyn, Jun. Thomas Southon.,.... Richard Holland... John Tasker... Thomas Walder... *.. Joseph Holden?..... Edward Buckman William Evershed....,. Matthew Caffyn,,. Stephell Rowland John Dendy Thomas Sadler

72 Robert Ashdowne Robert William Simpson, B.A William Matthews Heber Williams,.. Jarnes William Braithwaite Francis James Orwin Michael Smith Dunbar, M.A.. Thomas Wilson Scott John Taylor John Joseph hfarten 4 Chalices (4), silver, 3& inches tall, 3 inches diameter, plain, bell, foot. London date letter, Patens (4), pewter, plain. On rim of one :- C S. S. (probably Caffyn, Sullington, Sussex). Flagon (I), electro, 12 inches tall, plain, beak, lid, handle. No inscription, but bought by subscription about NOTE.-Up to the time of the re-seating of the chapel, about 1875, there was on one of the walls a wooden shelf, and under it this inscription :- " More Leaves from an Old Minute Book," E [mily] Kensett, Ijzq., 8 Feb., More Records of Last Century," E [mily] Kensett, Iq., 16, 23, 30 Aug., " Further Records of the Horsham Church," E [n~ily] Kensett, Inq., 6, 13, 20, 27 Feb., and 5 March, L. P. A., p. 25. Date of Congregation, Opened 22 Feb., 1896 ; preacher, Charles Clement Coe, F.R.G.S. Samuel Tho~npson Richard Clarke Moore Ifzq., 13 July, Inq., 29 Feb., C. L., 7 March, Miss Elizth. Gatford gave this portion of bread to be disposed of every Sunday poor who attend this Church. The bread is still given, and an inscription preserved on a modern tablet, piaced under the Gatford monument. REGISTERS. I. Births Burials Burials TBPOGRAPHY. Some Curiosities of Church Discipline in the Eigllteenth Century," E [n~ily] Kensett, Ifzq., 18 Jan., Date of Congregation, Opened 21 Dec., 1854; preacher, James Martineau, D.D. MHNISTERS. George Heap Stanley, B.A. John Knowles Montgomery William Matthews John Thomas, B.A. Henry Rawlings, M.A. Samuel Burrours Herbert Pole, B.A. Ramsden Balmforth * > B

73 Cups (2), pewter, 8+ inches tall, plain. -.. Patens (2), pewter, g* inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), pewter, g+ inches tall, plain. No inscription, all markedt I H S C. R., 1853, P Iflq., 6 Jan., C. F., 1869, p. 27. H U LL.-PARK STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 23 Nov., 1881 ; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. First opened in Bowl Alley before Second opened SamuelCharles,M.A. John Billingsley... John Witter Titus Cordingley... John Beverley William Oke Manning... William Severn George Kenrick George Lee William Worsley, B.A. William Steill Brown.. Joseph Ketley, M.A Edward Higginsoil John Shannon James Mathias Dixon... Henry Woods Perris... REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms M. R., 1818, p M. S. C., p A Sketch of the Ministers of Bowl Alley Lane Chatcl, Hull; John Shannon [1862]. Miall, p Ilzq., 26 Nov., Inq., 5 Sept., HYDE CHAPEL.-GEE CROSS. Date of Congregation, Opened 5 July, 1848 ; preacher, Charles Wicksteed, B.A. First Chapel opened John Cooper Thomas Hartley... I732?-I755 John Houghton Samuel Mercer George Checkley Bristowe Cooper James Brooks Charles Beard, B.A Henry Enfield Dowson, B.A Cups (2), electro, 7% inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. In a glory on each- I. H. S.

74 Patens (z), electro, 9% inches diameter, plain. In a glory on each- I. H. S. Flagon (I), electro, 12% inches tall, plain. Inscription- THIS COMMUNION SERVICE PRESENTED TO HYDE CHAPEL, BY MRS. ASHTON, OF POLE BANK, In a glory on side- I. H. s. REGISTERS. I. Births S.. Baptisms Births.. Baptisms and Burials 111. Births Baptisms and Burials IV. Births and Baptisms V. Burials S.. VI. Burials C. R., 1845, p C. R., 1848, p hj.ywick, p C. F., 1866;~ L. on W., Dec., Recovd, p. 71. Thomas Read Elliott Robert Cooper Dendy John Kertain Smith.., S.. Harold Rylett William Lyddon Tucker, M.A C. R., 1831, p I%q., 21 and 28 Dec., Recovd, p Date of Congregation, Opened 13 June, 1858 ; preacher, Thomas Hincks, B.A... Edmund Squire Alexander McCombe m John Birks Joseph Smith John Dale *.. John Fraser James William Braithwaite William Henry Eastlake Inq., 26 June, Ijzq., 27 Sep., Date of Congregation, Opened rg Dec., 1878; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. First Chapel opened 27 Feb., 1831 ; preachers, James Brooks, afternoon, and John Gaskell, M. A., evening. Date of Congregation, 1700? Opened 14 Oct., 1869 ; preacher, Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A. First chapel 'opened 1719.

75 John Platts Samuel Freeman... Robert Galland Edward Williams Joshua Shaw Mark Whitehouse... Thomas Read Elliott... William S hakspeare Leopold George Harris Crook... REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p Ifiq., 23 Oct., Date of Congregation before Opened Edmund Batson Thomas Marshal Nicholas Marshal1... Thomas Collins... James Strong.,.... William \Vest... John Cranch Joseph Keech Jacob Hayes Richard Parminter... Thomas Jeremy... John Taylor John Noon Joseph Gummer.... William Tullidelph Procter James R- Harris John Evans William Williams.. Thomas Bowen Edward Whitfield John Murray. Alfred Miiller Holden Beakers (2), silver, 3% inches tall, 3 inches wide at lip, 2% inches wide at base, cable pattern below mouth rim, exquisite repousse work. Above cable and faintly pricked :- M. D Date letters worn, but probably Exeter assay. NOTE.-These two beakers are, except for the repouss6 work, almost exactly like the beakers formerly owned by the Old Meeting in Palmer Street, South Petherton, which are now in the custody of Mr. Daniel, senior surviving trustee of the society. Patens (2), electro, modern. Flagon (I), silver, 84 inches tall, handsomely chased. Inscription :- PRES~KTED TO THE CONGREGATION OF THE OLD MEETING FOR THE USE OF THE LORD'S TABLE, BY MARY COLLINS, OF ILMINSTER, 12 MAY, London date letter, REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials Mzcrch, p Ifiq., 2 Sept., H

76 IPS W 1CH.-S. NICHOLAS STREET. Date of Congregation Opened 26 April. 1700; preacher. John Fairfax. M.A.. Place of meeting. "from 1687 in a hired house in Parish of S. Nicholas." MINISTERS. Owen Stockton John Fairfax. M.A. Samuel Baxter. M.A. William Shepherd Samuel Say.. Thomas Scott Peter Emans. Robert Lewin IVilliam Wood. F.L.S. James Pilkington William Jervis Samuel Parker Thomas Rees. LL.D., F.L.S. Thomas Drummond - - lsaac Yerry John Philp.. Andrew Nelville Joseph Ketley Thomas Felix Thomas Henry Knott John Thomas Cooper John Harrison. Ph.D. Joseph William Smith Thomas Bennett Broadrick William Edward Atack William Jellie. B.A. IPSWICH. ST. NICHOLAS STREET CHAPEL

77 Chalice (I), silver, 4% inches tall, bell, foot. between handles :- Inscription THE GIFT OF MRS. MARY BEAUMONT, JAN. I3TH, London date letter, Chalice, silver, 43 inches tall. Inscription between handles :- Ex DON~ M. T. London date letter, Chalice, silver, 4& inches tall. Date letter undecipherable. Chalice, silver, 43 inches tall, Date letter, probably London, Paten, silver, 10; inches diameter. I Paten, silver, 10% inches diameter. London date letter, London date letter, REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms M. R., 1811, p. 73. History of Ipswich, Clark, Browne, p Fellowship, 1893, p. 40. I Date of Congregation, before Opened Restored and re-opened 16 March, 1882 ; preacher, Samuel Alfred Steinthal. James Holme or Hulme '-1688 William Pendlebury ?

78 Samuel Audland Caleb Rotheram, D.D Richard Simpson ?-1756? Caleb Rotheram John Harrison Edward Hawkes, M.A James Edwin Odgers, M.A John Tait Russell William Birks, F.R.A.S James Macdonald Hubert Vincent Mills REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Baptisms and Burials M. S. C., p Inq., 25 March, U. H., 10 Dec., Nighti~gale, vol. I, 1890, p Record, p, 74. Opened Dec., First built before Inscription on wall over inner door :- This chapel was rebuilt during the ministry of the Rev. William Field, by voluntary contributions of friends, in addition to the sum of 530 which was generously devoted to that purpose by Edwin Wilkins Field, Esqre., solicitor, London, to whom it had been presented as an acknowledgement of his services in connexion with the passing of the Dissenters' Chapels Act.

79 Samuel Turton '. a. John Bassett a.. b.. Samuel Philips Josiah Corrie... John Kirkpatrick... Thomas Burkitt John Ludd Fenner.,. Samuel Wood, B.A. William Field... John Gordon Daniel Davies Jeremy, M.A. George Heaviside, B.A John William Lake... REGISTER. Births and Baptisms C. R., 1845, p l RICHARD BAXTER'S PULPIT, I 62 I. KIDDERMINSTER. ORIGINALLY Ih. THE PARISH CHURCH, NOW IN VESTRY OF NEW R~EETING HOUSE. KIDDERM1NSTER.-NEW MEETING. Date of Congregation, 24 Feb., Opened 18 Oct., 1782 ; preacher, Thomas Tayler. Enlarged, restored and re-opened, 13 Dec., 1883 ; preacher, Ambrose Nichols Blatchford, B.A. George Osborne Robert Gentleman William Severn John Lane *.. Joseph Smith Richard Fry.,. John Taylor... Matthew Gibson

80 Edward Parry Abram Lunn William Henry Fish, B.A William Edward Mellone William Carey Walters James Hall Evan David Priestley Evans Cup (I), silver, plain bell, foot, 4 inches tall, one handle. On shoulder :- P. H. E. On bell, opposite handle :- N. M. K. London date letter, Cup (I), silver, plain bell, foot, 49 inches tall, one handle. On bell, opposite to handle :- S. R. Coat of Arms. N. M. K. London date letter, Cup (I), silver, plain bell, foot, 43 inches tall, one handle, and opposite to it on bell :- N. M. K. London date letter, , Patens (2), pewter, plain. On base :- KIDDERMINSTER, NEW MEETING, * Flagon (I), electro, IO+ inches tall, lid, beak, handle. Inscription on one side :- NEW MEETING HOUSE, KIDDERMINSTER, I 863. On other side :- t I. H. S. REGISTER. Births and Baptisms MS. Church Book, probably in handwriting of Nicholas Pearsall ; 3 chapters. This volume, long lost, was recovered in 1893, and is now in custody of the Wardens in church safe. Seen by me, 1894.~~. E. E. New Meeting Record, Feb.-Aug., Notes by George Hopkins. Histoiy of Kiddevnzinster, John Richard Burton, B.A., 1890, PP* f 34, 143- Scedsowev, , p NOTE.--^^ the vestry is Richard Baxter's pulpit, which was originally in the parish church, whence it was removed with "rubbish" about Mr. Nicholas Pearsall bought it for 5, and gave it to the trustees of the New Meeting. It is one of the finest specimens of Jacobean carving. The panels are inscribed :- I MRS. ( ALICE 1 DAWKS, ( WIDOW, I GAVE I THIS I PULPIT. 1 The sounding board has panel carved :- ANNO K1 NG'S LY N N.-BROAD STREET. Opened 8 April, 1875 ; preacher, Charles Clement Coe, F.R.G.S. First meeting place, Blackfriars' Hall. William Annetts Pope John Towle Marriott Barnard Gisby James Edward Bruce William Rose Shanks Cyril Abdy Greaves, M.A., D.C.L. William Rossiter George Jones Cole Vernon Herford, B.A.

81 Chalices (21, pewter, 68 inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. Formerly used in Salem Chapel. First in yard in Black Goose Street. Second in Spinner Lane, built for Anthony Williamson. Third in Broad Street, built for Anthony Mayhew. Congregation became Independent and removed to new chapel 13 Oct., John Horne Anthony Williamson John Rastrick William Rastrick Anthony Mayhew, William Warner William Richards, M.A., LL.D. (nzo~nilzg only) Founded 1811, by secession from Calvinistic Baptists. Opened 5 Jan., 1812 ; preachers, John Evans, a.m., and Thomas Finch, p.m. Closed June, 1867 ; preacher, Thomas Jones Read. James McDowell William Mountford, M.A. Abram Lunn John Calbraith Lunn Robert Harris Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. William Henry Quinn. Thomas Jones Read.., REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births and Baptisms BirthsandBaptisms M. R,, 1811, p M. R., 1812, p. 58. M. R,, 1820, pp. 4-82, 530. C. R., 1821, pp. 213, 271. C. R., 1823, p C. R., 1828, p History of Lyfin, 2 vols., William Richards, M.A., 1812, p Ifzq., 17 April, Browfie, p Fellowship, 1894, p Igzq., 2 Mar. and 6 Apl., MS. Records of Sale% Chapel, I 812, and FigzaaciaZ Accounts of Salefa Chapel, 181 I, bound in one vol., vellum covered, 13 inches by 8* inches, panes Jeremiah Fox, New Conduit Street, King's Lynn, where 1 saw it, Oct., G. E. E. Thomas Finch Benjamin Treleaven Richard Smith William Selby John Wright

82 Opened October, 1793 ; restored First chapel built 1708? Burnt in Sacheverelle riots, Second chapel burnt in Priestley riots, 17 July, No~~.-Built into the outer side wall of the chapel, at the corner next to the parsonage, are four bricks with these inscriptions :- I saw these bricks in situ on 20 Sept., G. E. E. Many years supplied by Ministers resident in the neighbourhood." Note by JAMES SCOTT, Cradley, in earliest minute book of Monthly Meeting. George Lewis John Hobson John Tingcombe.. ' Thomas Moore Rees Lloyd Thomas Evans William Mountford, M.A

83 William Bowen Joseph Heywood John Birks James Taplin Lindsey Taplin, M.A Joseph Hardinge Matthews Cup, pewter, plain, two handles. Inscription- K. W. M. Patens (4), pewter, plain. Same letters. An Authentic Account of the d~eadfuul Riots in Bi~minghatn, occasioned by the celebvntion of the F~ench RevoZ%tion ort the 74 Jdy, London, The yiots at Bi~wzi~ghawz, 7797, Birmingham : published by Arthur Bache Matthews, C. F., 1870, p. 25. Seedsowev, 1894, p. 56. KIRKSTEAD. INTERIOR OF ABBEY CHAPEL, WITH PULPIT DATED 1620, FROM WHICH JOHN TAYLOR, D.D., PREACHED. As the door of Abba Chapel is now screwed up, and admission yefused by the ownev to all corners, I had no alter~aative but to photograph the inte~ior thvough the keyhole, which I did at 6-30 a.nz. on 14 August, G. E. E. KIRKSTEAD.-PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL. Opened Congregation worshipped in the Kirkstead Abbey Chapel till Reed John Taylor, D.D.... Benjamin Harrison Andrew Kippis John Dunkley Efzdowment aliefzated to Episcojaliafzs [W. Gibson A. Garnett James Langhorn John Myddelton

84 James Hawkes Richard Wright Griffith Roberts Robert Holden Cup (I), electro, g inches tall, bell, stem, foot, gilt lined. Patens (2), electro, g inches diameter, plain. Bought by subscription in REGISTER. Baptisms M. R., 1813, p. 81. M. S. C., p Izq., 28 March, C. L., 16 and 23 May, Inq., 24 Nov., 1894, Date of Congregation, Opened 1688 ; first Trust Deed dated William Tong Thomas Kynaston 168g/go Samuel Low.., Thomas Lea John Turner - - m Thomas Colthurst Robert Lord -6 May, Theophilus Harris Philip George Davis John Smethurst Joseph Ashton Henry Green, M.A John Briggs Lloyd James Black, M.A George Andrew Payne * , Chalice (I), silver, 3+ inches tall, very similar in style to the M. H. chalice at Chester. Inscription on base- B. E. M. London date letter, Patens (2)) pewter, g+ inches diameter, plain. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p C. R., 1859, P Knutsford, its traditions and histovy, Henry Green, M.A., Urwick, p C. F., C. L., 26 Jan., Recovd, p. 77. NoTE.-T~~ trustees of this chapel own a small square MS. vol., being So?ne short Account or brief Hints of all Questions proposed, Cases discussed, Dete~nzinatio?zs made, and othev Occurre?tces at the several Meetings of the Cheshire Mifiisters held i?t that cou?z@, An. Donz and [to The following inscription is written on the inner front cover by Henry Green, M.A. :- Presented to the Trustees of the Brook St. Old Dissenters' Chapel, Knutsfoyd, January Ist, 7873, by the late Ministev, Henvy Gyee~8, to whom it was give?^ by Willianz Turner, late of Newcastlc-ufon-Ty?te, who was the so?$ of hlr. Williafiz Tzrrtz~r, of Allostock, mentioned in this book as ordained Aug. 7, Sigfzed, Henry Green. The volume contains the minutes of 122 Meeting, viz. :-I at Chelford, I at Chester, I at Dean Row, 104 at Knutsford, 3 at Macclesfield, 8 at Ministers' houses, z at Nantwich, I at Stockport, I at Warrington. The first was held at Macclesfield,,Mar , the last at Knutsford, 3 Sept., Seen by me on 29 Nov., 1894, at Brook House, Knutsford, in care of Mr. Alfred Holt, a trustee of the chapel.-g. E E.

85 LANCASTER.-S. NICHOLASTREET. Opened First opened a~te MINISTERS. Robert Chaderton 1687 John Carrington -Sept James Grimshaw /5 John Bent ? John Holt 1730?- ~ohn Helme ?-ITTO James Daye Benjamin Harrison -13 Jan John Harrison -3 Oct Samuel Girle William Lamport George Lee Henry Alexander Hamilton Hunter Richard Shaen. M.A William Henry Herford. B.A John Henry Hope William Henry Herford. B.A., 2nd time David Davis. B.A Goodwyn Barmby Henry Solly John Calbraith Lunn William Macquhae Ainsworth Edward Potter Hall John Channing Pollard PLATE. Chalice. silver. 5 inches tall. stem. round foot. London date letter TWO handles added later. London date letter. I NO inscription. Origin unknown. Patens (2). electro. 8 inches diameter. 44 inches tall. stem. round foot. In centre- I. H. S. Inscription :- PRESENTED TO THE CONGREGATION OF ST. NICHOLASTREET CHAPEL. LANCASTER. BY MRS. HUTCHINSON. OF LUNE VILLA. OCTOBER 4TH REGISTERS. Baptisms and Registers TOPOGRAPHY. M S. C., p U. H., g Feb., Nighti~gale. v01. I p Latzcaster Unitaviaat Chapel. " William Hewitson Record. p. 80. Opened 27 Dec., 1848 ; preacher. Joseph Hutton. LL.D. First chapel " adjoining the Almshouse Garth." Opened 25 March MINISTERS. Richard Stretton. M.A. 1672?-1677 Thomas Sharp. M.A Timothy Manlove. M.D Peter Peters s William Pendlebury. M.A Joseph Cappe Thomas Walker. M.A Nathaniel White Joseph Priestley. LL.D Thomas Jervis William Wood. F.L.S Joseph Hutton. LL.D

86 Charles Wicksteed, B.A Thomas Hincks, B.A Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M.A Charles Hargrove, M.A Chalice, silver, modern. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Deaths Baptisms Burials I Births and Baptisms Burials IV. Births and Baptisms M. R., 1812 p M. S. C., p C. R., 1847, var. pp. C. R., 1849, p Memory of the Jwt, Charles Wicksteed, B.A., MiaZZ, p Ing., 21 April, C. L., 16 Feb., Date of Congregation, Opened, 26 Aug., 1868 ; preacher, Charles Wicksteed, B.A. Thomas Read Elliott Dendy Agate, B.A Michael Smith Dunbar, M.A Robert Roberts John Fox Iflq., 5 Sept., Date of Congregation, Opened 1708; first in Hangman's Lane, now Newarke Street. William Simms Nicholas Keslyn Thomas Davye Thomas Gee James Watson Hugh Worthington, M.A. Robert Jacomb Charles Berry.. Charles Clement Coe Robert Laird Collier, D.D... John Page Hopps.., Henry Gow, B.A.,.. Chalices (4), silver, 69 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Inscription :- BELONGING TO THE GREAT MEETING, LEICESTER, Date letter, worn and indistinct. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms 1&-1;8~ 111. Births and Baptisms IV. Births and Baptisms V. Burials VI. Burials I

87 History and Antigzrities of the Cowzty of Leicester, John Nichols, F.S.A., 1815, vol. I, pt. 2, p C. R., 1828, p M. R., 1828, p Cmtenary Book of Gveat Meeting S~lnday Schools, Date of Congregation, Opened 22 June, 1875 ; preacher, Henry William Crosskey, LL.D., F.G.S. William Mitchell Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A John James Wright John Calbraith Lunn Jabez Moden William Agar Date of Congregation, 1657? Opened Edward Newton, M.A Thomas Barnard John Olive ? Ebenezer ~ohnston \Villiam johnson Richard Shiells William Evans Bishop... John Langdon... Evan Davies... Samuel Parker William Johnston... Thomas Walker Horsfield Charles Porteous Valentine... Joseph Charles Meeke... Samuel Wood, B.A Arthur Lupton, B.A.... William Smith, F.L.S John Robertson... Thomas Carter William Saltmarshe Smith Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. William Mason Charles Davies Badland, M.A. Histovy of Lewes, Rev. T. W. Horsfield, 2 vols., M. R., 1824, p C. R., 1863, p East S.ussex and West Ke~zt U. Mng., I 887, p. 84. S. U. M., 1888, pp. 7, 14. L. P. A., p. 25. LINCOLN. -HIGH STREET. Date of Congregation, about 1673 Chapel built 1725, on ground bought by Mr. Daniel Disney and nine others. Re-opened for Unitarian Worship 19 Aug ; preacher, Charles Wellbeloved.

88 Michael Drake Thomas Cooper Joseph Cappe John Heywood John Hodgson... John Dunkley'... Chajel used by Methodists Henry Howson Israel Worsley... James Hawkes Richard Shawcross... John Philp Joseph Charles Meeke Israel Worsley (W&)... John Lampray Francis Fisher... Charles Case Nutter.. Joseph Smith Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. William Matthews John William Rogers... William Rodger Smyth... Francis Revitt... Cups (2), copper-plated, 76 inches tall, plain bell, stem, knop, foot. Patens (2), copper-plated, 7 inches diameter, plain ; each three small feet. No inscriptions, origin unknown. - M. R., 1819, p. 2x3. LISCARD.-MANOR ROAD. Date of Congregation, Feb., Temporary church opened g Oct., Priestley Prime a Valentine David Davis, B.A L. U. A., p Record, p. 85. Date of Congregation, Opened 17 Sept., 1871 ; preacher, James Martineau, D.D. First met in Roscommon Street, now Board Schools. Benjamin Glover John Cuckson.., William Edward Mellone Samuel Fletcher Williams Herbert Vincent Mills Felix Taylor, B.A John Towle Marriott I Oct. to death, 22 Nov., 1890 John McGavin Sloan Stbppliecl by,ynorth-end Donzestic Jlissio~z Ifzq., 30 Sept., L. U. A., p Record, p. 88.

89 Opened 18 Oct., 1849 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. First in Kaye Street, licensed 24 Nov., Next in Paradise Street, opened 11 Sept., MI'NISTERS. James Lawton Christopher Bassnett... John Breckell..... Philip Taylor John Yates Pendlebury Houghton... John Grundy James Martineau, LL.D., S.T.D.,, - D.D., D.C.L Joseph Henry Hutton, M.A., Suffly William Henry Channing Charles Wicksteed, B.A Alexander Gordon, M.A Edmund Martin Geldart, M.A.... Charles John Perry, B.A.... Kichard Acland Armstrong, B.A.... Chalices (2) silver, 4+ inches tall, bell, foot. London date letter, I Inscription on bell, between handles :- THE GIFT OF MRS. M. ~LOUGH TO KAY STREET MEETING HOUSE, LIVERPOOL, Patens (2) pewter, 92 inches in diameter ; faint remains of a crest on upper side of rim of each. Patens (2) silver, 10 inches in diameter, plain ; rinl has 6 raised bosses. London date letter, I I.

90 REGISTERS. I. Baptisms I Births and Baptisms Baptisms.. I Tmghton's History of Livev$ooZ, printed by Wm. Robinson, vol. 2, 1810, p. 382, a fine engraving of Paradise Street Chapel. (See M. Gregson's copy in Liverpool Free Library.) M. S. C., p C. R., 1848, p C. R., 1849, p C. F,, 1866, p Liverpool Mercuvy, 3 May, I 888. C. L., 21 Sept., Nightingale, vol. 6, 1893, p. I 18. L. U. A., p L. on W., June, 1894 Recovd, p. go. LIVERPOOL. RENSHAW STREET CHAPEL PULPIT 181 I. Date of Congregation, about Opened 20 Oct., 1811; preachers, Robert Lewin, am. ; John Grundy, p.m. First in Castle Hey [now Harrington Street] ; built about Next in Benn's Garden ; opened G~oztlld ~ O Y new buildilzg in Ullet Road bouglzt MHNXSTERS. Christopher Richardson Richard Holt 1695?-1717 Henry Winder, D.D John Henderson, D.D., 1746?-1763 William Enfield, LL.D.., Robert Lewin..*..,

91 Nicholas Clayton, D.D. Joseph Smith George Harris William Hincki, F.L.S. John Hincks a.. John Hamilton Thorn William Henry Channing John Hamilton Thorn (2nd time) Edward Samuel Howse, B.A., Assistant James Edwin Odgers, M.A.,,, Charles Beard, B.A. Henry Gow, B.A., Assistant Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, M.A. Leopold Martial Baynard de Beaumont Klein, DSc. Cups (2) silver, 10 inches tall; bell, knop, stem, foot, quite plain. London date letter, Inscription very roughly cut on under side of each foot :- I755 Patens (2) silver, 8 inches diameter. London date letter, In centre of each, in a glory :- I. H. S. Inscription on under side of each :- THESE PLATES ARE PRESENTED TO THE RENSHAW STREET CHAPEL BY THE JUNIOR MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION DURING THE MINISTRY OF THE REVEREND I. H. THOM, ANNO DOMINI, REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms IV. Burials V. Births and Baptisms I MSS. The Origifi and History of the Society of Unitariagt Chr.istifl.~zs assembling itz the ChakeZ Renshaw Street, Liverfool. By Henry Taylor, Dec., [In custody of Chapel Trustees. Lent to G. E. E., and line for line copy made by him, Original vol., in red leather covers, now 1896, kept in office of Chapel Solicitor, Mr. James Thornely, Fenwick Street, where also G. E. E. deposited all minute books and school registers, &C., used by him for reference when compiling his history of the Congregation.] Original plans of seats, with seatholders' names, at opening,of Renshaw Street Chapel, 181 I. Letters, Reports, &C., Benn's Garden and Renshaw Street Chapels, , large folio vol., bound in white vellum. Chapel Calelzclars, as edited by Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D., Oct., 1877-March, 1888, complete set, bound in black leather. The Heyer, Mo~nt Pleasant Sztnday Schools, as edited by? George Eyre Evans, Feb., 1884-June, 1889, and Mr. Thos. G. Raleigh, July, I 889-Oct., I 891, complete set, with all portraits, 3 vols. A Metnorial of tlze Fivst Dedication Service at Reftshaw Street Chnpel, List of communicants ; address by Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. ; order of service ; portraits, views, and original drawings and illuminations, &C., one vol., quarto, bound red morocco. Sztndny Sclzool Reports, I , one v01., brown leather. All these pews me G. E. E. M. R., 1811, p M. S. C., 1825, P A Few Rerninisce~zces of Benm's Gardclz atzd RensJznw Street, I 868. [Timothy Jevons.] History of Rejzshaw Stveet Chapel, George Eyre Evans. London, I 887. Hafly Hours of Work afzd Worship, George Eyre Evans. Liverpool, L. U. A., p. III. Nightingale, vol. 6, 1893, p. I 10. Recovd, p. 99.

92 NOTE.-^ the Library belonging to this Congregation is a thin, small quarto MS. vol. containing the minutes of 8 meetings of the Warrington Class, viz., one at Ashton, 31 May, 1722; one at Gateacre, 17 March, : four at Liverpool, 22 April, 1719; g Aug., 1721 ; 20 Sept., 1721 ; 8 NOV., 1721 ; and two at St. Helens, 6 Aug., 1719, and I Feb., This inscription is written on front page :- 6d This book appertaks to tlze Wa~.riltgto?r Class, being bottglzt by the Ministers thereof 1719." It was originally bound in vellum, and so continued till 1872; between then and 1886 the cover was removed. In 1887 the leaves (uncut) were gathered together and bound in their present leather cover by G. E. E., who also made a line for line copy of the entries. The meeting on 8 Nov., 1721, was '' at Castle Hey Chappel, in Leverpool, beginning at Ten a clock," when " a Day of Humiliation " was " observed upon account of the plague," there being present Chas. Owen, moderator and preacher; Henry Roughley, John Kennion, Joseph Gellibrand, Christopher Basnett, Tetlaw, Alx: Wright, Jos. Lawton, --. Mather, and Henry Winder, Scribe. Henry Winder's library, and some of his MSS. also belong to this Congregation. Amongst the remains now in the library are the MSS. : My last Sermoa fireaclted in ye old Chappet 076 FVednesday, Jlcne 28, 1727." 7 P8ter iv. 8. [<I And above all things have fervent charily among yourselves : for charity shall cover the multitude of sins"] ; and "An Accotcnt of ye Recaits and Disburs~~zetzts of ye Sncrimt money at Castle Hey Clzappel, 16 Nov., 1718, to 20 Dec., 1725." Other MSS. in this Library include a bound volume of Rev. John Seddon's lectures, Warrington, ; and the folio of Octagon Chapel (p. v.) Papers, 1762, both being gifts of the late Mr. Henry Arthur Bright. Amongst many rare printed volumes, liber ravissimus, is surely New Testament; GY. and Ettg., cot&tai?zing the origi~zal text and a new version, 2 vols., London, 8vo., It is anonymous, but by Daniel Mace (min. Newbury, )~ and is the first English attempt at a critical text, an odd version oddly printed. Of this Congregation I was a member from I Jan., 1874 to 30 June, 1889; of its Sunday School a teacher from 4 Jan., 1874, to 27 Oct., 1877; and its superintendent from 4 Nov., 1877, to 30 June, 1889 ; of the Chapel Council a member from 29 Feb., 1880, to 30 June, 1889 ; and of the Library and 'Publication Committee a member from 13 March, 1881, to 30 June, 1889,-G. E. E. LIVERPOOL.-OCTAGON CNAPEL, TEMPLE COURT. Date of Congregation, Opened 5 June, 1763 ; closed 25 Feb., Nicholas Clayton, D.D Hezekiah Kirkpatrick ? REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms &IsS. Octagon Chapel Papevs, 1762, folio, in Library of Renshaw Street Chapel, presented by Mr. Henry Arthur Bright. History of Livcvfool, Wm. Enfield, 1774, p. 47. Troztghton's History of Liverpool, printed by Wm. Robinson, vol. 2, 1810, p. 381, a fine engraving of S. Catherine's Church, formerly Octagon Chapel. (See M. Gregson's copy in Liverpool Free Library.) Proceedings of Historic Society of Laltcashire nlzd CJieshivc, , pp , and , p. 20. Livevfiool Chzwches and Clznfels, David Thorn, I 854, pp Histovy of Renshaw Street Chapcl, George Eyre Evans ; London, 1857, p. 10. Nightingab, vol. 6, 1893, p Recovd, p. 98. ~I[VE~PO~~.-TOXTETH PARK CHAPEL. (Commonly called A lzcient Chapel of Toxte fk Park.) Opened 1774; north front built 1841; restored Date on a pew door:-d M. Date on bell : First chapel opened Wichard Mather Thomas Hu&o)n Thornas ~porn~ton, M.A /

93 h1 ichael Briscoe Christoper Richardson, M.A Samuel Angier John Kennion Joseph Gellibrand, Stq5kly m * - L C17371 William Harding Hugh Anderson John Porter John Hamilton Thorn Charles Wicksteed, B.A Henry Giles John Robberds Charles Barnes Upton, B.A., B.Sc James Harwood, B.A James Edwin Odgers, M.A Valentine David Davis, B.A John Briggs Lloyd Flagon (I), pewter, gilt lined, 11% inches tall, handle, beak, cover missing. Inscription on base, well cut and preserved :- PRESENTED TO THE REV. HUGH ANDERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE PARK CHAPEL BY THEIR FRIEND JOHN RICHARDSON. Paten (I), pewter, 7 inches diameter, foot missing. Cup (I), pewter, gilt lined, g inches tall, no handles; bell, stem, and foot ; extremely fine shape. Inscription on foot, same as above on flagon. Seen by me in a cupboard under pulpit on II Ap., G. E. E. Patens (z), electro, 10 inches diameter, plain. Inscription on under side of each :- PRESENTED TO THE CONGREGATION OF THE ANCIENT CHAPEL OF TOXTETH PARK, LIVERPOOL, MAY, 1873, BY THE REV. JOHN HAMILTON THOM, MINISTER OF THE CHAPEL I I. Cups (2), electro, 8 inches tall, no handles ; plain, bell, knop, stem, foot, round. This set was given to replace a silver set stolen from the chapel.-g. E. E.. M. S. C., p C. R., 1862, p Some Accozcnt of the Ancient Chafil of Toxteth Parh, Live~pooZ~ fvom theyeav 1618 to 7883, Valentine D. Davis, %.A. I,iverpool, C. L., 7 Sept., Niglztingale, vol. 6, 1893, p. 66. L. U. A., p Record, p Date of Congregation, Opened 18 January, 1888 ; preacher, Wm. Carey Walters. George Carter John Morgan Whiteman Harold Rylett Inq., 21 Jan., L. P. A., p. 16. L0 NDO N.-BLACKFRIARS, STAMFORD STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 12 Oct., 1823 ; preacher, Thomas Rees, LL.D. First in Tothill Street, opened before Second in Princes Street, Westminster, opened about Third in Princes Street, Westminster, opened 1799 ; closed 1818.

94 Thomas Cawton, B.A.... Vincent Alsop, ilf.a..,.... John Shower, A ssistn~zt... Nathaniel Taylor,,,... Samuel Lawrence,,,... John Kentish, YY... Daniel Mayo, Edmund Calamy, D.D.. Robert Whitehear, Assistn~st... Samuel Say..,..... Obadiah Hughes, D.D. Andrew Kippis, D.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. Thomas Jervis.. Pendlebury Houghton... William Good Thomas Rees, LL.D.... Edwin Chapman Thomas Wood... William Hincks, F.L.S.... John Thomas Cooper... Hugh Hutton, M.A.... Thomas Lethbridge Marshall... Robert Spears... Thomas Dunkerley, B.A. William Copeland Bowie William Jellie, B.A With this Congregation there was amalgamated, in 1823, that which formerly worshipped in S. THOMAS' STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK. Date of Congregation, about First "near the Maese," opened Second in S. Thomas' Street, opened 1703 ; closed Nathaniel Vincent, M.A.... John Sheffield Edmund Batsori, Assistant... Joshua Bayes, 9,.W. Henry Read, 19 Henry Read.. James Read, A ssistaftt. Thomas Newman, Y,.. Philip Furneaux, D.D.,,, Benjamin Dawson, LL.D.,,, Benjamin Corbyn, 9 9 Abraham Rees, D.D. Thomas Jervis.. "ames Tayler John Coates.. John Kentish, Assistafzt.. Thomas Rees, LL.D. wi~?soriz, vol. 4, 1808, pp. 57, 294. M* R*, 1823, PP* 419,556, 607, 631. Ifiq., 13 and 20 Sept., C. L., 13 April, LONDON.--BRIXTON, EFFRA ROAD. Opened 7 July, 1839 ; preacher, Thomas Wood. Thomas Wood (temporary)... William Linwood... Alexander MacNainee Walker... John Harrison, Ph.D.... Thomas Lethbridge Marshal1..., Jeffery Worthington, B.A William Macquhae Ainsworth... James Harwood, B.A. C. F., 1870, p. 169.

95 LONDON.-CROYDON, WELLESLEY ROAD. Date of Congregation, 11 Dec., Opened 17 Nov., 1883 ; preacher, Charles Beard, -. B.A., LL.D. i I ~obert Rodolph Suffield.., Edmund Martin Geldart, M.A Christopher James Street, M.A., LLB John Page Hopps Inq., 28 April and 24 Nov., LONDON. ----DEPTFORD, CHURCH STREET. Date of Congregation, Joseph Brown... William Moon Edwin Chapman John Omer Squier....,. Michael Castle Gascoigne... Thomas Timmins Samuel Burrows Alfred Joseph Marchant... -,, 1 c, 1 <<$l' "REGISTERS. I. Burials wilsmz, vol. 4, 1808, p. 257, L. P. A., p. 19. l Date of Congregation, Opened r Oct., 1893 ; preachers, William Holmshaw, a.m. ; William Copeland Bowie, p.m. John Farnsworth John Tinkler William Holmshaw Iq., 7 Oct., Essex Hall Yeay Book, 1894, p. 77. L. P. A., p. 16. Date of Congregation, Opened 25 March, 1858 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. First in Mare Street ; whence, in 1714, there was a secession to the Gravel Pit; third in New Gravel Pit, opened 4 Nov., 18og. William Bates, D.D. Robert Billio Matthew Henry Daniel Mayo... George Smyth.." Thomas Mole... Thomas Dawson, M.D.... Timothy Laugher....." - Law - Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S Thomas Morgan, LLB Joseph Priestley, LL.D Michael Maurice Thomas Belsham, Robert Aspland '845

96 Thomas Sadler, Ph.D John Boucher : Thomas Lethbridge Marshal Robert Brook Aspland, M.A James Thornely Whitehead Samuel Fletcher Williams S I. REGISTERS. Burials M. R., 1809, p C, R., 1857, p C. R., 1858, p Iq., 27 March, C. L., 16 March, New Gravel Pit, Hackney, J. T. Whitehead, Date of Congregation, Opened 5 June, 1862 ; preacher, James Martineau, D.D. Chancel added 26 Jan., 1886 ; preacher, Stopford Augustus Brooke, M.A. First probably rebuilt, Second opened 3 Aug., 1828 ; preacher, John Kenrick, M.A. Thomas Woodcock Zechariah Merrell John Partington, M.A..B. Joseph Simmons - Walton..m Robert Atkinson Richard Gardner Richard Amner Lionel Brown Edward Gibson John Fuller Rochemont Barbauld - Methuen Jeremiah Joyce -Shiel Samuel Catlow William Wilson George Kenrick Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. Brooke Herford, D.D. Chalice (I), silver gilt lined, 4% inches tall, 4 inches diameter, sogewhat similar to the M. H. chalice at Chester. London date letter, I Inscription on base :- SACRAMT- CUP, RAMPSTEAD MEETING, NOV. 20, Chalice (I), silver, 35 inches tall, 3% inches diameter. No inscription. Date letter obliterated. Similar to above chalice. Paten (I), silver, 8+ inches diameter, 3 inches tall, round foot ; plain. London date letter, Inscription on under surface :- MRS. BLUNDEN'S GIF TO HAMPS MEETING, NOV. 20, Paten (I), silver, modern copy of above. London date letter, I Inscription :- ROSSLYN HILL CHAPEL, HAMPSTEAD, E. E H. E. Flagon (I), silver, 13 inches tall, beak, handle; no lid; no inscription. London date letter, M. R., 1828, p C. R., 1845, p C. R., 1862, p Inq., 7 June and 16 Aug., Memories and Hofis, Thomas Sadler, Ph.D., London, r 862. Inq., 30 Jan., C. L., 14 Sept., Records of Hampstead, F. E. Baines, C.B., London, 1890, p. 96.

97 Date of Congregation, Opened I May, 1890 ; preacher, Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. School-house opened 20 Sept., 1885 ; preachers, Henry Ierson, M.A., a.m. ; Thomas Sadler, Ph.D., p.m. Robert Spears William George Marsden, Assistant: Uses the vessels formerly belonging to the Congregation, and lent to Robert Spears by the B. and F.U.A., whose property they are. Ijzq., 26 Sept., Irtq., 16 Nov., C. L., 3 May, IgZq., 10 May, L. P. A., p. 15. Date of Congregation, Opened S. Bartholomew's Day, 1862 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. First in Rutland House ; second in Meeting-house Court ; third in S. Anne's, opened 1721 ; fourth in Little Carter Lane, opened 5 Dec., 1734, preacher, Samuel Wright, D.D. Matthew Sylvester Richard Baxter, Assistant Edmund Calamy, D.D.,,, Samuel Stephens, 9, Samuel Wright, D.D. Jeremiah Burroughs, Assistant Thomas Newman, 9, Thomas Newman Edward Pickard, 4ssistant Edward Pickard.. John Tailor, Assistant Thomas Tayler,,, Thomas Tayler.... John Fuller, Assistant George Lewis,,, George Watson,,, Joseph Barrett,,, Joseph Barrett John Hoppus, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. John Scott Porter James Yates, M.A. Joseph Hutton, LL.D. Henry Solly.. Henry Ierson, M.A Thomas Wesley Freckelton... RichardJamesPlater REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms TOPOGRAPHY* Wilson, vol. 2, 1808, p History of a?$ English Pvesbytevian Clzzcrch, Henry Ierson, M.A., C. R., 1861, p C. R,, 1862, pp. 62, 573. C. U,, 1862, p Inq., 23 Aug., C. F., 1867, p. g. C. L., g Feb., 1889.

98 Date of Congregation, Opened 4 May, 1887; preacher, Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. First in Essex House, Strand, opened 17 April, 1774; preacher, Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. c. -.,*l. 2- Second in Essex Street Chapel, Strand, opened.$s" March, 1778 ; preacher, Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. Inscription on foundation stone :- This church has been erected by the Trustees of Essex Street Chapel, Strand, founded in 1774 by the Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, many years vicar of Catterick, Yorkshire, and this memorial stone was laid by William Rathbone, Esq., M.P., 25 February, Theophilus Lindsey, M.A John Disney, D.D Thomas Belsham Thomas Madge James Panton Ham William Carey Walters g. Frank Freeston * C REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Burials Wilson, vol. 3, 1808, p Iq., 27 Feb. and 6 March, Inq., 7 May, Date of Congregation, Opened 5 July, 1855 ; preacher, William Forster. William Forster Peter IVilliam Clayden James Panton Ham....S Clement Edwards Pike John Collins Odgers, B.A Leopold Martial Baynard de Beaumont Iclein, D.Sc. a Alexander Farquharson Cups (2), electro, 89 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Patens (3), electro, g inches diameter. Flagon (I), electro, 12 inches tall, beak, lid, handle. C* R., 1855, P* 579- C. F., 1868, p. g. Festival Book, Gzdd of the Good Shefhevd, Oct., Date of Congregation, Congregational Hall opened 11 Jan., 1896 ; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D. MINISTER. James Edmund Stronge Inq., 18 Jan., L. P. A,, p. 17.

99 Date of Congregation, Opened 26 May, 1833 ; preachers, Edward Tagart, F.S.A., a.m. ; and Robert Aspland, p.m. First in York Street, St. James's Square, opened rg Dec., 1824 ; preacher, Lant Carpenter, LL.D. Stephen Weaver Browne, B.A. John Small... James Cowdan Wallace Edward Tagart, F.S.A. John James Tayler, B.A James Martineau, D.D. Philip Henry Wicksteed, M.A. Henry Rawlings, M.A. Cups (4), electro, gilt lined, 8 inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. Patens (4), electro, 10 inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), electro, II* inches tall, beak, handle, lid, plain. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms M* R*, 1824, pp* 638, 698, M. R., 1825, P. IOI. C* R., 1833, PP- 239, 529. A Brief Histovy of the Unitaviatz Cotzgregation, Yovk Street Chapel, fvom its Ovigin in 7824 to its Removal in 7833, by a Member of the Congregation, C* R*, 1859, PP* 73, 185. Inq., 13 and 20 June, Personal arzd Social Christianity, Russell Lant Carpenter, R. A., 1893, p* 272. Date of Congregation, Opened 13 Dec., 1882 ; preacher, Thomas SadIer, Ph.D. First opened (temporarily) 18 July, 1875 ; preacher, Thomas Sadler, Ph.D, John Joseph Marten George Carter John Stephen Mummery, Ph.D John Morgan Whiteman George Carter, 2nd tiwe U. A., 1876, p. 48. Inq., 25 Jan., $4q., 16 Dec., L. P. A., p. 20. LONDON.-RICHMOND, ORMOND ROAD. Date of Congregation, Opened 16 April, 1896 ; preacher, William Edward Addis, M.A. Chailning Hall, Friar's Lane, opened October, MINISTER. Silas Farrington L. P. A., p. 18. C. L., 28 March and 18 April, Inq., 18 April,

100 Date of Congregation, Opened 1875 ; preacher, Henry Ierson, M.A. Edward Richard Grant 1873 Herman Bisbee 1874 Robert Spears William Stephens Thomas Bowen Evans, M.A John William Bishop Inq., 17 April, L. P. A., p. 17. LONDON.-STOKE NEWINGTON GREEN. Date of Congregation, before Built Enlarged and re-opened 11 Nov., 1860 ; preacher, Thomas Madge. John Russell Richard Biscoe... - Paterson... Robert Wheatear Loveder Hugh Worthington, M.A Lewis Smith... John Woyle Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S. Thomas Amory, D.D.... Joseph Towers, LL.D Gillebrand, D.D James Lindsay, D.D. John Kentish Rochemont Barbauld - Johnson... Thomas Rees, LL.D.... James Gilchrist. Nathaniel Phillips, D.D.... JohnHowardRyland... Samuel Wood, B.A. Edwin Chapman Thomas Cromwell, Ph.D., F.S.A. William Salmon Barringer James Kay Applebee James David Hirst Smyth William Wooding, B.A.... lark; j Chalices (2), silver, 5 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. London date letter, Inscription on each on bell, between, p,: s2-r %ry 'l- handles :- wd,plwaa 4 THE CONGREGATION NEWINGTON GREEN, Le %F?: ITZ~., 23 June, C. R., 1861, p. 27. C. F., 1868, p A~nz~aZCo~zg~egationReport,18g6. Date of Congregation, Opened " I,, * \ l S 5 -. Thomas Rix Jarnes Edward Stead L- e 6.. i.i ; /l[' 2j : '- i-

101 Samuel Sidaway Brettell, M.A Edward Thomas Russell Thomas Edward Minit Edwards C. F., 1869, p. 75. L. P. A., p. 17. LQPJDON.--IVANDSWORTH, EAST HILL. Date of Congregation, Opened 12 October, 1885 ; preacher, John Page Hopps. MINISTER. William George Tarrant, B.A Ifiq., 24 Oct, L. P. A., p. 15. Date of Congregation, Opened 21 Nov., 1891 ; preacher, Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M.A. MINISTER. John Stephen Mummery, Ph.D Inq., 28 Nov., L. P. A., p. 15. Date of Congregation, Opened 28 Sept., 1870 ; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. James Clayton Williarns William John Taylor Frank Parnall, B.A Andrew Doe Itq., 8 Oct., C. F., 1871, p. g. LOUGHBOROUGH.-VICTORIA STREET. Opened 14 Dec., 1864 ; preacher, Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. First opened before Closed 11 Dec., 1864; preacher, John James Bishop, B.A. Oliver Brumskill -- William Cross - John Vans ' Samuel Statham Thomas Bruckshaw - Abraham Broadley Thomas Owen.. William Parkinson.. Thomas Crompton Holland. Charles Clement Coe John James Bishop, B.A. Francis Henry Jones, B.A. John Calbraith Lunn, F.R.A.S. Edward Potter Hall John Pindar Bland, B.D. Clement Edwards Pike Evan David Priestley Evans John Williams Harry Edward Haycock o..

102 Chalice (I), electro, 6 inches tall, bell, foot, two handles. Patens (2), pewter, g inches diameter, plain. NoTE.-T~~ congregation owns a Baskett Bible, Inscription on cover :-L'T~~ GIFT OF THOS. FLETCHER, ESQ., TO THE CONGREGATION OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN LOUGHBOROUGH." REGISTERS. I. Births, Baptisms, and Deaths Inq., 24 Dec., Date of Congregation, Built Restored, enlarged, and re-opened, zo Sept., 1848 ; preacher, Robert Brook Aspland, M.A. First opened 28 March, 1695 ; preacher, Oliver Heywood, who also then " administered the Lord's Suppev to about fovty." - Milward John Byram... Joshua Dobson - Morton John Buck - Godward..... Hananiah Elston, M.A Holden... William Eden Robert Andrews... William Wilson Mather Joseph Marshal1... = ? 1701? ?-I724 I727? ' ?-1760 about 2 years Jeremiah Donoghue... John Nayler Frederic Hornblower.. George Heap Stanley, B.A... John Owen.. Noah Green,.... James Nettleton Dresser Edward Allen.. Benjamin Glover Thomas Wilson Scott. Edgar Solly Anthony, M. A., B. D.... John Hanson Green, B.A... Cup (I), electro, 79 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. Paten (I), electro, g# inches diameter. Flagon (I), electro, g+ inches tall, beak, lid, handle. A modern set ; no inscriptions nor date. CHAINED BOOKS still il~ sit%. In a recess in the Communion Table, and firmly chained to it, are the works of Archbishop Tillotson, in three folio volumes. A volume of sermons (David Clarkson's?) was also formerly in same depository, but gone in OLD OAK FURNITURE. Several pieces, including a rare carved four-post bedstead, long table, chairs, etc., were bequeathed, for the use of the minister for the time being, by H. J. Moorhouse, M.D., Stoney Bank, who died in 1890; and are now (1896) in the parsonage, where I saw them. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms I Burials I M. S. C., p Life of Oliver Heywood, Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., 1842, p C. R., 1848, p. 632.

103 Bvief history of the English Pws6yte vian Chapel and Congvegation at Lydgate, in the farish of Kirkbwrton, H. J. Morehouse, Huddersfield, Miall, p Date of Congregation, Opened ro Dec., 1861 ; preacher, Samuel Bache. First opened 5 Jan., 1806; preacher, James Scott. James Scott William Bowen William Cochrane James Kedwards Thomas Bennett Broadrick Thomas Pipe , Isaac Wrigley, B.A M. R., 1806, p. 52. C. R., 1830, p Inq., 14 Dec., The Scott MSS. at Cradley (q. v.), and Built 1689 ; Licensed 15 January, Conveyed to trustees Bi-centenary celebrated 18 Oct., 1891 ; preachers, Samuel Alfred Steinthal, a.m. and p.m. ; Joseph Freeston, afternoon. Chairman of Meeting in Town Hall, 19 Oct., 1891, Mr. William C. Brocklehurst, of Prestbury. Joseph Eaton, M.D. here 1691, gone by 1697 Nathaniel Scholes Adam Holland, M.D.. I703?-1716 Thomas Culcheth Benjamin Street r&hn Boult &,t;? john Palmer Lowthion Pollock George Cheetham William Fillingham Thomas Morgan Williams George Vance Smith, B.A., Ph.D., D.D John Wright, B.A Joseph Charles Meeke Thomas Felix Thomas Chapel closcd John Tait Russell Supplies Joseph Freeston Cup (I), silver, 8 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot, round. London date letter, Inscription on bell :-. Ex DONO THOMAS CULCHETH V D M Cup (I), silver, similar to above. London date letter, Inscription on bell :- Paten (I), silver, 8+ inches diameter, foot, stem. London date letter, Inscription in centre :- THE GIFT OF SARAH, WIDOW OF THE LATE JOHN BROCKLEHURST, ESQ., OF JORDANGATE, MACCLESFIELD, Patens (2), silver, g& inches diameter. London date letter, Inscription, same as on above paten. L

104 Baptismal bowl, pewter, round, 13ginches diameter, 2 inches deep. No date, no inscription. Very similar to bowl at Dob Lane Chapel. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms M, S. C., p, 123. Urwick, p Ifiq., 24 Oct., Record, p Nol~.-The large Bible in reading desk has this inscription printed on its front cover :- PRESENTED FOR THE USE OF THE PULPIT BY MRS. BROCKLEHURST, MRS. HALL, MRS. NEEDHAM, MRS. WM. BROCKLEHURST, MRS. JNO. BROCKLEHURST. 2';. Date of Congregation, Built 1736, restored and re-opened 3 Jan., 1875 ; preacher, Edw. Richard Grant. From 1672? until 1736 the congregation worshipped in the chancel of S. Faith's Church. John Crump ?-1669/70 George Swinnock, M.A Samuel Borfet Robert Perrot.... John Durant.. Luke Langdon... William Jacombe Benjamin Mills Israel Lewis William Hazlitt, M.A. Abraham Harris... Joseph Smith George Kenrick Benjamin Mardon, M.A. William Stevens... John Jennings, B.A.... Robert Edwards Barnes Maclellan Edward Richard Grant Evan Ceredig Jones, M.A.....-* Harold Rylett Charles Roper, B.A.... Edwin George Cammidge... Arrowsmith Hyde Shelley Arthur Leslie Smith, B.A.... John Basil Barnhill Chalice (I), silver, inches tall, bell, foot. London date letter, I Inscription :- THE GIFT OF MRS. CATH. HARRIS, FOR THE USE OF THE MEETING, Chalice (I), silver, 3 inches tall, porringer shape. London date letter, Patens (2)) electro, 10 inches diameter. Flagon (I), electro, g inches tall, beak, handle, lid with small erect Latin cross. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms , Baptisms

105 M. R., 1827, p Histovy of th~ old Pwsbytevian Co~zg~egattion of R. E. B. Maclellan, Ifiq., 27 Dec., Inp., 3 and 31 Jan., C. R,,, 1863, p. 68. Inq., 16 Jan., L. P. A., p. 25. Maidstone REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p figid, p I~zq., 19 Jan., MALTON.-WHEELGATE. Date of Congregation, Built 1715 ; enlarged Restored and re-opened g Jan., 1878 ; preacher; Samuel Alfred Steinthal. Henry Gilbert Hananiah Elston - Thompson.. B John Bartlett..... Patrick Corcoran., Marmaduke Charles Frankland John Nayler..,. Herbert ~unkerton William Sutherland..,... John Sutcliffe James Wilson... John Roughey Samuel Jenkinson... The Popple" cup, antique Sheffield plate, bell slightly embossed, stem, gilt-lined. Date, probably Date of Congregation, Opened 24 June, 1694 ; preacher, Henry Newcome, M.A. Henry Newcome, M.A John Chorlton Gaskeld, Assistant 1697-Nov., 1698 James Coningham, M.A Eliezer Birch Joseph Mottershead Joshua Jones John Seddon, h.i.a Robert Gore Ralph Harrison Thomas Barnes, D.D John Grundy John Gooch Robberds John Hugh Worthington William Gaskell, M.A James Panton Ham James Drummond, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D Sallzuel Alfred Steinthal William Hamilton Drummond, B.A Edwin Pinder Barrow, M.A

106 Flagon (I), silver, 12 inches tall, handle, lid, no beak. London date letter, Crest much worn, apparently a stag's head, antlered, rising out of crown or collar. Below :- Ex DONO, N. GASKELL. The Ex Dolzo has evidently been an after-insertion ; this applies also to all the other pieces so marked. Flagon (I), silver, 12 inches tall, handle, lid ; no beak, no crest. London date letter, No inscription. Cups (3), silver, 106, 95, g* inches tall, plain bell, knop, stem, foot, round, no handles. London date letter, All have same crest as above flagon, and inscription- Ex DONO, N. GASKELL. Cup (I), silver, 9% inches tall, plain bell, knop, stem, foot, round; no handles, no crest, no inscription. London date letter, Chalice (I), silver, 5% inches tall, bell, foot, round. Date letter much worn. Inscription on bell :- THE GIFT OF ANNE BAYLEY, Patens (3), silver, 15 inches diameter, 12 inches tall, foot, stem, round. In centre of three, same crest and inscription as on above (I) flagon, and 3 chalices. London date letter, All these pieces were exhibited at the meeting held in the Memorial Hall, Manchester, on 25 June, 1894, to commemorate the Bi-centenary of Cross Street Chapel, where seen by me.-g. E. E. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms and Births and Baptisms BirthsandBaptisms IV. Births and Baptisms Burials I ' V. Burials * No. V also contains copies of a great portion of the entries in the four other books. m. S. C., p C. R*, 1843, P* 473. Unitavianism Exhibited in its Actzca! Condition, p. 11 I, edited by Rev. J. R. Beard, D.D., London, Rise of No~zconfovfitity in Manchestev, Richard Wade, Manchester, I 880. Memovials of a Dissenting Chapel, MTntzchester, Sir Thomas Baker, Manchester, Nightingale, vol. 5, 1893, p. 81. L. on W., 1894, p Proceedings of the Bi-centclzavy of the Chapel, Jzc~ze, 7894, Manchester, Record, p NoTE.-T~~ Trustees of this chapel have in their custody a thick folio volume, bound in vellum, being the MS. Minutes of the first classis of the County Palatine of Lancashire, Seen by me at the Bi-centenary, on 25 June, 1894,-G. E. E. Date of Congregation, about Opened 20 Dec., 1871 ; preacher, John Relly Beard, D.D. Gorton Protestant Dissenters' Chapel opened, John Jollie not before Thomas Dickenson before 7 May, Nehemiah Reyner befove 1712 [I~OZ?j-1731 Samuel Hanson John Atchison William Dodge Cooper Joseph Ramsbottom Joseph Jefferies..., Charles Danvers Hort George Henry Wells, M.A Dendy Agate, B.A George Evans, M.A

107 Chalices (2)) silver, 33 inches tall. London date letter much worn, but probably I I. Patens (2)) pewter, 10 inches diameter, plain. M. S. C., p lnq., 23 Dec., C. L., g March, Nightingale, vol. 5, 1893, p. 50. Record, p. 62. Date of Congregation, Opened 7 June, 1883; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. Edward Cornelius Towne, B.A William Mitchell Philemon Moore, B.A Arthur William Fox, M.A Wilfred Harris, M.A Inq., 16 June, Record, p Date of Congregation, Opened 6 Feb., 1892 ; preacher, Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A. MINISTER. Charles Roper, B.A Inq., 13 Feb., Record, p, I 19. MANCHESTER.-OLDHAM ROAD. Date of Congregation, 29 March, Opened 12 Sept., 1883 ; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. School-house opened 14 June, 1863 ; preachers, William Gaskell, M.A., and John Relly Beard, D.D. Williaxn George Cadman Arthur Harvie Iq., 20 June, 1863, Ifzq., 22 Sept., Frcc Christinn Pioneer a~zd Ufzitarinn C/zvonicb, Sept., I 888, p. 5. Recovd, p Date of Congregation, 20 Jan., Opened 2 June, 1874 ; preacher, Robert Laird Collier, D.D. First worshipped in Ford Street Chapel, Salford. PAPNISTERS. John McDowell Alic Herbert Dolphin Inq., 6 June, Recovd, p. I 21. Date of Congregation, Opened 11 May, First opened 1700 ; preacher, James Grimshaw.

108 . Henry Finch RobertHesketh John Whitaker Robert Andrews John Houghton 1755?-1758 Richard Meanley Sq?y5lied by Manchester Acadenzy George Checkley #. Joseph Lawton Syddal, Sufifily William Whitelegge Samuel Alfred Steinthal Charles Thomas Poynting, B.A Chalice (I), silver, porringer shape, 2# inches tall, 4a inches, diameter, bold ornamentation, burnished on finely-punched ground, consisting of an oval medallion in centre, on each side. of this a plant with 4 radial leaves, a stiff upright stalk with 3 conventional bell-like flowers, semi-petalous ; following theflowers, and dividing the two sides of the chalice, are elegantlydesigned $euvs-de-lis; the lower part of the handles are attached to the chalice in the centre of the Jez,tvs-de-1;s. Maker's mark, apparently a Roman capital M, on a shield. London date letter, No inscription. This chalice is the oldest piece of plate owned by any congregation belonging to the Province of anc. cash. ire and Cheshire. Chalice (I), silver, porringer or caudle shape, 5 inches diameter, 4+ inches tall ; base has poppies and lilies in high relief. On medallion, between handles, AI. No inscription. London date letter, NOTE.--^ 1874 these two chalices were sold, and passed into private hands. In 1895 they were restored to Platt Chapel, on the one condition that they are to remain the property of the Trustees, who receive them on the understanding that they are never to be again alienated by sale or otherwise. Both chalices, in small oak chest, seen by me in Sept., 1895, in custody of Charles T. Poynting, B.A.-G. E. E. MANCHESTER. PLATT CHAPEL ,

109 - 'M. S. C., p. Sr. Histoyy of Ancicfit Choj5el of Birch, Rev. John Booker (Chetham Society). c* R., 1859, pp* 277, 367- U. H., 20 July, Niglztingale, vol. 5, 1893, p Rccovd, p Opened 17 June, 1838 ; preacher, George Harris. William Mountford, M.A John Relly Beard, D.D Brooke Herford, D.D John Towle Marriott.., Alfred Payne Daniel Rees, M.A., Ph.D.... ~ Flagon (I), electro, g* inches tall, lid, beak, handle. Paten (I), electro, g inches diameter, 2 inches tall, stem, foot. Chalice (I), electro, 7% inches tall, bell, knop, stem, foot. All inscribed- STRANGEWAYS I 838 CHAPEL, Paten (I), and chalice (I), similar to above, but no inscription. C. R., 1838, p C. R., 1846, p Remi~ziscences of Stvagzgeways C, S. Grundy, L. 012 W., April, ii Recovd, pp. I 17, 126.

110 MANCHESTER.-UPPER BROOK STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened I Sept., 1839 ; preacher, James Martineau, D.D., a.m. ; John Gooch Robberds, p.m. First in Moseley Street, opened 1789; preacher, William Turner. William Hawkes John James Tayler, B.A Joseph Henry Hutton, M.A Edwin Smith, M.A William Henry Herford, B.A Silas Farrington John Trevor, Christopher James Street, M.A., LL.B Charles Peach Flagons (z), electro, 14 inches tall, lid, beak, handle. Patens (2), electro, 13 inches diameter, Chalices (z), electro, 7 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. No inscriptions. M. S. C., p C. R., 1837, p L. 012 W., October, Bazaar Book, I 895. Recovd, p Robert Porter.. Samuel Coates Thomas Fletcher.. Isaac Thompson.., Samuel Shaw..- Eliezer Heywood.. Samuel Catlow.... Thomas Broadbent Joseph Bull Bristowe.. John Williams Charles William Robberds.. Willianz Linwood.. John George Teggin.... William Newton.. Alfred William Worthington, B.A. Charles Henry Wellbeloved.. John Frederick Smith Edgar Innes Fripp, B.A. Owen James Jones.. PLATE, Cups (2), electro, 8 inches tall. Patens (2), electro, 10 inches diameter. Flagon (I), electro. A modern set ; no inscriptions. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Baptisms TOPOGRAPHY, C. F., 1871, p C. L., 20 July, Date of Congregation, Opened 1701.

111 Date of Congregation, Opened I May, 1873; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D., a,m. ; Robert Spears, p.m. S First in West Street, opened 30 June, 1833 ; preacher, William Turner. Closed 27 April, 1873 ; preacher, Henry Hill. Daniel Berry... John Bevan *.. Willlam Brunton. Samuel Robinson.. Henry Hill. Luther Spencer William Stoddart, B.A... Francis Wood.. John Bevan, 2nd time. James Butcher Gardner.. William Henry Lambelle C. R., 1833, p C. L., 24 Aug., Inq., 10 May, Date of Congregation, Opened 17 June, 1893 ; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D. First chapel opened g June, 1872 ; preacher, George Henry Wells, M.A. Benjamin Glover ~ John George Slater James Edward Stead Alfred Lancaster Ifiq., 24 June, 1893, Record, p MONTON CHURCH. Date of Congregation, Opened 23 Sept., 1875 ; preacher, William Gaskell, M.A. First built about 1697, when ground bought. Second opened Edmund Jones..,... Roger Baldwin... [Edward Sill?l Thomas Crompton, M.A..., ~ererniah Aldred... John Chorley Richard ~ od~son..,.. Iiichard Bolton John Ludd Fenner. George Smith.... Harry Toulmin.*. George Wyche Thomas Knowles Robert Smethurst Thomas Elford Poynting James Harwood, B.A Bhilip Martineau Higginson, M.A A modern set.

112 REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials Burials..* Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p History of Monton Chapel, T [homas] Elford Poynting, Itzq., 2 Oct., Nightingale, vol. 5, 1893, p. I..&cord, p MORETON HAMPSTEAD.-CROSS CHAPEL. Date of Congregation, Opened 31 Oct., 1802 ; preacher, James Manning. ~irst chapel opened about 1692, and enlarged Robert Woolcombe, M.A. Angel Sparke 0.0 Micaijah Towgood. John Parr James Hews Bransby Daniel Harson James Rowland Services by Laymen... ".. Thomas Cooper John Smethurst John Briggs Lloyd William Smith Kentish Bache William Henry Eastlake James Ruddle Frederick Teesdale Reid Chalice (I), silver, 4 inches tall, $3 inches diameter, 2 handles. London date letter, Given by the widow of John Lane, REGISTER. ' I. Baptisms O MZCYC~, p, 471. Date of Congregation, before Built Henry Terry William Foot Richard Harrison, M.A Thomas.a John Collier.." Jacob Isaac Uftited with Cross Chapel 1818 Mzcrch, p hq., 23 Sept., Date of Congregation, Opened zo Oct., 1852 ; preacher, Charles Wicksteed, B.A. George Fox John Ellis M

113 Daniel Berry John George Slater Ephraim Turland a Thomas Read Elliott TOPOGRAPHY. C R., pp etc. L. ouz W., p Recovd. p Date of Congregation Opened 15 Nov., 1846; preachers. Dr. Frederic R. Lees. of Leeds. a.m. ; Joseph Barker. p.m. MINISTER. Noah Green TOPOGRAPHY. C. R., p Record. p NANT W ICE3.. HOSPITAL STREET. Date of Congregation. 1688? Opened 18 May School-house opened 14 Oct., 1896 ; preacher. Henry Enfield Dowson. B.A. First chapel in Pepper Street. MINISTERS. Samuel Lawrence Joseph Mottershead William Vawdrey Thomas Haynes Richard Meanley Joseph Priestley. LL.D. John Houghton. Richard Hodgson William Johns David William Jones Francis Knowles James Hawkes Francis Hornblower Thomas Bowring Robert Wilkinson Thomas Willicott Elijah Whittaker Hopkinson James Macdonald Thomas Bennett Broadrick Joseph Hardinge Matthews Samuel Sidaway Brettell, M.A William Robinson, SuppZy Samuel Sidaway Brettell, M.A. John Morley Mills..* PLATE. Cup (I). electro. 89 inches tall. bell. stem. foot. plain. In- scription :- NANTWICH PRESENTED BY SOME MEMBERS RENSHAW ST. CONGREGATION. LIVERPOOL. OF THE Paten (I). electro. g inches diameter. Same inscription. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials TOPOGRAPHY. Historicnl Accoufit of the Town nad Pavish of Nantwich. Partridge. Shrewsbury p. 56. M. S. C., p. I24. C. R., p. 55. C. R., p. 61. Urwick p. I 15.

114 History of fhe Town and Parish of Janles Hall, 1883, p Iftq., 25 Aug., Record, p Na~ttwicic~ or Wick hfalbank, Date of Congregation, Opened 11 Nov., 1884; preacher, Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A. School-house opened 30 May, 1863 ; preacher, Peter William Clayden. Henry Calloway.+... James Nettleton Dresser... Samuel Robinson... John Fox... Walter Lloyd... Herbert Mann Livens David John Williams... Edward Rattenbury Hodges... Inq., 6 June, I~tq., Nov., ' Foundation Stone laid 12 May, John Southwell TVilliam Taylor, B.A ?-1701 James Peirce ?-1713 Joseph Standen Full size of Engraving on front of Mug. NEWBURY. THE "EUNN17" MUG. I

115 Daniel Mace John Blackburn David James John Kitcat Peter Thomas Davies Williarn Vrilson..v Goodwyn Barmby 3 mos C- F- Smith Robert Harris..a Frederic Rowland Young Richard Shelley ' William Robinson Charles Matthews S j Mug (I), silver, 46 inches tall, 36 inches diameter, one handle. Bunny coat of arms opposite handle. London date letter, Given by Brice Bunny, Esq. Mug (I), silver, made to match above in 184.8, and baught with part of bequest by T. Rolfe for that purpose. London date letter, Patens (2), silver, 9% inches diameter, plain, bought in 1848, with mug. London date letter, Paten (I), silver, 66 inches diameter, 3Q inches tall, stem and ioot, bought in 1848 with mug and patens. Londorl date letter, r Patens (2), silver, 53 inches diameter; modern. WEGISTE W. Births, Baptisms, Burials... I C. R., 1832, pp. 274, 313, 362. C. R., 1859, pp. 121, 175. Newbury Weekly Nezus, 22 and 29 March, L. P. A., p. 26.

116 Date of Congregation, Opened 13 April, 1854 ; preacher, Henry Montgomery, LL.D. First meeting-house in the Close, opened about 1685; second in Hanover Square, opened Richard Gilpin, M.D. William Durant, M.A. (occasiorrzal pveachev here? ) William Pell, M.A., Assistant Timothy Manlove,,, Thomas Bradbury,,, Benjamin Bennett Nathaniel Fancourt, Assistant Samuel Lawrence, D.D. Richard Rogerson Samuel Lowthion Robert Hood, D.D. William Turner Joseph McAlister.- George Harris WilliamNewton James Christopher Street Alfred Payne... Frank TValters "The ancient plate was sold some years ago, in part payment of a modern service."-frank WALTERS, 5 NOV., The plate thus disposed of is said to have been inscribed :- CHURCH DR. RICHARD GILPIN, PASTOR D REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms A Short Sketch of the History of Protestant Nonconformitj and of the Society Assembling in Hanover Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Rev. William Turner, I 81 I. M. R. 1811, pp. 513, 586, 722. M. S. C., p Unitarianism in its Actual Condition, J. R. Beard, D.D., 1846, p Inq., 23 April, Inq., 15 April, Newcastle Chronicle, 14 April, I 854. Inq., 18 May, Nonconfoovnzity in Newcastle 200 years ago, James Clephan, 25 Aug., C. F., 1866, p L. on W., March, Date of Congregation, ante Opened Restored and re-opened 16 April, 1820 ; preacher, Hugh Hutton, M.A. First meeting-house destroyed by rioters, George Long, M. D.... ; William Brayn 1707?-171 I Samuel Lawrence, D.D. ord. here William Willets Edward Lomas 1800?-1804 Chafiel closed I William Fillingham

117 Thomas Cooper... Henry Green, M.A., SuPPly Henry Clarke... John Fife Manderson... Thomas Cooper, 2nd time... Henry Jones Chapel closed... Thomas Wesley Freckelton John Ellis... Noah Green James Clayton Williams William John Taylor... Frank Parnall, B.A.... Andrew Doel Sufiplies... Chalice (I), silver, 34 inches tall, 4 inches diameter, two handles. London date letter, Very similar (though smaller) to the M. H. chalice at Chester. No inscription. M. R., 1818, p M. R., 1819, p M. R., 1820, p M. R., 1821, p M. R., 1827, p. 66. C. R., 1853, p Histo~ical Records of Newcastle-z~nder-Lyltte, Ingamell, I 88 I, P. 39. Inq., 25 May and I June, No~~.-on Sunday, 21 June, 1896, I conducted divine services, a.m, and p-m., in this chapel, the congregation on both occasions entering and leaving the building through the parish churchyard.-g. E. E. Date of Congregation, Opened Good Friday, 1865 ; preacher, Thomas Hincks, B.A. First opened 1808 ; enlarged Unpaid preachers, principa.11~ Joseph Cooke (d. I~II), and John Ash-!- worth (d. 1852) George Hoade..% William Elliott.. John Kertain Smith... Samuel Fletcher Williams AlbertLazenby William Rose Shanks William Alfred Clarke M-. R., 1815, PP. 313, 392- Ashworth's Account of the Rise and ~kog-vcss of Doctf/.ilze ivz... Newchz~rch, &G., I~zp., g April, Iq., 29 April, C. F., 1869, p RecowZ, p tha Unitnrian NEWPORT (Isle of Wight).-HIGH STREET. Built 1774, Enlarged and reopened 12 Oct., 1825 ; preachers, Michael Maurice and Russell Scott..First chapel and burial ground in Pyle Street built before 1728.

118 Richard Clarke William Mott John Sturch Gabriel Watts Robert Aspland John Tingcombe Benjamin Goodier, William Hughes,,, William Stevens Edmund Kell John Crawfurd Woods, B.A. John Davis, M.A. James Macferran Thomas Felix Thornas Williarn Hargrave John Taylor Benjamin Lepard Green Edward Rattenbury Hodges John Dendy, B.A. William Jesse Jupp Paten (I), silver, g inches diameter. Inscription on paten :- PLATE FOR THE COMMUNION SERVICE, CONSISTING OF FLAGON, CHALICE, PATEN, AND THIS SET WAS PRESENTED TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNITARIAN CHAPEL, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT, REV. THOMAS F. THOMAS, MINISTER, AUGUST 24~~, 1862, BY WILLIAM MORTIMER, SENIOR MEMBER AND TRUSTEE, AS A BI-CENTENARY MEMORIAL OF THE TWO THOUSAND EJECTED CLERGYMEN. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Births and Baptisms M. R., 1825, P C* R*, 1847, PP. 543, 735- Mug (I), silver, 4 inches tall, one handle. Date letter indistinct. Inscription :- Date of Congregation, Foundation-stone laid by Lady Manfield, Lady Day, Chapel in King Street opened 21 Sept., 1827 ; + preachers, Robert Aspland, a.m. ; William Field, pm. No~~.--This mug was the gift of the late T. Cooke, Esq., J.P.. after the death of his father, having belonged to their ancestors John and Jane Cooke, and their descendants. Used by the General Baptists and Unitarians from 1728 to August, 1862, for the administration of the Lord's Supper.- G. E. E. Cup (I), silver, 7 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. Flagon (I), silver, 8$ inches tall, beak, lid, handle. Plate (I), silver, g inches diameter. Noah Jones Joseph Charles Meeke William Arthur Jones, M.A John Crawford Woods, B.A Walter David Jeremy, M.A John Samuel Gilbert Reginald Rogers

119 James Knowles Montgomery Percy Bakewell, B.A. Iden Payne Richard Elliott Birks Edward Richard Grant... Frederick Lawton, M.A.... James Christopher Street... Felix Taylor, B.A Thornas Wesley Freckelton REGISTER. I. Births C. R., 1827, P M. R., 1827, p Ifiq., 28 Jan., Ifiq., 4 April, MOR'I'ON CHAPEL. Date of Congregation, before Built John Wood, M.A Thomas Rose... 16gc-1700 Nathan Denton Lowe NORTOM HALL. - Lowe ?,John Wood ?-1723? - Warren ,John Holland Daniel Lowe ThomasHalliday

120 John Williams.S. NORTON CHAPEL...a 1794?-1804 Robert Aspland April-May, 1805 Henry Hunt Piper REGISTER. I. Baptisms M. S. C., p Histovy of Chestevficld, 1839, p NOR W ICH.-OCTAGON CHAPEL. Opened 12 May, r756 ; preacher, John Taylor, D.D. " Presbyterian meeting-place " in S. Stephen's parish, in Jonathan Wilson's house, licensed 30 April, Black Friars' Granary, 14 May, Chapel in S. George's, Colegate, NORWICH. OCTAGON CHAPEL. ONE OF THE FOUR COVERED CHALICES John Collinges, D.D.... Josiah Chorley, M.A. Beter Finch John Brooke John Taylor, I1.D. Edward Crane Thomas Dixon Samuel Bourn a...a. John Hoyle a.. Robert Alderson.. George Cadogan Morgan ) William Enfield, LL.D.... Pendlebury Houghton... Theophilus Browne, M.A... Pendlebury Houghton (2nd time)...

121 Thomas Madge ' Edward Tagart William Johnstone Bakewell Joseph Crompton, M.A. Joseph Henry Hutton, M.A. David Davis. B.A. James David Hirst Smyth Alexander Gordon. M.A. Henry Woods Perris Art hur William Timmis Edwin George Cammidge Harry ~erbert Snell, B.A. Charles Peach Edgar Maurice Daplyn PLATE. Chalices (4). with loose covers. silver. 10% inches tall to point of cover. 7% inches tall to rim. g inches tall to t3p of handles. urn.shaped. stem. foot. two handles. beaded ornament round foot and cover. and acorn top ; 4+ inches diameter at top. 3% inches diameter at base. London date letter when believed to have been bought by Congregation. Patens (6). silver. g inches diameter. slight rim. Date letter. London Inscription :- THE GIFT OF MR. JOHN RAINING. Double monogram in centre of every Paten :- J. F. P. C. Date under every monogram, NOTE.-John Raining. linen draper. Norwich (d. 18 March ). married Frances Mottram (b. 26 Jan., d. 15 July. 1730); their daughters Frances (I 704). Sarah (1707)) Lydia (1709). Hannah (1710). and Deborah (1713). were all baptized in the third Chapel. cf. James Mottram. Norwich ~- REGISTE I. Baptisms Burials I I1 Baptisms TOPOGRAPHY. C R., pp* C. R., pp Histovy of Octagon Chapel. Novwich. by the late John Taylor. &C., Inq., 29 March C. F., p Browne. p Inq., 26 February and 5 March Fellowship p. 75. NOTTT1NGHAM.-HIGH PAVEMENT. Date of Congregation Opened 28 April ; preacher. Chas. Beard. B.A., LL.D. First built Second opened g June ; preacher. Hugh Worthington. MINISTERS. John Whitlock. M.A. William Keynolds. M.A. John Barrett. B.A. John Whitlock. Jr. John Hardy Nathaniel Whitlock Obadiah Hughes Samuel Eaton. D.D. Joseph Evans. Assistatzt Isaac Smithson.. Isaac Smithson John Milne Thomas Bruckshaw John Simpson George Walker. F.R.S. Nathaniel Phillips. D.D. Nicholas Clayton. D.D.

122 William Walters... Robert Kell James Tayler... John Grundy... William Pitt Scargill... Richard Fry..... Joseph Hutton, LL.D.... Henry Turner... Benjamin Carpenter Peter William Clayden... Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A.. James Harwood, B.A. IVilliam Edward Addis, M.A.... Chalice (I), silver, two handles. London date letter, Inscription :- THE GIFT OF ALEXR- BURDEN, ALDM TO THE HIGH PAVEMENT SOCIETY, NOTTINGHAM, Chalices (2), silver, 46 inches tall, two handles. London date letter, I Inscription :- BELONGING TO THE HIGH PAVEMENT SOCIETY, NOTTINGHAM. Patens (2), electro. Flagon (I), electro, 144 inches tall. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms IV. Births and Raptisms ,- ' c. R., 1850, PP. 346, 419, 534, 607, 741. C. R., 1851, p Presbyterianism in Nottingham, Benjamin Carpenter, I 862. Igzq., 6 May, High Pavement Bicentenary, Date of Congregation, Opened 16 June, 1864; preacher, Brooke Herford, D.D. First place of meeting in Freeman Street. William Henry Quinn... Joseph William Smith Thomas Harrison..... Charles Lawrence Whitham... John Williams.. Valentine David Davis, B.A.... Edward Rathenbury I3odges... James William Braithwaite Ivzq., 25 June, C. F., 1871, P. 41. Opened 12 July, 1807 ; preacher, Joshua Toulmin, D.D. First built Occasional Ministers, Revs. Messrs. Turton (ejected from Rowley), Russell, and Tonks ; settled Ministers, the same as Birmingham Old Meeting from Greenwood to C1arke."-MS. of REV. JAMES SCOTT, of Cradley. Daniel Greenwood Edward Brodhurst Daniel Mattock Joseph Wilkinson William Howell Samuel Clark....., John Bradford? N

123 William Procter Herbert Jenkins, Supply - Fordyce 9 9 Samuel Griffiths Samuel Goode, Sz@ply Timothy Davis William McKean Henry McKean, J.P. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms I IV, Births and Baptisms V. Births and Baptisms M. R., 1807, p C. F., 1870, p Gztild of the Good Shepherd Festival Book, Date of Congregation, Opened 15 November, 1877 ; preacher, Henry William Crosskey, LL.D. Room in Henshaw Street opened 23 May, 1813; Preacher, James Brooks. First Chapel opened 4 Jan., 1816 ; preacher, John Grundy. Benjamin Goodier Sevvices ~~zni~ztainerl by lay fiveachevs ad sufifilies. [Catholics and Methodists Iznd use of Chapel I William Johnson 1839?-1843 William Smith Scholefield, M.D George Hoade Charles William Robberds Timothy Arthur Peaton Andrew Chalmers Francis Henry Jones, B.A Alexander Farquharson Thomas Leyland 1895 John Arthur Pearson..* M. R., 1813, p M. R., 1816, p Record, p ChakeZ Calenda~, Nov., I 896, et seq. Date of Congregation, Opened Meetings in private houses, Licensed house at Bickerstaffe, and private chapel at Scarisbrick, Chapel in Chapel Street opened Nathaniel Heywopd, B.A. (I) Nathaniel Heywood (2) Hugh Worthington 1..a. Peter Seddon.. Alexander Wright..S Edward Crane Benjamin Sandford a.. Henry Holland a.. S.. George Checkley Joseph Barrett a.. Peter Walkden Fogg..m Henry Fogg.m. S..

124 196 REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Record, p OXFO RD.-MANCHESTER COLLEGE CHAPEL. Present building opened 18 October, 1893 ; Preacher, Henry Enfield Dowson, B.A. ; Address to communicants by Jarnes Martineau, D.D.. Services began 1889, and are regularly conducted by the Principal, Professors, and selected preachers. A modern silver set, presented by over 80 old students of the College. Inscription on paten, from the pen of James Martineau, D.D. :-- THESE MEMORIALS OF THE LAST SUPPER WERE PRESENTED TO MANCHESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD, FOR THE COMMUNION TABLE OF ITS CHAPEL ON ITS DEDICATION, OCTOBER 18, 1893, BY PAST STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE, IN GRATITUDE FOR ITS FREE TEACHING, AND REVERENCE FOR ITS INTERPRETATION OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. Cups (2), silver, 8+ inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. Patens (2), silver, g inches diameter, plain. Paten (I), silver, 8 inches diameter, plain, short stem, circular foot. Above inscription in centre. Flagon (I), silver, 12 inches tall, handle, lid, beak, plain. All in oak chest, inscribed on lid :- MANCHESTER COLLEGE OXFORD. MDCCCXCII. Mdmorial Voluvze, Maficlzester College, Oxford, 1893 Uanies Edwin Odgers, M.A.], London, 1894, Date of Congregation, Opened 30 April, 1874 ; preacher, William Gaskell, M.A. First opened 22 June, 1823 ; preacher, John Grundy. From 1806 to 1855 services were conducted by unpaid preachers, notably by Joseph Cooke (d. 8 1, James Pollard (d. 1848), John Robinson (d. 1848), and Henry Deane (d. Edward Allen Robert Hammond Cotton, M.A., BSc Henry Shaen Solly, M.A, Christopher James Street, M.A., LL.B John McGavin Sloan Edward Thomas RusseH ' C REGISTERS. I. Births and Namings Baptisms Burials Ashworth's Accozt~zt, &G., I 815 M. S. C., p. 15r. C. R., 1849, p C. F,, 1871, p, 153. Iaq.9 9 May, The Pise and P~ogress of Unitnvianisvz iz Padiham, I 88 I [C hristopher James Street]. Recmd, p. 148.

125 PARK LANE (NEAR WIGAN). Date of Congregation, Opened Thomas Blinstone. Timothy Gardner Samuel Park John Brownlow Hezekiah Kirkpatrick.. Thomas Broadbent Thomas Smith.. Francis Knowles A James Bayley.. George Fox. James Edward Stead Cups (2), pewter, 6; inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot; no handles. Maker's stamp, RICHARD CONSTANTINE. Paten (I), pewter, g* inches diameter, plain. Chalices (2), silver, 8 inches tall, plain bell, ltnop, stem, foot Inscription on each :- PRESENTED TO PARK LANE CHAPEL BY MRS. ESTHER BROADBENT. Paten (I), silver, 10% inches diameter. Inscription in centre :--, PRESENTED TO PARK LANE CHAPEL BY MRS. ESTHER BROADBENT. Flagon (I), silver, handle, beak, lid. Inscription on one slde :- PARK LANE CHAPEL. On other side :- PRESENTED BY ANN ELIZABETH AND MARGARET SHAW REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials... I I 111. Births and Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p C. F., 1871, p. 89. Nightilzgale, vol. 4, 1892, p. 44. Record, p History of Park Lane Chapel, George Fox, PLY MOUTH.-TREVILLE STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 13 May, 1832 ; preacher, Henry Acton. First chapel built George Hughes, B.D. Thomas Mdrtyn Nicholas Sherwill, M.A Nathaniel Jacob Nathaniel Harding Henry Brett, Assistaftt Joseph Cock,,, Henry Moore,,, Henry Moore... John Reynell -. $ John Hanmer (CO-pastor? ).. Thomas Watson... Thomas Porter John Kentish... John Jones, LL.D.... John Tingcombe John Jones......

126 Israel Worsley William James Odgers John Hill Henry Knott John Kertain Smith, Assista~t Thomas Wesley Freckelton William Sharman.. George Evans, M.A. William Binns John Shackleton Mathers, M.A. Cup (I), silver, 7 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, circular foot. London date letter, probably Inscription round bell, under the lip :- BOUGHT BY AND FOR THE USE OF THAT CHURCH IN PLYMOUTH OF WHICH NATHANIEL HARDING ES PASTOR Cup (I), silver, 7 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, circular foot, almost same pattern as above. London date letter, probably Same inscription, in same position, as above. Paten (I), silver, g+ inches diameter, plain, short stem, circular foot. London date letter, probably Indistinct monogram (E. M.?) in centre, with date of 1710 under it. Flagon (I), silver, 12 inches tall, handle, beak, lid with erect Latin cross. London date letter, Inscription :- UNITARIAN CHAPEL, PLYMOUTH. PRESENTED BY MARY ANN GRANT REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms L. f I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms M, S. C., p C. R., 1832, p Mgrclt, p. 495.

127 A Brief History of tlze Plyw ovth Unitarian Cofig~egation, William James Odgers, London, Ifiq., 2 Aug., No~zconformity itt Plymo~th, R. N. Worth, POOLE. HIGH STREET CHAPEL. THE CLOCK GIVEN BY "MASTER MARINERS." Date of Congregation, Opened g Dec., 1868; preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. First chapel licensed 14 Jan., 1705 ; enlarged John Wesley, M.A William Madgwick.. ord. 11 Oct., Matthew Towgood Thomas Rowe Samuel Hayward Samuel Phillips John Howell Evan Davies William Lamport Abraham Bennett John Mitchelson hiark Rowntree Sutflies, principally, Mr. Alfred Balston William Henry Channing Jan.-May, 1877 William Agar. I Frederick Teasdale Reed George Hamilton Vance, B.D Supplies, principally, Mr. Edwin John Wilkins Edgar Solly Anthony, M.A., B.D Resolz~tion of 29 Oct., 1722, preserved among the church deeds :- " Whereas Mrs, Joan Green has been pleased of her bounty

128 to bestow two silver cups or muggs on the Church of Christ, in Poole, of which Wm. Madgwick is pastor, for the use of the said church in the celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and a brass candlestick, We promise and engage that neither we ourselves, nor our executors, administrators, or assigns shall or will alienate them to any other use, and that in case any such contentions should rise as to cause a breach or division in the said church, it shall be in the power of the said Mrs. Green, during the term of her natural life, and after her decease it shall be in the power of her executors, to dispose of the said two silver cupps or muggs, and candlestick, to such branch of the division as she or her executors shall think fit. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this twentyninth day of October, Anno Domini WM. MADGWICK, RICHARD SUTTON, JOHN LINTHORNE, THOMAS JOYCE, WM. FFOOKE, BENJAMIN BIFORD, JOHN HOOKEY, JOHN ROSE, INO. OLLIVE, GEORGE OLLIVE, TIMOTHY BIRD, RICHARD BU SHELL." The cups referred to in this resolution are now (1896) in possession of Skinner Street Congregational Church, which represents the secession from the original church in REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials I M. S. C., p. f28. M~ch, p Inq., 21 March and 12 Dec., U. H., 15 June, S. U. M,, , p C. L., 3 May, Date of Congregation, about Opened early in First in Penny Street opened John Hicks before May, Thomas Clarke Francis IVilliams Simon Browne John Norman Thomas Wren, D.D. Russell Scott... Henry Hawkes, B.A., F.L.S.... William Edward Mellone... Thomas Timmins William Birks... Edwin George Cammidge... Isaac Wrigley, B.A.... Chalice (I), silver, a small porringer pot, floral work between handles. London date letter, ' Inscription on bottom :- E. D. M. Chalice (I), silver, a small porringer pot, somewhat similar to above. London date letter, , Weight 6 oz. 13 dwts. Inscription on bottom :- Chalice (I), silver, a small porringer pot, somewhat similar to above two. London date letter, Weight 8 oz. 2 dwts. Given by Mrs. Farrington. Inscription on bottom :-,l- :$ A* + L*':: Chalice (I), silver, small bell, with circular band in middle running round between handles. London date letter, I Inscription on base :- :: C. P. F.

129 Patens (2), pewter, 12 inches diameter, feezcv-h-zis border. Inscription :- I. H. S Patens (2)) electro, g inches diameter, same border and inscription. Flagon (I), electro, 15 inches tall, lid, handle, beak. Same inscription as on patens. NoTE.-T~~ following extract is from a MS. Treasurer's Book; dated Portsmth., 1697 " :- U Memo, July 17, There is one large two-handled silver cupp, poizd 8 oz. I pt., marked in the bottom with two large letters, A. L., given by Mrs. Elizabeth Farrington for the use of the society at the Sacrament, to be lodged in the minister's hand, and is now lodged with Mr. Norman, our minister. '' There is also two large mettle pewter plates, purchased by the society for the same use, commonly lodged in the meeting-place. There is also a large folio Bible, given by an unknown hand, to lay upon the desk in the meeting-house. There is one two-handled silver cupp, poizd 6 oz. 13 pts., engraved in the bottom: ' The Gift of Ann Howell, widdow, given to this Church.' Lodged in Mr. Palmer's hands, and now in Mr. Norman's hand." REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials Izq., 21 Jan., S. U. M., , pp. 56, &C., W. Tarring. PORTSMOUTH.-S. THOMAS' STREET. G.B. Founded about 1640 by preaching of James Sicklemore. Opened 10 Jan., 1865 ; preacher, William James. First.-chapel built about Second chapel built 1715 ; restored and re-opened 29 May, 1814 ; preacher, Sampson Kingsford. Restored and re-opened 1857 ; preacher, Samuel Martin. -- Wentworth Richard Drinkwater ? Thomas Bowes, assistant and co-pastor -1712? John Sturch,.. Donald Austen John Howe? John Mills... John Kingsford, Assistant... Joseph Brent,,... Joseph Brent....*. Thomas Foster Edward Richard Grant, Assistant... John Ellis... Barnard Gisby John Clarke, -M.A..,.... Francis Wood... REGISTERS. 1. Births and Deaths IPZ~,, 20 Aug., S. U. M., , pp. 154, 166. Taylor's Hist. Gert. Bapt., 1818, i, 294. Opened Henry Holland... - [Timothy Gardner] Samuel Park..a John Willding David Jones * - S Peter Houghton William Tullidelph Procter

130 Gilbert William Elliott Alfred Hardy %Tilliam Annetts Pope Thomas Jones REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials TOPOGRAP1:IY. M. S. C., p Nightingale. v p Rccovd. p PRESTON.--CHURCH STREET. Opened \ John Gwenogvryn Evans. M.A William John Taylor s William Sharman Robert Scammell Clarke Joseph Harrison REGISTERS. I Baptisms I1. Baptisms I Burials TOPOGRAPHY. M. S. C., p C R., P* 441 Inq., 18 Sept., Nightingale. v01. I p. g. Record. p MINISTERS. John Parr John Turner John Pilkington Thomas Astley John Cooke. M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.. F.A.S. Richard Bolton William Tattersall. M.D. David Evans Thomas Rees a.. William Manning Walker John Rudd. F.L.S. Thnmas Crompton Holland Robert Cree James Cowdan Wallace Joseph Ashton William Croke Squier Robert John Orr. M.A. Frank Walters Date of Congregation Opened 6 Nov., 1861 ; preacher. Robert Brook Aspland. MINISTERS. John Lawton Haigh Henry Eachus. J.P. William Alfred Clarke John Bevan Elijah Whittaker Hopkinson James Ruddle Harry Bode11 Smith Edward Thomas Russell George Lansdown John George Slater TOPOGRAPHY. Ifzq., g November C. F., p. 25.

131 Date of Congregation ; Trust Deed. 17 May Opened z Oct., 1853; preacher. George Harris. Restored and re-opened 31 March. 1887; preacher. James Edwin Odgers. M.A. First Chapel opened MINISTERS. Richard Whittaker John Ingham Lay Pveachi?zg William Sunderland Smith Alexander Stradling Abel Euckley William Matthews Henry Hill Richard Elliott Birks Ephraim Turland TOPOGRAPHY. M. S. C., p Ittq., 8 Oct., Record. p Date of Congregation. g April Opened 12 Dec., 1877; preacher. William Binns. MINISTERS. Harold Rylett Robert Rodolph Suffield Daniel Amos TOPOGRAPHY. Iq., 22 Dec., 1877 L. P. A., p RINGWOOD.-S. THOMAS' CHAPEL. Built Trust deed dated 16 April, S.. MINISTERS. Compton South. B.D. - Dammer James Whitaker Moses Carter a...s. a.. John Waldron..S William Wright Isaac [Israel?] Llewelyn Joseph Woolmer John Crisp a.. Thomas Howe William Gellibrand Joseph Jeffries a.. Benjamin Howell Thomas Jones S.. Thomas Warren.. Joseph Bull Bristowe Thomas Adams.. Thomas Hunter S.. Porter Orr a....a..v John Porter Thomas Hunter, 2nd time Robert Yelland..a William Agar, Sujjly Joseph William a.. Smith S..a. Sujf lies June-Dec PLATE. Chalice (I). silver. 39 inches tall. 4 inches diameter ; weight. 5 oz. 14 dwts. ; bell with lip. raised wreath of flowers round middle. no stem. no foot. No inscription. Date letter indistinct. 0

132 Bequeathed (will dated 17 Feb., 1871) to the congregation by Mrs. Sarah Adams (net Lake). wife of Thomas Adams. minister here I REGISTERS* I. Births and Baptisms Burials WIVIINGTBN CHAPEL. Date of Congregation Opened I703. MINISTERS. William Walker. M.A. I703 Ralph Ainsworth John Turner John Walker [Mayer?J heve 1725 Samuel Astley Abraham Dawson Samuel Bourn. tcrtiz~s William Gaskell Thomas Rawlins Nathaniel Hibbert James Taylor John Jenkins. M.A.. Supply George Henry Wells. M.A. William Rowlinson Edward Robinson Dimmock Charles William Robberds Cubitt Boardman Hubbard John Samuel Gilbert Samuel Thompson PLATE. No'r~.--The silver cups. formerly owned by this congregation. disappeared as follows :-They were in the custody of the old clerk. Richard Latham. or his brother. A traveller offered to exchange them for two new and bright cups. which appeared to the clerk to be very superior to those in his possession. He parted with them. thinking he had made a good bar- gain. of course. the new cups are base metal. not silver.-joiin W. CROM~TON. Rivington Hall. to G. E. E., ro Dec., TOPOGRAPHY. M. S. C., p Niglzti?zgaZe, v01. 3, 1892, p. 81. Recod, p Date of Congregation. ante 1672; trust deed dated Opened 11 June. 1857; preacher. James Martineau. D.D. First chapel in Lower Gates 1671/72 ; Second chapel in Blackwater Street opened MINISTERS. Robert Bath. M.A joseph Dawson 1698 (1699?)-1739 Richard Scholefield. Sz~fily Josiah Owen 1740/41-17jz Thomas Hoplcins. M.D...a Richard Bolton illiarn HassaIl John Cooke. M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.. F.A.S Thomas Threlkeld William Marshall Richard Astley Peter Wright a...d Gilbert William Elliott Franklin Howorth George Heaviside George Winchester Philp William Saltmarshe Smith Peter William Clayden 18.59

133 Simon Frederick Macdonald.., James Pillars, B.A Thomas Hirst Smith Thomas Carter Thomas Perkins Spedding Cups (2), pewter, 79 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. Patens (2), pewter, 9% inches diameter, plain. Inscription under rim :- S. S. M. Flagon (I), pewter, 12 inches tall, lid, beak, handle. NOTE.-T. P. Spedding writes, 3 July, 1895 : "This old communion service was found, after search, in 1891, at the warehouse of the late Mr. Robert Taylor Heape, J.P. There are no signs beyond the initials S.S'M. to denote the donor. Probably the initials refer to a member of the Milne family, early in the 18th century. No living person remembers anything of these vessels." REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p. 154 C. R., 1845, p C. R., 1855, cover of January number. Inq., 26 April, C. R., 1856, p C. R., 1857, p C. F., 1868, p Fishwick's Histovy of Pavislt of Rochdale, I 889, p. 25 I. Nightingale, vol. 3, 1892, p Manual of the Unitnvill.9~ Ch~rch, compiled by Thomas P. Spedding, I 893. Month$ Messengev, Rochdale, Oct., 1886-various years and pages. Record, p Opened I Aug., 1818 ; preacher, Richard Wright. providence Chapel opened 1807 ; preacher, Joseph Cooke. Unpaid preachers until 1862, principally Joseph Cooke, ejected from Wesleyan Circuit 1806 (d. 14 March, I~II), John Ashworth (d. I March, 1852), James Taylor (d. 11 September, 1856), and James Wilkinson (d. g May, 1858). S.. James Briggs Joseph Freeston Joseph Crowther Hirst Thomas Read Elliott Thomas Perkins Spedding Amalgamated with Blackwater Street Church October, Flagon, electro, 11 inches tall, cover, beak, and handle. Paten, electro, 10 inches diameter. Cups (2), electro, 84 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. All given by Ladies' Sewing Society, Ashzwovth's AGGOZL~Z~, GC., M. R., 1818, p M. S. C., 1825, p C. P., A short history of Clover Street Chnpel, Thomas P. Spedding ; 14 chapters in Monthly Messe~$gcr, Rochdale, June, 1887, to Oct., I 888. Nigkting~~le, vol. 3, 1892, Mccnzlal of U~zitavinn Church, compiled by Thoxnas P. Spedding, Record, p. 165.

134 Date of Congregation, ante Opened 18 Feb., 1880 ; Preacher, Henry Willia~n Crosskey, LL.D. First chapel built John Shawe, M.A Luke Clayton John Heywood... Isaac Bates, M.A.... John Rastrick, M.A. John Wadsworth Thomas Wilson... William Wilson... William Pendlebury, M.A.... Richard Baron, M.A., Assistant Samuel Moult Josiah Townsend William Allard Thomas Oliver Warwick, M.D. Jacob Brettell... William Blazeby, B.A.... William Stephens... REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms BirthsandBaptisms M. S. C., p C. R., 1841, p JfidZ, p A% old tiwe Vicav of Rottterhmz, 1Wfistev John Shnwo, Rev. W. Blazeby, B.A Date of Congregation, Opened 23 Sept., 1832 ; preacher, William Clack. Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A S@flies Joseph Charles Meeke '1. Richard Shaen, M.A Sufplies C. R., 1832, p ST. ALBANS.--LOWER DAGNALL STREET. Date of Congregation, Date of Chapel, Edmund Staunton, D.D William Jenkyn, M.A Isaac Loeffs, M.A ?-1680? Jonathan Grew, D.D Samuel Clark, D.D Jabez Hirons William Marshal John Mitchelson Philip Vincent Colernan NOTE.-Chapel sold, 1895, by order of Charity Commissioners, and proceeds handed to Provincial Assembly of London and the South-Eastern Counties.-G. E. E. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms

135 M. S. C., 1825, P Urwick's Hevts, 1884, p SAFFRON WALDEN.-HILL STREET. G.B. Date of Congregation, Opened 5 August, John Catlen..a Joseph Eedes John Clark.., Thomas Barron StephenPhilpot.a. John Cundill John Omer Squier John Marten Lindsey Thomas Badcock Jabez Aurther Brinkworth REGISTERS. I. Births I Births Burials M. S. C., 1825, p L. P. A., p. 27. Date of Congregation, a%te Opened 21 Sept., 1876; preacher, William Gaskell, M.A. Accidentally destroyed by fire, Sunday, 20 Dec., 1896, at 5.0 a.m. First chapel opened ante Present chapel, in Cross Street, opened Michael Fletcher ante 1700-post 1729 FVilliam Harding Nehemiah Reyner ? Joseph Mottershead, Sz@& altentately - Ralph H arrison do. - Robert Harrop., Gabriel Nichols, Supply WilliamJohns Supplied by M.N.C., Manchester. Matthew Gibson David Thompson John ell^ Beard, D.D James McConnochie Herbert Lawson James Forrest, M.A Cup, pewter, 7 inches tall, bell, stem, foot, plain. Paten, pewter, g inches diameter, plain. Flagon, pewter, 10 inches tall, beak, lid, handle, plain, ovigin ~nknown. Baptismal Font, electro, 6 inches diameter, ebony stand, given by Williani Scott, M. S. C., p Inq., 26 Jan., Urwick, p Inq., I I Sept., Inq., 23 and 30 Sept., Inq., 26 Dec., Record, p Date of Congregation, Opened 29 Aug., 1877; preacher, John Page Hopps.

136 MINISTERS* Joseph Crowther Hirst Dendy Agate, B.A Daniel Amos Samuel Fletcher Williams Emanuel Lewis Henshaw Thomas, B.A Itzq., I Sept., Date of Congregation, S. Michael's Chapel built Temporary church opened in Ousegate, 29 Nov., 1886; preacher, Andrew Chalmers. James Duncanson Jeremiah Milnes Colzg~egatio~t rebovted extinct B Oct., Noah Ward 1690?-1698 John Travers John Mush John Hodgson Jotharn Foljambe Thomas Smith George Hoade Joseph Eedes Fletcher William Elliott George Jones Joseph Mills Pilkington William Henry Eastlake Sz@5lies Chalice (I), silver, 43 inches tall, embossed bowl. date letter Inscription :- THE GIFT OF BEATRIX BACON TO THE CHAPPEL OF SELBY. ( London NOTE.-John Iienrick, M.A., F.S.A., in his printed, but not published, Memorials of the Presbyterian Chapel in St. Saviour Gate, York, 1869, says :-" The Presbyterian congregation at Selby was formed in 1660 ; their chapel in Long Mill Gate was rebuilt in Mrs. Beatrix Bacon was a great benefactress to the chapel. The family of Bacon intermarried with that of the Morritts, of Cawwood and Rokeby." REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p Miall, p [Covrected by Chapel Registev ; Dicke~sosz's Register, &G.] Itzq., 11 Dec., SHEFFIELD.-UPPER CHAPEL. : A j 6 & c ; ; Date of Congregation, +*I1,l.r,L fj,r I Opened 21 May, 1848; L/ Preachers, Henry Montgomery, LLB., a.m. ; John Relljr Beard, D.D., p.m. First chapel built 1678 ; second built James Fisher Robert Durant.., Timothy Jollie Jeremiah Gill, Assisfnnt - John Wadsworth,,, John De la Rose,,, : b$ *,;?P <\\X f.<.d 8d et.b3$:+ ~ ' & z ~ f! x t : 9 C

137 John Wadsworth Timothy Jollie, Jr., A ssistnfzt Daniel Clark, Benjamin Roberts, ),,, a Field Sylvester Wadsworth,,, Thomas Haynes Joseph Evans John Dickinson, Assistant Benjamin Naylor,,, Benjamin Naylor.& Nathaniel Phillips, D. D Bartholomew Teeling Stannus 1838-IQZ l'homas Hincks, B.A Brooke Herford, D.D John Lettis Short William Henry Channing, Su&ly 7 March-24 June, 1875 GeorgeVance Smith, B.A., Ph.D., D.D Thomas Wilson Scott Eli Fay, D.D John Pindar Bland, B.D John Edmondson Manning, M.A Chalice (I), silver, 43 inches tall, bell, foot. Date letter probably London Inscription on shield, between handles :- H. N. Chalice (I), silver, 55 inches tall, bell, foot. London date letter Inscription on bell, between handles :- SHEFFIELD UPR. CHAPEL Patens (2), electro, 10 inches diameter. In centre of each, in a glory :-. t I. H. S. Flagon (I), electro, 11 inches tall, lid, beak, handle. On front, in a glory :- t Hallanuhi~e, Joseph Hunter, 1819, p M. S. C., p C. R., 1848, p Date of Congregation, 17 Feb., Opened 17 July, 1861 ; Preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. Chancel built and chapel re-opened 13 April, 1890 ; Preachers, James Harwood, B.A., and James Edmonston Manning, M.A. ; Chairman of evening meeting, the Earl of Carlisle. John Page Hopps Thomas Willicot.....I James Butcher Gardner George Knight Charles Henry Osler Charles Peach John Ellis C. R., 1861, p C. F., 1871, p UPPerthor+e Chapcl, Charles Peach, I 893. SHEPTON MALEET.-COWL STREET. Date of Congregation, Built circa Restored and re-opened 28 Sept., 1886; Preacher, Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. First chapel at Downside.

138 David Calderwood. : John Cumming, M.A, Benjamin Aycrigg, S.S.T.M Matthew Towgood Anthony Atkey... ".. John Sherman, M.D Peard Jillard Benjamin Kiddel Henry Shute S... ZrL *..,.. john Evans Lewis Lewis John Owen Henry Solly... Simon Frederick Macdonald... Joseph Bull Bristowe Richard Shelley, Sufiily John Naylor Thomas Timmins Heber Williams.....-,.. Jabez Aurther Brinkworth James Cooper William Rodger Smyth Alexander Stradling... Lindsey Thomas Badcock Chalice (I), silver, inches tall, plain incurved bell, stem, foot, large handles. London date letter, I. Inscription :- THE GIFT OF WM. PROVIS THE YOUNGER TO THE CONGREGATION, COWL ST. CHAPEL, SHEPTON MALLET. Paten (I), silver, 9% inches diameter, short stem, foot. Same date letter and inscription as chalice. NOTE.-The communion table, chair, and pulpit with sounding board, are extremely interesting, and well worth seeing. I regret being unable to give sketches of them.-g. E. E. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms Burials... I LW. S. C., p Mzcvclz, p Iq., g Oct., 1886, and 2 Sept., Opened 25 Oct., Restored, enlarged, and re-opened, 12 March, 1885 ; Preacher, Henry William Crosskey, LL.D. John Bryan, M.A Francis Tallents, M.A James Owen Samuel Benion, M.D John Gyles, M.D John Reynolds Charles Berry Job Orton... * Francis Boult....,,.... I I 746 Moses Carter Joseph Fownes Benjamin Stapp I Ralph Harrison joseph Smith Pendlebury Moughton John Kowe S.. Arthur Aikin George Augustus Case Richard Astley James Riddell McKee Edward Myers, F.G.S James Christopher Street, Su@@ Jan.-April, 1897.

139 Cups (2), silver, g inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Hall-marks worn. Inscription on bell of each :- DONU~T I S Hu~c ECCLESIB EX RESIDUO BONORUM DOM* IOHS BRYAN TRANSLATION.-" The gift of I. S. to this church, from the residue of the goods of John Bryan " c NOTE.--Bryan died on 31 August, 1699, and was buried in S. Chad's, Shrewsbury. These fine cups were exhibited in the Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition held at Shrewsbury, in connection with the Church Congress, Patens (2), pewter, g inches diameter, plain.. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms *... I Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p C* R., 1847, PP. 250, 323. History of the Presbytelian Meeting- house, Shrewsbzrry, Richard Astley, Notes on Nonconformity in Shrewsbury," Eddowes's Journal, 8 July, Inq., 21 March, 1885: and 7 Nov., NOTES.-T~~ following inscription, written by Francis Tallents, M.A., placed over the inner entrance doors :- This place was not built for a faction or a party, but to promote repentance and faith in communion with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made Heaven and Earth. 225 In the church, amongst many other marble tablets, is this one :- -- p p To the Memory of CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, -l Author of The Orzgifi of Species. Born in Shrewsbury, February nth, In early life a member of and a constant worshipper in this Church. Died April ~gth, In the vestry are Job Orton's chair, and a large oil painting of the royal arms, formerly suspended over the pulpit. The fine clock on front of organ gallery, facing pulpit, is dated Built Bennet Stevenson, D.D. William Palk....".... William West..,... John Brown... John Lacy John Berry Benjamin Kiddel... John Hogg William Cllapman, Isaac Smith... William Hughes... Ednlund Butcher Mattl~ew Lee Yeates Nicholas Samuel Heinelcen William James Thomas Baker... Robert Gibson, Junr, P

140 Nicholas Samuel Heinelcen, 21zd time Joseph Bull Bristowe Charles William Robberds Joseph William Smith Benjamin Mardon, M.A. John Bsiggs Lloyd Thomas Robert Dobson John Gow, B.A. John George Teggin Robert Yelland Henry Morgan Dare Chalice (I), silver, 6 inches tall, in curved bell, stem, foot, raised beading round bell and between handles. London date letter Paten (I), silver, 8 inches diameter, fluted border, three small feet. ' London date letter, REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Burials I a I~zq., Maivch, p C. R., 1845) p g Oct., Edillund Kell, M.A Iden ~ayne Daniel Amos Henry Shaen Solly, M.A William Stephens David Davis, C. R., 1859, p C, R,, 18G0, p Date of Congregation, Opened 7 August, 1867 ; Preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. Edward Samuel Howse,.B.A Thomas Holland, B.A Charles Henry Wellbeloved C. F., 1867, p. 89. I~zg., 10 Aug., E. U. A., 1892, p Recovd, p F Date of Congregation, Opened 22 March, 1860 ; preacher, Robert Brook Aspland. William Hall... a Hugh Hutton Thomas Felix Thornas Opened 4 Feb., 1874 ; preacher, James Christopher Street. Thomas Leyland William John Taylor Richard Cowley Smith

141 William Henry Lambelle William ~e'nr~ Eastlake Alexander Ashwort h Joseph Geary Iq., 14 Feb., Date of Congregation, Jan., Opened 17 Feb., 1870 ; Preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. Francis Revitt Alexander Ashworth Joseph Freeston William Harrison Chalice (I), electro, 84 inches tall. Paten (I), electro, 8$ inches diameter, beaded border. Flagon (I), glass, 12 inches tall. Bought by the congregation in I~zq,, 29 May, 1869, being copy of document placed under foundation stone, laid I May, C. F., 1869, p Iwq., 26 Feb., U. H., 18 March, C. L., 28 Sept., * STAND CHAPEL. Opened g April, 1819 ; preacher, John Gooch Robberds. First chapel built MINISTERS, Robert Eaton 1689?-1701 Samuel Eaton Joseph Heywood William Harrison, M.A. William Bond William Dodge Cooper Richard Aubrey Thomas Smith Arthur Dean ~hbmas May Philip Pearsall Carpenter, B.A. John Cropper, M.A. William Croke Squier Robert Travers Herford, B.A.,., Chalice (I), silver, 49 inches tall, 5 inches diameter, bell, foot, cord pattern moulding round top, spiral fluting above the base. Inscription :- THE GIFT OF MARGARET WALKER On reverse, Medallion with Date letter, probably London I NOTE.-Margaret Walker was daughter-in-law of one of the original founders of this congregation. Paten (I), pewter, g inches diameter, plain. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms HI. B,irths and Baptisms

142 h[. S. C., p Nighti~zgale, vol. 3, 1892, p Mefizo~ials of Stand Chapel, R. Travers Herford, L. olz TV., June, Recovd, p STANNINGTON.-UNDERBANK Built CHAPEL. First chapel built 1652/53, at cost of Mr. Richard Spoone. Ralph Wood S.. Robert Matthewman Isaac Darwent - Hopwood Joseph Bacon - Revel?.... Timothy Dighton Thomas Mellor William Walker John Marsden William Walker George Crosland Abraham Dawson William Bagshaw..- Samuel Smith John Hall Josiah Rhodes Edward Gibson Astley Meanley Peter Wright Michael Alfred Moon Henry Hill William Henry Eastlake S.. a.. William Birks Edward Cornelius Towne, B.A Richard Cowley Smith Iden Payne..* Chalice (I), silver, 4% inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. fluted handles. London date letter, I Patens (3). pewter, g inches diameter, plain. On rim of all :- S. R. S. Alms dish (I), pewter, 10 inches diameter, 13 inches deep, rim I inch broad. On rim :- S. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Hallawshire, Joseph Hunter, 1819, p M. S. C., p Miall, p C. F., 1871, p Opened 23 March, 184.2; Preacher, Henry Montgomery, LL.D. First chapel built Second chapel (in High Street) opened John Byrom 1679?-1697? Richard Milne ?-1720

143 Samuel De la Rose James Hardy William Fletcher. m Joseph Clegg John Milne Joseph Booth Porteus James Wilson, M.A., D.D William Allard 1793 Edward Gibson Edward Higginson Samuel Parker Benjamin Rigby Davis I793?-V94? William Smith, F. L.S David Davis, B.A Richard Pilcher, B.A James Black, M.A Alfred Payne James Bayley c Andrew Macreight Creery, B.A Benjamin Charles Constable PLATE. Cups (2). silver. g inches tall. plain. bell. stem. foot. Date letter (worn). London. 1753? Patens (2). pewter. g+ inches diameter. plain. London maker's mark. Fowl. pewter. IO* inches diameter. I+ inches deep. London maker's mark. I Baptisms I1 Baptisms I III Baptisms I IV Baptisms I V. Baptisms I V1 Burials TOPC3GRAPI.Y. h1. S. C., p C. F., P Uvwick. p htq., 8 Oct., Recoyd. p Date of Congregation Opened 22 May ; Preacher. Charles Beard. B.A., LL.D. First chapel opened 21 July. 1699; rebuilt MINISTERS. Thomas Thompson John Thompson Andrew Blackie I753?-I785 Benjamin Evans Robert Marr 1792?-1803 Samuel Kennedy Eenjamin Evans, 2nd time Joseph Charles Meeke Charles Case Nutter William Duffield Thomas Cooper James McDowell Thomas Jones Read Robert Spears William Wynn Robinson William Elliott William Stoddart, B.A I-Pubert Clarke Martin Ringrose Tholnas Halliwell Thornas Edward Charles Bennelt Williain Henry Lambelle p896-

144 REGISTERS. I. Baptisms Marriages... ' Baptisms... I fif. S. C., p A Brief Histo~y of P~~otest~~zt No~zco~lfonnity and of the Society msembli~cg in the Old Meeting-home, High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Thomas Richmond, I 856. Tzvo Httndred Years, Stockton-on-Tees, I 888. Opened 6 July, 1788 ; preachers, Benjamin Carpenter, a.m. ; and James Scott, p.m. First chapel in Coventry Street built cigfca George Flower... John Edge Benjamin Carpenter... Herbert Jenkins Benjamin Carpenter, 21zd tiffre... James Scott.. Thomas Warren Alexander Paterson, M.A Alfred William Worthington, B.A., J.P. John Dendy, M.A. Robert Henry Gibson, B.A. David Maginnis... Arthur William Timmis... The Scott MSS., 3 vols., in custody of the minister for time being of this congregation. NI. X., 1817, p Eavly Histovy of Prcsbyteviajz Co~zggregntio~z, Stozufbvidge, A. W. Worthington, B.A., Eccrly Histovy of Presbyterian Co~zgvegation, Stozzrbvidge, part 2, A. W. Worthington, B.A., Notes as to Schools, A. W. Worthington, B.A., Opened 16 May, 1876; Preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. Richard Pilcher, B.A..." William Birks, F.R.A.S Henry Hill.., Iy., 27 May, Date of Congregation, Opened 23 June, 1867 ; preachers, Alfred Payne, a.m., and Henry Green, M.A., p.m. First chapel opened Henry Halford Jones John Colston, J.P Alfred Payne Philip Martineau Higginson, N.A John Collins Odgers, B.A John Hardy Felstead

145 Cups (2), pewter, 7% inches tall, bell, knop, stem, foot. Paten (I), pewter, 10 inches diameter, slightly ornamented rim. Given about 1840, by Robert Hyde Greg. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Ittq., 29 June, C. F., 1867, p Record, p Date of Congregation, Opened 29 May, 1831 ; preacher, William Turner. John Wright John Stephens Kobert Spears... Charles Matthews... Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. Noah Green John Bevan John Whitworth... James Macdonald... Mrilliam Elliott John Channing Pollard William Birks, F.R.A.S Jarnes Macdonald, 29zd time M. R., 1830, p M. R., 1831, p Date of Congregation, circa Opened 12 May, 1858; preacher, William Gaskell, M.A. School-house opened 14 August, William Harrison John Moore William Rose Shanks C. R., 1857, p C. R., 1858, p Inq., 22 May, L. 012 W., 1896, p. 51. Record, p Built Jonah Malchin before John Bpng before John Owen William Parkinson Thomas Bowring Charles Frederick Biss John Dean Richard Elliott Birks William Robinson Frederick Teasdale Read John Howard M. S. C., p Sibree, p. 238.

146 TAUNTON.--RIARY STREET. Built, 1721, for Baptists. Thomas Whinnel Joseph Jefferies Richard Harrison, M.A. Joshua Toulmin, D.D. Job David (last Baptist nzilzister) Henry Davies, LL.D. Thomas Walker Horsfield John George Teggin Robert Mortimer Montgomery William Arthur Jones, M.A. Philip Henry Wicksteed, M.A. John Birks Jeffery Worthington, B.A. Presbyterian Chapel in Tancred Street built circa 1732 ; congregation united with and removed to the Mary Street Chapel Thomas Amory John Ward Thomas Broadhurst John Ludd Fenner Cups (4), silver, g inches tall, bell, stem, foot. London date letter, Patens (z), silver, 10% inches diameter. Same date letter. Flagons (z), silver, 12 inches tall. Same date letter. Inscription on all the eight vessels :- THE GIFT OF MR. SAMUEL NOBLE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OF TAUNTON, TO THE BAPTIST MEETING OF THAT PLACE. 1744/5 NOTE.-^^ 1777 Mrs. Jane Noble added to the above a pair of silver candlesticks, with snuffers and dish. These were sold many years ago, according to an entry in the minute book in custody of Mr. William Blake, of South Petherton.-G. E. E. THE ATKINS " GIFT. Paten (I), silver, 9 inches diameter. Date letter worn. Inscription :- THE GIFT OF MISS ANN ATKINS, OF TAUNTON, UNTO THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHAPEL IN MARY STREET, IN THAT TOWN, TO BE USED AT THE SACRAMENT Pricked on the upper rim of paten are the letters and date *- F.I= E On the under side of the rim are the letters and date :- M - F In the chapel, suspended from the ceiling, is a fine brass candelabrum for 24 lights. Inscription on the base :- NATHANIEL WEBB REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials Births and Baptisnls Burials

147 TOPOGRAPHY. MuvcR. p U. H., g Nov., Present chapel was formerly the refectory of Tavistock Abbey ; its free use granted by the Earl of Bedford. though the Earl. as patron. bad removed Thomas Larkham. in Oct., from S. Eustachius' Church. Tavistock. Thomas Larltham. M.A. William Pearse Henry Flamanck Jacob Sandercocl~ Peter Jillard Samuel Merivale Bernard Dowdell Theophilus Edwards William Evans Thomas May Henry Solly John Knowles Montgomery John Commins George Heap Stanley, B.A. James Taplin David Griffith Touzeau Parris William Sunderland Smith Leonard Hiinges John Davies. M.A. Lindsey Thomas Badcock John Barron..

148 Mugs (2), silver, 39 inches tall; each one handle. letter nearly effaced. Initials on bottom :- M. F. Believed to be the gift of the Flamanck family. Patens (2), pewter, 9% inches diameter, plain. Date REGISTERS. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., 1825, p Muvch, 1825, p C. F., 1869, p. 43 (has engraving of chapel). Alford's Abbots of Tavistock, 1891, pp. 296, 3 I I, 345. Built First chapel probably built late in 17th century. School-house built TENTERDEN. PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL. Joseph Osborn 1690?-l699? John Hammond here 1715 (Nicholas Warren here 1726?) Thomas Meremoth Cornelius Mancock, M.A., Lawrence Holden Edward Talbot Robert Cooper Dendy George Walter Lewin Felix Taylor, B.A Q

149 Chalice (I), silver ; a magnificently-worked posset pot or caudle cup, 3$ inches tall. London date letter, Faintly-pricked inscription :- T. A. + A. Probably Andrew (d. 1679) and Anne Tucker. Chalice (I), silver, a somewhat similar but slightly smaller caudle cup, g+ inches tall. London date letter, No inscription, but probably from same source as above. Patens (z), electro, 10 inches diameter, beaded rim. In- scription on each :- PRESENTED TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL OF TENTERDEN, I MAY, 1877, BY H [ENRY] P [EACH] BUCKLER. Flagon (I), electro, 142 inches tall, plain, beak, handle, lid. No inscription, but gift of Robert XIilligan Shipman. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials M. R., 1822, p C. R., 1844, p Old Tentevden, J. E. Mace, 1891, p. 7. L. P. A., p. 27. Noah Jones... Thomas Stewart... George White.,, Joseph Marriott... Richard Cooke James Taylor ".. Brooke Herford, D.D Lindsey Taplin, M.A.... James Black, M.A Abram Birtles Camm Edward Parry, B.A M. R., 1824., P Inq., 30 Dec., Inq., 10 April, C. F., 1869, p Ofienilzg of CJzuvclz (small duo.), reprinted from the Tod~~tovll'en and Hebden Bridge Advertisev, 10 April, Recovd, p NOTE.-The foundation stone of this magnificent church, designed by Mr. John Gibson, of Westminster, was laid on 23 Dec., 1865, by Mr. Samuel Fielden, after a short religious service conducted by Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. The inscription, deeply cut on a massive brass plate, runs :-" THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT BY SAMUEL, JOHN, AND JOSHUA FIELDEN, OF TOD- MORDEN, FOR THE WORSHIP OF THE ONLY TRUE GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." IN THE FAITH TFODMORDEN CHURCH. Opened 7 April, 1869 ; preacher, William Gasltell, M.A. First chapel opened 6 June, 1824 ; Preachers, Nathaniel Phillips, D.D., morn. ; William Stevens, afternoon ; and George Harris, evening. Date of Congregation, c Date of Congregation, Opened 17 April, 1892 ; Preacher, William Copeland Bowie. William Henry Eastlake Robert Scammell Clarke Frank Shaw

150 William Robinson James Shaw Priestley Prime TOPOGRAPHY, Inq., 23 April, TRO WBR1DGE.-CONIGRE CHAPEL. Opened I Oct., 1857 ; preachers, William James, morning ; Edwin Chapman, afternoon ; Philip Pearsall Carpenter, B.A., evening. First Chapel built ante John Lawes John Davisson 'hornas Lucas William Waldron.S Thomas Twining S Daniel J ones William Jones John Gisburne Richard Wright Samuel Martin John Hardy Felstead Ed~vard Potter Hall Robert Henry Underwood Bloor, B.A Cups (4). sil", date letter, inches tall, bell, stem, foot. London Patens (2), electro, g inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), electro, g* inches tall, handle, lid, beak. TROWBRIDGE. CONIGRE CHAPEL. BRASS. ALMS DISH. " And the woman said,.the serpent beguiled me,, and I did eat "-Genesis iii, I:

151 This congregation owns a fine brass alms dish, 18 inches diameter. In centre is a representation of the temptation, Adam and Eve standing on either side of the tree, round the trunk of which is coiled' the serpent. I have no ndte as to the origin of this dish.-g. E. E. REGISTER. Births Mzcvch, p. 69. C. R., I 855, cover of July issue. C. U., 1865, p C. L., 6 April, Opened I Nov., 1752; preacher, Thomas Walker, M.A. Restored and re-opened 21 Dec., 1882 ; preacher, Charles Hargrove, M.A. First Chapel opened 29 August, 1697 ; preacher, Oliver Heywood. Joshua Kirby Peter Naylor John Holdsworth, Assistmzt - Joshua Sagar Joseph Sagar? Isaac Hawkins before Thomas Hatfield, Assistnttt John Aldred William Turner Thomas Johnstone Patrick Cannon John Cameron Edward Higginson Goodwyn Rarmby IS Andrew Chalmers

152 Cups (2), pewter, 8% inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Patens (2), pewter, 8 inches diameter, 2% inches tall, foot. Flagon (I), pewter, 14 inches tall, beak, lid, spout. Bought for 4 14s. 6d. on 3 Nov., REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p Miall, p Inq., 20 Sept., WALMSLEY. Date of Congregation, alzte Opened James Milne... Robert Hesketh... Samuel? Waterhouse... John Helme..... John Aspinall John Taylor Thomas [Francis] Davies... Thornas Jones... Noah Jones Williarn Probert Joseph Hardinge Matthews Edward Allen... M. S. C., p C R*, 1834, P. 738s., Nightingale, vol. 3, 1892, p. 4. Becoud, p WALSALL-STAFFORD STREET. Opened g Nov., 1827 ; preacher, James Scott. First Chapel destroyed by rioters Second Chapel built John Godley James Warner some years prior to death, 1741 John Dobson John Winter -- a.. David Jones Noah Jones Ebenezer Beasley Benjamin Davis Thomas Moore Thomas Bowen Abraham Manley Thomas Bowen William McKea.11, James Cauty Smith Edward Myers, F.G.S John Omer Squier Chq5el closed a...s. - \Villiam Wynn Robinson ~ Peter Dean REGISTERS. Births and Baptisms The Scott hlss., in custody of Stourbridge Presbyterian Congregation. Histovy of Wnlsnll, Pearce, M. S. C., p Monthly Refiositovy, 1828, p. 67. A Histovy of Bridgt Stvce2 CIzag5e1, IValsnlZ, Alfred Willis, I 893, pp. 2, 3, 7, 8. Scedsowev, 1894, p. 34.

153 Opened 29 Sept., 1830 ; preacher, Robert Aspland. First Chapel opened Feb., 1828; preacher, John Mitchelson. Henry Squire James Cowdan Wallace - John Cropper, M.A.... William Smith, F.L.S. Alexander MacNamee Walker David Griffith,.. Maxwell Davidson Charles Case Nutter John Briggs Lloyd John Dale Ckakek closed (re-opened 10 JZ~IJE, 1683) Edwin John Wilkins. M.R.,1830,~.86g. MZGYC~, P Iq., 16 June, Opened 8 October, 1704; preacher, Rev. Dr. Cotton. John Buckler... - Cornpton~outh,B.D George Boucher Samuel Bates Williain Lush.. ' Nathanael Andrews Thomas Tremlett Theophilus Browne, M.A. Griffith Roberts... Benjamin Waterhouse S ".,. S.. James Bayley John Mitchelson a.. S.. John Lettis Short a.. Edmund Squire Patrick Cannon.. S.. John Owen...*. S., Thomas Jones Read Thomas Cooper.... Supplies S.. a.. Robert Harris Supklies... James Taplin S.. John Joseph George 8. S.. Henry Austin Chajel sokd.... W.... a.. THE LANGLEY " GIFT. r Mugs (2), silver, inches tall, one handle,. lid. London 2% date letter, Patens (2), silver, g& inches diameter, beaded rim. London date letter, I Flagon (I), silver, 12 inches tall, handle, beak, and lid, with pine-apple knob. London date letter, All the five pieces are marked with the coat of arms and crest of Mr. John Taylor, who gave them to the congregation on 2 May, No~~.-This service of plate is deposited with the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, Essex Hall, London, W.C., and is for the present Zcfrt to Robert Spears (for the use of the Highgate Hill congregation), in whose house I saw all the pieces.-g. E. E... REGISTERS. Births and Baptisms

154 Mztvch, p. 86. Histovy of Wnrmilzstev, John J. Daniel, 1879, p Date of License, 30 Sept., 1672 : "A Roonze' or Roonzcs i~z the Coztrt-lzozise of Wariwgto~t." Opened First Chapel opened Robert Yates Samuel Yates ?-1679? Peter Aspinwall ? Charles Owen, D.D John Seddon William Enfield, LL.D Joseph Bealey William Broadbent FIugh Hutton, M.A Edward Robinson Dimmock Francis Bishop....* Thomas Hinclts, E.A., F.R.S Philip Pearsall Carpenter, B.A., Ph.D James Nixon Porter ' Henry Woods Pei-ris Richard Pilcher, B.A Priestley Prime...., s Frank Kerry Freeston William Hamilton Drummond, B.A Cup (I), silver, 10 inches tall, very thin bowl, fine stem. London date letter, Inscribed on bowl- THE GIVER,.G. B. A GIFT TO YE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS CHA.PPELL, WARRINGTON. 4 Cup (I), silver, gb inches tall, bowl thin and worn, fine stem. Date letter and marks much worn and indistinct, but pattern and workmanship almost identical with the other. Inscribed on bowl- THE GIVER, J. B. Plates (z), pewter, quite plain, 9% inches diameter. neath the edge of each, D. C. REGISTERS. Births and Baptisms , nd. S. C., p C. R., 1842, pp. 122, 525. C. R., 1845, P LivevPool Daily Post, 29 May, Inp., g June, Nightingale, vol. 4, 1892, p L. U. A., p, 124. Recovd, p WARWICK.-HIGH STREET. Under- Built 1780 on land given by Lord Warwick in exchange for that on which the original chapel stood. Restored and re-opened 28 June, 1863 ; preacher, John William Lake. John Wilson Joseph Carpenter before James Kettle....., Benjamin Kingsbury ? William Field Henry Ashton Meeson, M.D Thomas Lethbridge Marshal

155 Daniel Davies Jeremy, M.A Percy Bakewell, B.A John Willlam Lake Benjamin Kirkman Gray REGISTERS. Births and Baptisms An Accou~zzt of the Town and Cnstk of Warwick, William Field, 1815, pp M.R., 1817, p. 6. Sibree, p Iq., I I July, I 863. NoTE.-T~~ volumes given to the trustees of this Chapel by the family of the late William Field contain this bookplate :- / MINISTER'S LIBRARY. -1 HIGH STREET CHAPEL, WARWICK. This Book, formerly in the Library of the Rev. W. FIELD (the Minister of the above-named Chapel from the year 1789 to 1843)~ was, after his death, presented by his family, with g29 other volumes, to the Trustees of the Chapel, whose property it is in future to remain, for the use of the Minister, for the time being, of the Chapel. LEAM, Jaltzcavy xst, 1852., Built Original one burnt by rioters, 1715 SamuelTaylor -1695, Richard Latham Richard Lathropp S Thomas Fisher Richard Lathropp, 2nd time Thomas Holland Philip Holland (son) o~d. here Thomas Harrop John Houghton William Hazlitt, M.A James Whitehead Thomas Toller Thomas William Jenkyns, D.D J. F. Mandend K 842 Edward Sadler., George Smith Ap., 1874 NOTE.-After 1874 no minister, chapel and endowments dealt with by Charity Commissioners ; are now (1896) in hands of trustees sanctioned by Commissioners.-G. E. E. REGISTER. Baptisms I M. R., 1820, p History of Wem, Rev. Sam. Garbet, A.M., 1818, p WEST BROMWIC1EI.-LODGE ROAD. Opened 26 April, 1875 ; preacher, Robert Rodolph Suffield. John Harrison Edward William Lummis, B.A Inq., I May, NoT,E.-For succession of ministers in the Old Meeting, West Bromwich, see M.R., 1817, p. 6.

156 Built Samuel Brook.", before Isaac Worthington a Joseph Duckenfield 1702?,-bef Isaac Tholnpson John Xeddid Isaac Barker..., William Lee Mrilliam Wood, M.D Thomas Watson James Rutherford S Joseph Ashton Joseph Metley., Closed David Davis, B.A Arthur Lupton, B.A Marmaduke Charles Frankland James Cooper.., John Owen, William Stoddart, B.A Francis Haydn Willian~s Chalice (I), silver, 5% inches tall, plain bell, stem, foot. London date letter, Inscription on bell, above a band which runs round the middle of bell, and through the two handles :- THE GIFT OF MR. LEO. TVILDB, FOR ye USE OF YE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN WHITEY. FEB. 14, Patens (2), silver, g inches diameter, plain. London date letter, Inscription :-- FOR THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN WHITBY. YE I MAY, A large white linen cloth, on which is worked, in silk, this inscription :- THE GIFT OF MR. LEONARD WILDE TO THE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS OF WHITBY. FEB. 14, Another white linen cloth, inscribed in ink :- FLOWERGATE OLD CHAPEL. MINISTER, THE REV. J. OWEN, IN MEMORY OF JANE ANDERSON. MAY, F. A. The carved oak chair by Communion Table bears the date of I 690. A communication concerning the plate, &C., will be found in Wtzitby Times, 17 June, REGISTERS, I.. Births and Baptisms Marriages and Burials TO~BGRAPMY. History of Wlzitby, Rev. Geo. Young, 1817, vol. ii, p k?. S. C., p Dickc~zsola's Registev, p. 48. Minll, p WHITCHURCH, SALOP.-DODINGTON Date of Congregation, Re-built 1717 First chapel in Dodington built i707 ; destroyed by rioters Broad Oak Chapel registered c

157 , Philip Henry, M.A. Samuel Benion, M.D... Robert Pell David Benion Thomas Colthurst John? King Ebenezer Keay John Jones 7 Thomas Rees Henry Procter Thomas Jenkins David William Jones Joseph Marriott John Philp Richard Shawcross An old pewter set, now lost. One almsdish, pewter, plain, 15 inches diameter. Inscription in centre :- THIS ANCIENT ALMSDISH, USED IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL, DODIKGTON, LOST IN 1843, WAS RECOVERED, AND GIVEN TO THE TRUSTEES, FOR USE IN THE CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR, WHITCHURCH, BY THE REV. GEORGE EYRE EVANS This dish formed a portion (No. 418) of the collection of pewter vessels lent to the Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition, in connection with the Church Congress, Shrewsbury, MEMORIAL BRASSES. The 23 brasses-covering, in 41 lives, a period of 164 years, from Thomas Yate, born 1672, to Mrs. Benyon, died which were on the walls of this chapel, were carefully removed, and placed on the north and south walls of the Church of The Saviour, Highgate, Whitchurch, of which I am minister, in 1894 and A full account of them will be found in the Church Chro~zicle (No. 35) for Feb., 1896, and in the Trn~zsnctions of the JMonu~nental Brass Society, No. 6, new series, Jan., NOTE.-Regular worship ceased in this chapel in 1844 On g Dec., 1891, the building was sold by public auction-i being present-for 161, to Mr. John A. Roberts, who had for some time used it as his school-house. Proceeds were handed over to the British and Foreign School Society, by Mr. J. H. Warburton Lee, solicitor, of Broad Oak.-G, E. a. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms ]Baptisms I Births and Burials MSS.-The account of the congregation written by Thomas Jenkins, its minister, , in vol. iii of above-noted registers. Exnwsion from Sidnzoutiz to Chester, Rev. Edmund Butcher, 1805, p M. R., 1819, p M. R., 1824, p M. R., 1825, p M. R., 1827, p C.R., 1820, p Life of PJzilz$ Henry, M.A., by Matthew Henry, V.D.M., edited by J. B. Williams, F.S.A., Chnrity Co~nzissione~s' Report, I 83 I. Charity Conzmissioners' Order, I 866. Diaries and Letters of PiziZ$ Henry, M.A., edited by Rev. Matthew Henry Lee, &$.A., Whif~hzt~rciz of Long Ago, Geo. Eyre Evans, Seedsoztjer, 'I 8gd., pp. 87, 107, I I 8, 137, 152.

158 &l, ' WHITCHURCH, SALOP.--CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR. Date of Congregation, January, Services held in Town Hall from 7 Jan. to 5 Aug., Church opened 7 August, 1877 ; preacher, Baldwin Brown, B.A. School-house opened 28 January, All the site in Highgate was bought for 540 by Mr. John Gresty and Martha Peninnah Bancroft, his wife, and by them given, with the two cottages thereon, to the congregation ; the trust deed being dated 2 January, 1893, and declaring that the said Clzzbrch, and agy futzl~e chzt~ch evected 092 this Ju~zd, shall be called or know@ by the name of the Chwvch of the Saviouv ; and that no Mifzister of the Church or member of the co?zgvegation assembling in said Chz~rch shall be ~equired to subscvibe ov nsse~zt to my tjzeozogica1 creed. TVilliam Carey Walters Jan., 1877-Dec., 1879 Frederick Sydney Morris.. Jan.-Dec., 1880 J ames Wilson, Sz.~$ply Jan.-Mar., 1881 Sz~pplies April-Oct., 1881 ~ Alfred Lancaster. Oct., 1881-Oct., 1882 Supjdies Nov., 1882-Apr., 1883 Walter Reynolds, B.A. Apr., 1883-May, 1884 Sz~pplies June, 1884-Aug., 1885 Gzrild of tlze Good Sheplzevd in ckavge Jan., 1888-Sept., Supplies May, Owen James Jones Aug., 1885-Dec., 1887 George Eyre Evans June, Apr., A modern electro set, consisting of cup, paten, flagon and,almsdish, all given in 1877 by Mrs. John Gresty. The large pewter almsdish, for which see p. 256.

159 REGISTERS, Ifz cztstody of the f~zi~~ister fov the time being. Marriages Baptisms S TVhitchztrch of Lozzg Ago, Geo. Eyre Evans, The Record Book, in custody of the minister for time being. Date of Congregation, Opened 18 December, 1831 ; preachers, John Kentish, a.m., and Samuel Bache, p.m. First chapel in John Street conveyed 20 Oct., 1701 ; Unitarians seceded 1817 ; building is now consecrated as S. Michael's. John Stubbs. Philip Holland S John Cole.. S.. a - a.. Samuel Griffiths ' Nicholas Shattock a.. S.. John Small. m. +.. John. Steward.. SXOW HILL. Su$pZies a.. Mr. Joseph Pearson, trustee, a.m. ; ministers, p.m. Stephenson Hunter.. Thomas Hugh Marshall Scott, M.A. Charles Frederick Biss Edward Myers, F.G.S. S.. William Agar.*. S neighbouring

160 William Birks Closed George Henry Smith, Leopold George Harris Crook ' Midland Chvistiaqt U1zio1.t in cha~fge Chalice (I), electro, 6 inches tall, bell,.stem, foot, handles. Paten (I), electro, 10 inches diameter. Flagon (I), electro, 12 inches tall, handle, lid, beak. REGISTERS. Births and Baptisms M. S. C., p M. R., 1817, pp. 494, &c. M. R., 1818, p M. R., 1827, p M. R., 1830, p M. R., 1831, p U. H., 2 Dec., seed so we^, 1895, p. 48. Date of congregation, 1642 Opened 15 Oct., 1845 ; preacher, John Gooch Robberds. First Chapel built about JVilliam Bridge John Oxenbridge, M.A., Assistnfzt Robert Cake, John Tillinghast, 7! Job Tookie, Job Tookie, Colleagtie William Sheldrick (prenclzer 1671)~ pastor YARMOUTH. MIDDLEGATE STREET. I 638.

161 James Hannot (Assislarzt 1679.). Pastor Samuel Wright. A ssista~tt Eliezer Birch Daniel Smith. Assistatzt ~ohn Broolt Tliolnas Tookie. A ssista~zt Peter Goodwin Henry Oasland, Assistant Kichard Frost,., Ralph Millner Robert Emms, Assistcrnt John Whiteside,,, John Whiteside George Walker, F. R.S., Assistafzt John Matthew Beynon,,, John Matthew Beynon George Cadogan Morgan Michael Maurice Thomas Martin John Burnett Henry Robert Eowles. Voluntavy As- ' sista. rtt YYtnfzy yea= " befo~ e. his death. I Jmzztary H- M- Bowles. Assistant I 830 Henry Squire Samuel Robinson Thomas Hugh Marshal1 Scott, M Richard Shelley Timothy Arthur Peaton..l John Joseph Marten William Stephens Herbert Pole, B.A William Rodger Srnyth. Sz@@ly Jan.-June PLATE. Beaker (I). silver. 6% inches tall. 3% inches diameter of mouth ; richly chased floral design. Date letter. worn. but possibly London Inscription on base l[ H

162 Beaker (I). silver. 62 inches tall. 3% inches diameter of mouth; richly chased design. of different pattern to above. Date letter worn. Inscription on sides G E Beaker (I). silver. 6% inches tall. plain. London date letter Inscription just below rim- M S + A Beaker (I). silver. 63 inches tall. plain. London date letter Inscription- \V + B Beaker (I). silver. 69 inches tall. plain. London date letter I Inscription- T + L Beaker (I). silver. 69 inches tall. plain. Date letter worn. Inscription- JOHN THE GIFT OF ARNOLD AND MARGARETT. HIS WIFE. I saw all these six beakers. at Yarmouth. in custody of Mr. John Leach. a trustee of the Church. on 23 Oct., 18g+.--~. E. E. Patens (2). pewter. plain. 11 inches diameter. REGISTERS. I. Baptisms I I1 Baptisms Burials I TOPOGRAPHY. M R., p. 66. M. R., pp Ifzq., 24 May Browne. p Opened 8 Nov., 1809 ; Preachers. Edmund Butcher. a.m. ; Thomas Howe. p.m. Restored and re-opened 18 May ; Preacher. Ambrose Nichols Blatchford. B.A. First chapel deed dated 30 May MINISTERS.. Edward Bartlett John ~ilni Robert Glass John Ward..* Samuel Thomas Samuel Perrott Theophilus Lobb, M.D D.D ** S.. David Graham James Marshal John Howel Closed.. - e Samuel Fawcett Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D John Owen David Hughes John Jenkins, M.A John Robberds, B.A Henry Solly John George Teggin Alexander MacNamee Walker Frederick Rowland Young Charles Matthews John Ellis William Matthews Thomas Ekyn Smyth, B.A Supplies a.. Abram Lunn Westenz Unzo~z i ~ charge z Thomas Bennett Broadrick Samuel Sidaway Brettell? M.A. 1 Missioaaries' PLATE. Cup (I). silver. 89 inches tall. bell. foot. stem. London date letter I Paten (I). silver. 5; foot. Same date. inches diameter. 2 inches tall. stem.

163 Flagon (I), silver, 8 inches tall, handle, beak, and lid, with ivory knob. Same date letter. All vessels have, in a gloryt. IHS I saw these in custody of Mr. Bunce, at Yeovil, on I I Aug., REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms 1833 Deaths M. S. C., p AT. R., 1830, p W~ch, p. 2 I I. Ifzq., 13 Dec., A Sketch of the Town of Yeovil, Daniel Vicery, 1856, p. 41. Date of Congregation, Opened April, Ralph Ward.. Noah Ward, Assista~zt.. Thomas Colton, M.D..,- Thomas Baxter, Assistartt.. John Hotham, 7,.... John Hotham.. a John Brook, co-pastoy.*. John Root, j 9.-. Newcome Cappe *.. Charles Wellbeloved, Assistn~tt.. Charles Wellbeloved George Vance Smith, EA., PhD., D.D. S.. W.. a.. Charles Henry Wellbeloved Frederick Sydney Morris William Mellor Chalices (2), silver, 4 inches tall, 46 inches wide, bell, foot. London date letter Inscription on bell, between handles- Patens (2), plain, shallow, with ribbed rim. Flagon (I), silver, 144 inches tall, fluted body, neck, lid, handle, beak. London date letter I. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Burials M. S. C., p C. R., 1861, p Miall, p Memorialsof St. Savioztrgate, Yovk, John Menrick, M.A., F.S.A., I 869. C. F., 1870, p. 89. C. L,, 8 June, 1889.

164 SCOTLAND. Date of Congregation Opened g Aug., 1840; preachers. George Harris. a.m., Henry Montgomery. LL.D., p.m. MINISTEWS. John Esdaile John Cropper. M.A. S.. John Henry Hope William Cochrane. Charles Frederick Smith David Griffith John Stephen S.. \Villiarn Sunderland Smith Alexander Gordon, M.A. William Sharman Henry Williamson. illo~ztlzly Szijbly John Cdorge Slater ".. William Bennett David Scott.. a George Thornas Walters Alexander Webster Williarn Birks Alexander Mrebster, 29zd tiqnc.... TOPOGRAPHY. C. R., p. 338.

165 Date of present Congregation, Opened 20 Nov., 1870 ; preacher, Robert Spears. First met in Exchange Hall. MINISTER. Henry Williamson I~tp., 19 March and 26 Nov., NOTE.-It is certain that the present congregation is in direct succession of the earlier Unitarian cause in Dundee, the ministers of which were- Thomas Fyshe Palmer. I Robert MilIar, Elder ? William Smith ? Henry Clarke... Nov., David G.- Coghill ? after whose escapade (which killed the project of a chapel, for which there is a subscription list extant, headed by Lord Halyburton) there was no public worship; yet a number of the members, amongst whom was Mr. George Speed-who, upwards of go years of age, was present at the opening services of the present chapel-kept together, and there certainly was private worship in David G. Coghill 'must not be confused with his contemporary, Donald M. R. Coghill. For interesting details, see Dict. Nut. Biog., for Thomas Fyshe Palmer. Date of Congregation, Opened 18 Oct., 1835 ; preacher, George Narris. School-room, Broughton, 1776 ; School-room, Wright's Houses, 1777 ; School-room, Earber's Hall, Chapel, Skinners' Hall, engaged Cllapel in Young Street, 'engaged Chapel, Carrubber's Close, opened 14 Sept., 1823 ; Preacher, William Johnson Fox. 0.. James Purves a.. Lay Elders S.. Thomas South.cvood Smith, M.D. Patrick Cannon a.. Thomas Crompton Holland S.. John Omer Squier William Johnstone Bakewell Bartholomew Teeling Stannus Robert Edward Barnes Maclellan... George Harris S.. Richard Shaen, I'v1.A.. < John Crawfurd \Voods, B.A. John Gordon... h.. Robert Blackley Drummond, &.A. Cups (2), copper, silvered, g inches tall, bell with plain shield, stem, knop, foot. Patens (2), pewter, 9% inches diameter, ornamental border. Origin unknown, but probably the vessels used by James Purves. Extract from n~in~zte book, under date 3 March, 1798: The adniinistration of that ordinance [Lord's Supper] did not exclusively belong to the pastor of a church, but might and should be attended to by a society of Christians, tho' deprived of that office-bearer. The ordinance of the Lord's Supper, therefore, was administered on the 1st sabbath of every liionth by one or other of the four aforementioned members." M. R., 1812, p M. R., 18x3, p M. R., 1814, p M. R., 1816, p M. R., 1823, pp. 181, f. E., 1824, p. 624.

166 C. R., 1835, p C. R., 1836, p Beavd, p Dict. Nat. Biog. (James Purves). GLASGOW.-ST. VINCENT STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened 13 April, 1856 ; preacher, James Martineau, D.D. Chapel, Union Place, opened 15 Nov., 1812; Preacher, James Yates, M.A. e Benjamin Spencer, M.D * e 1794-J~ly William Christie a Lay Preaclzers James Yates, M.A Benjamin Mardon, M.A George Harris John Taylor John Boucher Charles Clarke Henry Williarn Crosskey, LLD John Page Hopps Frank Walters Albert Lazenby M. R., 1811, p M. R., 1812, pp. 51, 271, 728. M. R., 1817, p Beavd, p. I 16. C. R., 1856, p Inq., 22 May, Inq., 13 Feb., Inq., 19 April, C. L., 12 Jan., C~osskey's LiJe and Work, R. A. Armstrong, B.A., 1895, PP* GLASGOW.-SOUTH ST. MUNGO STREET. Date of Congregation, Opened g March, 1876 ; preacher, John Page Hopps. First worshipped in Calton Old Burgh Hall William Mitchell S.. Alexander Webster Joseph Taylor William Lorimer Walker George Pegler, B.A Ifzq., 18 March, 1876.

167 Flagons (3), pewter, 11 inches tall, weight 5 lbs., lid, handle, no beak. Collecting spoons (3), copper, 72 inches long, 6 inches wide, 12 inches deep, polished wood handles ; total length 455 inches. All these vessels and spoons I saw at Antrim on the 23rd August, G. E. E. Disciple, 1881, p. 12. Disciple, 1883, p. 38. Histovicat Glenlzings, W. S. Smith, 1888, pp Memories of '98, W. S. Smith, Date of Congregation, 1697 Meeting-house built First Meeting-house was at Ballyclander. William Smith Robert Smith James Patterson Josiah Ker David Whyte John Porter Joseph Henry Bibby BALLYCARRY.-PRESBYTERIAN MEETING HOUSE. Date of Congregation, Kobert Cunningham James Cobham John Bankhead William Glendy Thomas O'Gorman Moore Getty NOTE.-Edward Brice, M.A., is sometimes wrongly said to have been first nonconforming minister here. On 29 Dec., 1613, he was deposed at Glasgow. The first known preferment held by him in Ireland was the prebend of Kilroot, September, 1619, which he held till He held also the cure of Ballycarry, but there was no church for him to preach in till Doubtless he was a theoretical Presbyterian, but in Ireland he was not one in practice, though silenced in 1636 for nonconformity. The Presbyterian congregation begins in Cups (6), silver, 73 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. Inscription- THE GIFT OF MARRIOTT DALWAY, ESQ., OF BELLAHILL, TO THE OLD PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION OF BROADISLAND, IN CONNECTION WITH THE REMONSTRANT SYNOD OF ULSTER. I 832. NOTE.-Under Marriott Dalway's forefathers the occupants of Red Hall and Castle Dobbs held as tenants. The old silver cups and the silver christening bason are in the hands of the congregation which seceded during William Glendy's ministry, at the time of the Remonstrant separation. The first minister of the seceding congregation was John Stuart. The inscription on the cups is- THE GIFT OF CAPTAIN EDWARD BRICE. They also bear the Brice arms with motto-" Do well, doubt not." The christening bason is inscribed on rim- THE GIFT OF ARCHIBALD EDMONSTONE, ESQ., OF THIS CHRISTENING BASON TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION OF BROADISLAND. On the bottom of the bowl are the Edmonstone arm3 and augct Hononm." - I saw all this plate at Ballycarry on 22 August, G. E. E. C. U,, 1863, Articles by Classon Porter. Diet. Nat. Biog., Edward Brice. Vi~ius

168 BALLY CLARE.-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Date of Congregation, Opened 29 Oct., * Gilbert Simpson... Robert Patton... Thomas Tuft Thomas Wilson John Marshal... Futt Marshal William Heron John Hall William Fielding BAELY F1EMLHN.-REMONSTRANT CONGREGATION. Date of Congregation, Meeting-house built William Hugh Doherty Alexander Orr James Cooper James McFerran Charles Thrift I'q., 20 Nov., Date of Congregation, George Hill Joseph McFadden William Napier David Matts

169 BANBRIDGE.-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Date of Congregation, Samuel Young Archibald Maclaine..,...,.. Henry Jackson Nathaniel Shaw James Davies John Montgomery.., Francis McCammon Charles Henry Osler Andrew Breakey Hamilton, M.A., LL.B BELFAST. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PULPIT BANDON. Nicodenlus Harding Millet James Clugston William Hazlitt, M.A Edward King William Hunter Beard, p Opened I June, Original meeting-house believed to have been built about 1668 in North Street; the next about 1695 on present site.

170 John Baird. Anthony Shaw Read William Keyes Patrick Adair John McBride v James Kirkpatrick, M.D.. Thomas Milling, Assistalzt.. Samuel Haliday, M.A. Thomas Drennan, M.A. Andrew Miller, M.A., A ssistafzt Clotworthy Brown 9, James Mackay.. John Beatty, Assista~zt James Crombie, D.D.,.. William Bruce, D.D. William Bruce, A.B., John Scott Porter Alexander Gordon, M.A. James Kirk Pike Douglas Walmsley, B.A circa ? I745?-I ? PLATE, &c. EXTRACTS FROM ANNALS OF THE CONGREGATION James Stewart presented a silver Communion cup. This is g$ inches tall, and is inscribed- THE GIFT OF JAMES STEWART TO THE MEETING-HOUSE OF BELFAST Thomas Craford presented a silver Communion cup to the congregation. This is g* inches tall, and is inscribed- DONUM THO. CRAFORD CCETUI PRESBYTER DE BELFAST. I 698. I 712.-Three silver cups brought from Dublin Communion 'linen, presented by Mrs. Michael Andrews $ Q S J", 8 ^3: F9 t: 2 S m

171 1Q4.-Six new flagons introduced at Communion. The seven silver cups are here pictured. In addition to the Stewart and Craford inscriptions, a third cup has engraved upon it the words "Iames Martin." The remaining four cups have no inscriptions, and.the date letters on all are more or less worn. There are also 6 pewter patens, g inches in diameter, and 6 modern electro flagons. A1msdishes.-These two plated dishes are also here pictured. One is inscribed- JOHN HESELTON'S GIFT TO ALL THE MEETING-HOUSES BELFAST Old Psalm Book.-Here is also pictured the copy of The Psalms of David in Meeter," on the fly-leaf of which is written- DAVID SMITH'S GIFT 1705 The covers are of tortoiseshell, silver mounted. The Pulpit.-Here is also pictured the pulpit, which cost 27 18s. 4d., and was presented by the ladys of Belfast," irrespective of creed. In this pulpit, in 1789, John Wesley preached. On p. 21 of Historic Memorials we read that he would have preached a second time, but on the first occasion the crowd swarmed all over the building, and in the commotion some unconverted hearer managed to abstract the silver rim and clasp from the pulpit Bible, so the Trustees declined to grant their Meeting-house again to the great evangelist." Collection Plates.-The 6 wooden plates are inscribed- PRESENTED BY F. D. WARD, J.P. I 880. I saw this plate and all the other articles in Belfast on 23 August, G. E. E. C. U., 1862, p Disciple, 1883, pp. 82, 200. Historic Memoriats of the Fivst Presbyterian Church of Belfast, Belfast, 1887.

172 BELFAST.-ALL SOULS' CHURCH, (Formerly the second Congvegation.) Date of Congregation, Opened 11 Oct., 1896; preacher, Joseph Wood. Original Meeting-house in Rosemary Street built Nept Meeting-house in Rosemary Street built 1790, and last service held in it 21 June, 1896 ; preacher, Edgar Innes Fripp, B.A. James Kirkpatrick, M.D.... Gilbert Kennedy, M.A James Bryson, M.A.... Patrick Vance William Hamilton Drummond, D.D., M.K.I.A.... William Dalzell Huey McEwan... John Porter James Christopher Street Edgar Innes Fripp, B.A.... That used in First Presbyterian, Rosemary Street. TOPOGRAPHY, Disciple, 1883, p. I 14. Inq., 12 March, Chzcrc1z Kale~zdar, 1896, various months. Irtq., 24 Oct., Opened Originally called " Bethbirei; " bought from the Methodists; opened 5 Jan., Re-built William Joseph Blakely David Maginnis John Jellie Robert John Orr, M.A Alexander Ashworth Cups (2), electro, 8 inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot, Patens (2), electro, g inches diameter. Flagons (2), electro, 104 inches tall. Inscription- PRESENTED JOHN JELLIE BY THE REV. TO THE YORK STREET NONSUBSCRIBING CONGREGATION, Nov., ; Disciple, 1883, p. I 15. Date of Congregation, Opened 3 Jan., 1875 ; preacher, David Magiunis. David Thompson. ' John James Wright WaIter Reynolds, B.A William Holmshaw John Basil Barnhill Williain Jenkin Davies Inq., g Jan., Inq., 14 Nov., 1896, " Hibernicus." Date of Congregation, r 646. Meeting-house built about 1668.'

173 Patrick Adair John Campbell. William Taylor John Lewson.. Thomas Alexander James Mulligan James McDowell Robert Hall John Jellie Frederic Thomas C. U,, 1865, various pages. Date of Congregation, Church built James Malcolm James Nixon Porter... William John Smyth Leonard Hunges Timothy Arthur Peaton David Thompson Closed Thomas Smyth On 22 Aug., 1892, I visited this Church, and the only vessels I saw or heard of were- Patens (2), pewter, plain. Flagon (I), pewter, beak, lid, and handle. No inscriptions.-g. E. E. C, U., 1863, p CL0MMEL.-PRESBYTERIAN MEETING-HOUSE. Built William Cock J-- Shaw Thomas Palmer Card William Jackson John Mears James MacKay J- Patten William Campbell, D.D. James Worral, B.A. William Crozier, M.A. James Orr Sufiflies Beard, p CL0UGH.-NONSUBSCRIBING PRESBYTERIAN. Opened g July, Thomas Maxwell Hugh Ramsay Hugh Williamson John Williamson Robert Porter 1773-r815 William Campbell David Watson, M.A William Napier On 19 ~ugust, 1892, I walked from Dundrum to this Meeting-house and here saw- Cups (2), pewter, g inches tall, plain, bell, stem, foot.

174 Paten (I), pewter, 12 inches diameter, plain. Flagon (I), pewter, 13 inches tall, handle, beak,' lid. No inscriptions.-g. E. E. % Inp., 4 Feb., Date of Congregation, William Hugh Doherty John Orr I Thomas Dunkerley, B.A Date of Congregation, Built Brinkley Samuel Lowthion - Tweed...,. Thomas Cuthbert David Hutchinson Kiddell.. Samuel Perrott - Jeffries.., Nathaniel Shaw.. Thomas Dix Hincks, LL.D. J- Willis, M.D..." William Moore William Hinclts.,. John Jillard Hort Samuel Hans Sloane, LL.D, Thomas Hincks, B.A..." William Whitelegge, M.A NoTE.-F~o~ Samuel Perrott to Thomas Hincks there were two ministers acting as colleagues. Appendix, Short Accourtt of the Geneval F~nd, Armstrong, Histo~y of P~esbyteyianism ig Dublin and South of Ireland, Irwin, I 890. Benrd, p Congregation erected at Glenary, First Meeting-home at Crumlin (or Camlin) Second Meeting-house at Crumlin Matthew Halbridge S.. David Airth John Riddel Thomas Crawford John Gibson Nathaniel Alexander George Hill.,. a ",.*, Francis McCammon.". John Jennings, B.A. Robert Cleland, B.A..,. George Walter Lewin James Hall *,. ' Archibald Young John Hutchinson

175 Thomas Jackson % Thomas Nevin, M.A. S.. William Nevin (son of T. N.) William Nevin, M.D. (son of W. N.) U,. James Neilson, D.D. Samuel Craig Nelson, M.A. David Gordon.... a.. Michael Smith Dunbar, M.A.. I visited this Meeting-house on 19 August, 1892, and here saw- Cups (6), pewter, 8* inches tall, plain, bell, knbp, stem, foot. Patens (4), pewter, 12 inches diameter, plain. Flagons (3), pewter, 15% inches tall, handle, beak, lid. No inscriptions. Collecting spoons.-here are also six spoons, made of copper, with long oak handles. All are inscribed on the copper- THE GIFT OF DAVID CADDELL, MERCHANT, TO THE DISSENTING CONGREGATION OF DOWNPATRICK Opened Former Meeting-house in Pound Street. G. E. E. Henry Hunter......,,, William Legatt Alexander Colville Alexander Colville, M.A., M.D Robert Black, D.D Thomas Cuming James Bankhead Samuel Craig Nelson, M.A Robert Edward Barnes Maclellan William Beck Miniss Samuel Ferguson.., Robert Millar David Thompson A Ramble th~ough Dvomore, John F. Mulligan, 1886, p. 35. Edward Baynes Thomas Harrison, D.D John Pinney William Mitchell Elias Travers, M.A Ralph Norris S Thomas Steward, D.D James Strong Peter Butler William M'Cay William Dunne, D.D NoTE.--T~~ Cooke Street congregation united with that of Strand Street n 29 March, Opened 22 Jan., 1764 ; preacher, John Mears. Formerly in Wood Street. Samuel Marsden ?-1677 Daniel Williams, D.D......,

176 g *, : *:., $g: v-.-s I I Gilbert Rule, M.D. Timothy Haliday, Assista~tt ~ose~h Boyse.. Thomas Emlyn.. Richard Choppin John Abernethy, M.A. James Duchal, D.D. Samuel Bruce John Mears John Moody, D.D. Thomas Plunket William Bruce, D.D. James Armstrong, M.A. ~illiam Hamilton Drummond, D.D George Allman Armstrong, B.A NOTE.--The Strand Street congregation removed to Stephen's Green Church on 14 June, :::, ' '.., -. t,: - - Opened about Formerly in New Row. A n Indejeltdent Congregation. Samuel Winter, D.D ? Samuel Mather, M.A Timothy Taylor Nathaniel Mather, M.A Nathaniel Weld John Hemingway. 1705?-1711 John Leland, D.D Isaac Weld, D.D Samuel Thomas Philip Taylor Joseph Hutton, M.A.

177 ~ames Martineau, D.D James Crawford Ledlie, D.D Thomas Hincks, B.A Thomas Felix Thomas Daniel Davies Jeremy, M.A Tao~~.--The Eustace Street congregation removed to Stephen's Green Church on 14 June, From 1783 to 1807 Eustace Street Chapel accommodated, in addition to its own congregation, that of S. Andrew's Church, at separate hours. Opened 14 June, 1863 ; preacher, William James. DUBLIN. STEPHEN'S GREEN. ONE OF THE HARRISON " CUPS. I I. George Allman Armstrong, B.A..., Daniel Davies Jeremy, M.A George Hamilton Vance, B.D On 16 August, 1892, I had the pleasure of inspecting the very fine collection of vessels now in the possession of the Stephen's Green congregation. There are here- Cups (4), silver, 102 inches tall, long bell, thick stem, ltnop, foot. Dublin date letter of Inscription (with coat of arms) on bell of the four cups- THE LEGACY OF DR. THOMAS KARRISON, DECD- SEPTEMBE ye I~TH, ANNO DOM. 1682, FOR ye SERVICE OF THE LORD' SUPPER, BEQUEATHED TO ye USE OF HIS CHURCH AT ye MEETING-HOUSE COOKE STREET, DUBLIN. NOTE.-Harrison was chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. By the kind offices of James Drummond, M.A., LL.D., Hon. D.Litt. (Dublilz), Principal of Manchester College, Oxford, engravings of one of these cups, and of the coat of arms and inscription, are added to this description. Cup (I), silver, 10 inches tall, plain bell, thick stem, knop, foot. Dublin date letter, No inscription.

178 290 Cups (3), silver, 10 inches tall, plain bell, thick stem, knop, foot. Dublin date letter, No inscription. ' Patens (2), silver, 113 inches diameter, plain. Dublin date letter, 1709 Inscription on bottom of each- THE GIFT OF MRS. DOROTHY SPENCE, WIDOW, TO THE MEETING-HOUSE AT THE HEAD OF WOOD STREET, DEC. YE IOTH, Patens (2), silver, I 1% inches diameter, plain. Dublin date letter, Similar to above, no inscription, but in centre of each a lozenge, 0, with crest of a bird resting. Paten (I), silver, 89 inches diameter, beautifully escalloped edge. Dublin date letter, Inscription in centre, with crest- THE BEQUEST OF, MRS. HANNAH SINGLETON TO THE CONGREGATION OF EUSTACE STREET DUBLIN. Paten (I), silver, g& inches diameter, beautifully escalloped edge. Dublin date letter, 1716 Inscription in centre, with coat of arms- THE BEQUEST OF MRS. REBECCA FORTESCUE TO THE CONGREGATION OF EUSTACE STREET, DUBLIN Patens (2), silver, g inches diameter, edges similarly escalloped to above. Dublin date letter, Inscription ' in centre of each- THE PROPERTY OF THE CONGREGATION OF EUSTACE STREET, DUBLIN.. PURCHASED IN 1814, WITH THREE CUPS GIVEN BY MRS. MARY HENDRICK AND MRS. MARY BAMBER TO THE CONGREGATION OF NEW ROW P Flagon (I), silver, I I inches tall, lid, beak, handle. Dublin date letter, Inscription- THIS FLAGON CONTAINS TWO CUPS PRESENTED FOR THE SERVICE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER TO THE CHURCH MEETING IN COOKE STREET (NOW IN STRAND STREET), BY MARIA MARSDEN, 1684, AND ELIZA TRAVERS, I 691. Flagon (I), copper, silver-plated, 94 inches tall, lid, beak, handle. Inscription- THE PROPERTY OF THE CONGREGATION OF EUSTACE STREET. TOPOGRAPI-IY. O~di~atiolz Service, Rev. James Martineau, wit h an Appendix containing a summary history of the Presbyterian Churches in the City of Dublin, by the Rev. James Armstrong, M.A., Beavd, p C. u., 1863, p Xtzq., 18 July, C. F., 1866, p Built Former one built Alexander Glass... John Malcome, M.A. S.. John Moorhead.a. James Stouppe, M.A. Robert Jackson.. WilliamTaggart,M.A.. Andrew George Malcom, D.1). Henry Montgomery, LL.D. Thomas Hugh Marshal1 Scott, M.A. John Alexander Kelly..

179 On 14 Oct., 1896, I visited this Meeting-house, and saw this plate- Beakers (2), pewter, 8 inches tall, fine floral pattern worked round the top. Inscription- DUNMURRY Patens (2), pewter, 15 inches diameter, plain. On base- H. M. Flagons (z), pewter, lid, handle, beak. On body of both On base of one- 1 - I. K. No~~.-on the outer back wall of Meeting-house is a stone inscribedand George R. Disciple,1883, p GLENARM.--OLD MEETING-HOUSE. Built Alexander Gilbert James Fleming David Houston John hnderson... Hugh Crawford... John Lee... James Creighton... Thomas Brown., - Thomas Reid..... Robert Acheson, Assistant.. Alexander Montgomery... Thomas Smyth, Assistant. John Jellie.... James Callwell S.. James Hall a. Robert Maxwell King..S.. Thomas Wilson Scott C. U., 1866, various pp. Congregation erected ' Opened 20 July, 1862 ; Preacher, Charles Beard, B.A., LL.D. Fergus Alexander, a Presbyterian, held Greyabbey , but left no succession. James Hamilton (P.uvita+z il.zcztnzbeat) James Baty.. m. a.. William Reid.... John Goudy (u~zdev wlto~n Grey abbey was i?tclztded in Bnllywatev) James Cochrane... e*. Hugh Dickson. S... Samuel Martin Stephenson, M.D. James Porter John Watson, M.A....

180 James Watson, Assistant William Orr McGowan,,, I William Hall, y William Hall John Miskimmin C. U,, 1862, p For the description of these vessels I am indebted to a fellow member of the Ex Libris Society, Mr. John Vinycomb, F.R.S.A.I., of Ho1ywood.-G. E. E. Cups (4), pewter, 8* inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. Inscription on bell- HOLLYWOOD, I ST C-G-N. Congregation erected Opened 23 Sept., 1849 ; Preacher, Henry Montgomery, LL.D. From 1645 to 1704, Holywood was included in Dundonald, under :- Thomas Peebles Gilbert Kennedy Thomas Cobham Thomas Cobham (see abozie)... Michael Bruce John Reatty... Arthur McMahon... (Arthuv McMecha~z, or Macmaho-11, fled the comtry, fov political -1>easons, eavly i~t 1797, bztt Holywood %:as not decla~ed vacafzt till g May, 1798). William Crawford, D. D.... John Cochrane Wightman... Samuel Hans Sloane, LL.D. James Alexander Johnson... Charles James M'Alester Clement Edward Pike... NOTE,-The Rev. CLEMENT EDWARDS PIKE, of HoIywood, says :- "Robert Cunningham is regarded as the founder of Presbyterianism in Holywood. He was inducted on November 9th, 1615, and was silenced on August ~oth, 1636, for Nonconformity. In 1642 an Eldership was erected in Holywood, a minister being sent for that purpose from the Presbytery ~hich had been formed at Carrickfergus on June ~oth, 1642 (see A True Narrative of tlze Rise a?~d Prog~rcss of the Pvesbyteriaiz Chz~rclz in Irela?td, by the Rev. Patrick Adair, p. 96, Icillen's edition). On 8th of April, 1644, the Covenant was administered at Holywood (see the original document preserved in the Museum of the Belfast Natural History Society). The Rev. George Wallace, a member of the Presbytery that met at Bally~nena on April 8th, 1659, was settled at Holywood (see A T?/~te Navrative, &C., by Adair; note to Killen's edition, p. 225). George Wallace conformed at the Restoration, and was admitted Vicar of Holywood on December rzth, 1661 (ibid., p. 262). It was probably after this event that the nnion with Dundonald took place." Flagons (2), electro, lid, handle, beak. Inscription on side or each- FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, HOLYWOOD. PRESENTED BY RICHARD PATTERSON, IZTH OCTOBER, C. F., 1871, p. 105.

181 James \Vatson, Assistnrzt William Orr McGowan,,,, 1844-%S48 William Hall,,) a William Hall John Miskimmin C. U., 1862, p John Keatty Arthur McMahon.. (Arthuv McMechan, or Macmahon, fled the count,ry, for $olitical qjeasons, eavly in 1797, but Holywood was not decla~fed vacafit till g May, 1798). William Crawford, D.D. John Cochrane Wightman... Samuel Hans Sloane, LLD. James Alexander Johnson.. Charles James M'Alester Clement Edward Pike ' For the description of these vessels I am indebted to a fellow member of the Ex Libris Society, Mr. John Vinycomb, F.R.S.A.I., of Ho1ywood.-G. E. E. Cups (4), pewter, 8% inches tall, bell, stem, knop, foot. Inscription on bell- HOLLYWOOD, I ST C-G-N. Patens (2), pewter, I 3& inches diameter, plain. Patens (2), pewter, 92 inches diameter, plain. Flagons (2), pewter, 8% inch,; tall, handle, no beak, lids missing. Inscription on front of each-. HOLY WOOD Patens (2), electro, plain. Inscription in centre of each- PRESENTED BY M. &. J. KERR, AND R. KERR GARDNER, DUBLIN, FOR THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN COXGREGATION, HOLYWOOD, Cups (4), electro, bell, stem, knop, foot. Inscription on bell- FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, ~IOLYWOOD. PRESENTED BY RICHARD PATTERSON, I2TH OCTOBER, Flagons (2), electro, lid, handle, beak. Inscription on side of each- FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, EIOLYWOOD. PRESENTED BY RICHARD PATTERSON, I2TH OCTOBER, C. F., 1871, p. 105.

182 Congregation erected Opened 16 August, Congregation joined Remonstrant Synod in 1835, and was deprived of old Meeting-house (built 1714) in First Meeting-house built Michael Bruce (in Pavish Clzzwclz) Michael Bruce (same wan) Archibald Hamilton... James Reid. Joseph Kinkead (installed 1763) George McEwen Samuel Watson, M.A. John McCaw Alfred Lancaster -.. Alexander Wilson IVilliam Weatherall....., C. R., 1845, p LARNE AND MILWAUGHTER.--OLD PRESBYTERIAN. Congregation erected Built in First built about Second built in Thomas Hall, M.A William Ogilvie James Hood, M.A VVilliam Leech ? Josias Clugston Robert Sinclair, M.A James Worral, B.A James Crawford Ledlie, D.D Classon Porter. m William M'Cullough James Kennedy On 22 August, 1892, I saw the.undernoted 23 vessels in the Meeting-house here.-g. E. E. Cups (z), pewter, 8* inches tall, plain bell, stem, knop, foot. Cups (3), pewter, 8 inches tall, same. Cups (4), electro, same. Patens (4), pewter, g+ inches diameter, plain. Patens (3), pewter, I& inches diameter, plain. Patens (4), electro. Flagons (z), pewter, 13 inches tall, beak, handle, lid. Flagon (I), pewter, lid missing. No inscriptions or dates on any of these vessels. On the organ, given during the present ministry, is a brass plate inscribed- THIS ORGAN WAS PRESENTED BY JOHN CRAWFORD, ESQ., LARNE, TO THE OLD PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION OF LARNE AND KILWAUGHTER, WITH WHICH CONGREGATION HIS ANCESTORS AND HE HAVE BEEN CONNECTED FOR UPWARDS OF Two CENTURIES. C. U., 1863 an3 1864, various pp. Historical Sketch of the First Presbyterian Congvegation of Larne, now known as the Old Presbyterian Congregation of Larne and Kilwaughter [James Kennedy], Belfast, 1889.

183 .. LIMAVADY. David Wilson 16gG-1715 William Conyngham Joseph Osborne 174z-Apri1,~ TVilliam Porter, M.A John Montgomery Robert Campbell, Junr James Callwell Willia m Napier Abram Lunn, Joseph Aikin Newel Built Samuel Ferguson..,,." James Blair Samuel Harpur.,. Thomas Creighton.. Meeting-lzozdse occzlpied by Secedevs Joseph Mitchell William Stitt S.. Andrew Craig S.. David Trotter..# George Dobbin John Cochrane Wightman.. Hamilton Dobbin - John Mulligan James Mulligan John Dickson Robert Scamrnell Clarke William Weat herall... Arthur Ellis O'Connor, B.D..,. a B \ MONEY REA.-MEETING-H~USE. - Hapilton, - McCullugh.. James M'Kean Samuel Patton Fletcher Blakely, M.A. John Jellie.. John ~eir~hill $ David Thompson Thomas,Leyland Harold Rylett ".. George Winslow Bannister Richard Lyttle On the 20th August, 1892, I saw the undernoted plate in the Sessions House at Moneyrea.-G. E. E. Cup, pewter, bell, stem, foot. Inscription on bell- FOR THE USE OF MONEYREA MEETING Flagon, pewter, I I inches tall, lid, handle, no beak. Same inscription round body. Also, a modern pewter set of- Cups (6), pewter, 8% inches tall. Patens (3), pewter, 14% inches diameter. Flagons (z), pewter, 8 inches tall, lid, handle, no beak. NOTE.-I have in my possession one of the leaden Communion tokens, formerly in use here. It is 12 inches long and B inch broad, and is lettered- MONEYREA CONGREGATION. -G. E. E. Bible Ch~istimz, Feb., 1836.

184 NEWRY.-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Date of Congregation, about Opened 17 July, 1853 ; preacher, Henry Montgomery, LL.D. First place of worship, Meeting-house Rocks till Second place of worship built about Third place of worship, in High Street, built George Lang George Lang (2nd time) Robert Rainey James Moody Boyle Moody... John Thom Andrew George Malcolm, D.D. John Mitchell Henry Alexander John Armstrong Crozier, B.A. Samuel Charles Pinkerton, B.A. On 17 August, 1892, I had the pleasure of seeing all these vessels in the schoolrooni of the Newry Church, and I also visited the Meeting-house Green burial ground, and saw the remains of the old pulpit and the fine sun-dial.-g.e.e. Cups (4)) electro, 8 inches tall, plain. Patens (3), electro, 142 inches diameter. Flagons (2), copper, 8+ inches tall, handle, beak, no lid. Almsdish, pewter, 16 inches diameter. On under surface- C. I. I. In Meeting-house Green burial ground, the site of previous Church in High Street, are a pulpit, from which John Wesley preached, and a perfectly preserved sun-dial, with inscription- THE GIFT OF R~BERT WALLACE, OF NEWRY, TO THE PROTESTANT DISSENTING CONGREGATION OF NEWRY. THE REV.,MR. JAMES MOODY, MINISTER C. F., 1868, p C. L., 30 March, Newvy TelegYaph, 12 April, 1894, NEWT0WNARDS.-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. Date of Congregation, Built John Maclellan John Grey Thomas Kennedy, PV1.A. Alexander Wutcheson [with Saintfield]. John Smith John Mears John Mears - Dobbin.. William Sinclair joseph Osborne Hugh Moore, M.A. George kansdowne.,.,.. John Joseph Magill, B.A. On 20 August, 1892, when visiting the venerable Hugh

185 ). Moore, M.A., at Newtownards, he showed me the six silver cups, in their oak chest, in his house; the remainder of the vessels, and the spoons, I saw in the meeting-house.-g. E. E. Cups (6), silver, g2 inches tall, bell, stem, foot. On all, this inscription- THE GIFT OF MR. WILLIAM KELLY TO THE OLD CONGREGATION OF Date letter much worn. Patens (6), electro, 79 inches diameter, plain. Patens (6), pewter, 9% inches diameter. On bottom- 'T A N Flagons (3), pewter, 12 inches tall, beak, lid, handle, plain. Almsdishes (3)) pewter, 143 inches diameter, plain. Copper collecting spoons (3). On all, this inscription- Oak handles 45 inches long. Date of Congregation, Built First Meeting-house built circa 171s or Second Meeting-house built circa I725 or Thomas Elder Samuel Fergie '. ' ? Moses Neilson (or Nelson), D.D Arthur Nelson Williai~l Crozier, M.A. ' James Kennedy S.. Barnard Gisby John Alexander Kelly On the 19th August, 1892, I visited Rademcm and saw all these vessels in the Meeting-house. I have in my possession one of the small leaden Communion tokens formerly used here, it is.%-inches wide, and $-inches long, and has stamped on it-.. j R / \ -G. E. E. Cups (4), pewter, 8 inches tall. Paten (3), pewter, 15 inches diameter. Inscription- KILMORE. Flagons (2), pewter, 11% inches tall. NOTE.-The Clock placed on front of gallery opposite to the pulpit, and still in good order and time keeping, is inscribed- ANN 23 ~MINISTERII a MoSe NEILSON A.D Disciple, I 883, p Inq., 8 Jan., 1888, '' A chapter of Ulster Reminiscences." RALO0.-REMONSTRANT CHURCH. Date of Congregation, John Compton William Orr McGowan Thomas Smyth

186 James Kedwards Edgar Solly Anthony, M.A., B.D Alfred Turner Joseph Alexander Miskimmin, B.A C. U., 1865, various pages. Date of Congregation, John M'Caw John Jellie Franklin Bradley a.. Richard Lyttle William Orr M'Gowan Supplies Robert Campbell Francis Martin Blair. ' Arrowsmith Hyde Shelley Alfred Turner I visited this meeting-house on 23 August, 1892, and there saw these vessels and spoons.-g. E. E. Chalices (4), silver, 4+ inches tall, bell, foot, two handles. Inscription on every bell- Date letter worn. Patens (4), pewter. Flagons (2), pewter. TEMPLE PATRICK. Copper collecting spoons (2). Inscription- THE GIFT OF JAMES BLOW, ESQ., TO THE Disciple,1881, various pp. Restored and re-opened g Oct., Anthony Kennedy Vacancy 2 yeavs. James Kirkpatrick, M.D Vacancy 3 years. William Livingstone Robert White John Abernethy Robert Campbell James McFerran...2 Jan.-10 July, 1849 Joseph Nelson ' Samuel Ferguson * WARRENPOINT. Date of Congregation, Formerly ifi Cavlifzgford, built John Wilson (Du~zdnlk, i~rcludi~zg Cnrli?zgford) CARLINGFORD. John Wilson (sanze man) Alexander Reed George Henry Robert Dickson Samuel Arnold " U

187 Samuel Arnold (same man)... a.. Samuel Moore a.. John Jennings.. William M'Cullough a. James Kennedy John Farmer Kennard George Winslow Bannister... William Edward Mellone.. I visited this Meeting-house on 17 August, 1892, and there saw these vessels.-g. E. E. Cups (4), electro. Patens (2), electro. Given to the Congregation in 1878 by Mrs. Brown, Miss Hancock, and Miss M'Murray. WALES. Afz ofshoot from Cwwyglo [Ynysgan]. Date of Congregation, Built Thomas Lewis.. Owen Rees..- Edwards David Evans. William Williarns Edward Evans John Davies David Oliver lfonathan Jones Thomas Evans John Jones S,. Rees Jenltin Jones, M.A. William James, B.A. Rees Jenkin Jones, M.A., 2nd time C. F., 1870, p Ifzq., 18 Dec., 1858.

188 Date of Congregation, Opened zo Dec., 1860 ; Preachers, William. James, David Lloyd, LL.D., and Thomas Thomas. Charles Frederick Biss John Joseph George James Shaw Jenkyn Thomas Inq., 29 Dec., 1860, C. R., 1861, p. 60. Date of Congregation, Built 1837 ; restored Original Chapel built 1740, afterwards converted into cottages. Jenkyn Jones David Lloyd David Davis.., John Davies (I) r 824?-1858 David Evans, B.A.., John Davies (2).., wife of Stephenson Hunter, Principal, Presbyterian College, Caermart hen. NoTE.-I~ school-house is the old oak chest, of quaint make, in which an early and now lost set of Communion Plate was kept in the original chapel, and used by David Davis, of Castellhywel, who, as is well remembered by my father, David,Lewis Evans, had amongst his occasional communicants 1010 Morganwg, the celebrated bard, antiquary and writer of Welsh hymns. -G. E, E. Built Original chapel built 1715/1720. Samuel Jones, M.A Rice Price.* * ' + * * C Williarn Rees John James John Edward Jones.*. Jenlcyn Williams Rees Cribin Jones.+" David Lewis Evans, S14jfi(y Titus Lloyd 1, Williarn Parry Mug (I), pewter, 3; inches tall, one handle. Paten (I), pewter, 8$ inches diameter. Cups (2) and patens (2), modern; the gift of Julia (Knight),

189 Date of Congregation, 1811? Opened 29 Aug., 1849 ; Preachers, George Browne Brock, J.P., Owen Evans, and John Edward Jones. First worship conducted (1812?-1833) in Dark Gate, and ( ) in Old Quakers' Chapel. Thomas Davis John Evans (except 3 mo~zths in ) David Lewis Jones John Palmer, B.A. David Evans, B.A., PYO tetrz.? David Lloyd, M.A., LL.D. David Peter Davies Stephenson Hunter Rees Jenkin Jones, M.A. John Gwenogvryn Evans, M.A. George Vance Smith, D.D.. Philemon Moore, B.A. Cup, silver, 65 inches tall, plain bowl, stem, foot, modern. Paten, silver, plain. M. R., 1811, p M* R., 1815, PP. 323,447- C* R., 1835, p* 59. C. R., 1836, p: 862. C. R., 1849, p c. P*, 1849, P Itzq., 8 Sept., Welshmn?~, 19 Jan., NOTE.-AS a boy I attended worship in this chapel, G. E. E CAERONEN. Date of Congregation, Opened Philip Pugh Evan Davies Timothy Davies Evan Davies 177 [8] John Jeremy Thomas J. Griffiths, supply....m David Evans, B.A Rees Cribin Jones Iq., 10 Nov., CAPEL Y BRUM. Date of Congregation, Opened 24 Dec., Thomas Thomas William Marles Thomas, M.A John Davies Inp., 17 Nov., CAPEL Y FADFA. Date of Congregation, Opened q

190 MXNISTERS. David 'Davis John Davies [o] David Evans, B.A Peter Joseph William Marles Thomas, M.A William James, B.A., J.P Williain Jenkin Davies Iq., 17 Nov., CAPEL Y GROES. Date of Congregation, Built Charles Lloyd, LL. D John James John Thomas John Davies Rees Davies...,,, Thomas Thomas, J.P Enoch Evans Jenkins Ifzq., 17 Nov., Date of Congregation, Opened 3 Aug., 1887 ; Preacher, Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. Hobart Clark... ' Owen James Jones George St. Clair NOTE.--T~~ small wooden font (an octagonal bowl, supported by small pillars) was made and given to the'congregation by its minister, Owern James Jones. Inq., I3 Aug., CEFNCOED Y CYMMER. Date of Congregation, Built Restored and reopened 4 Aug., Richard Rees a Philip Charles Thomas Davies Daniel Davies.., Owen Evans Isaac Thornas Williams John Hathren Davies Ifzq., 10 Nov., NoTE.--T~~ original congregation at Cwmyglo, founded about 1672 (from which Richard Rees seceded in 1747 to found Cefncoed y Cymmer) was regarded as a branch of the widely-scattered church served by Henry Maurice and Rees Prytherch, with their respective associates. [Ynysgan] is now an orthodox (Ind.) church. Its early ministers were:- Henry Maurice Rees Prytherch Roger Williams James Davies ?-l760 Richard Rees Cwmyglo

191 314 CILIAU AERON. Date of Congregation, Philip Pugh and associates Daniel Gronow David Davis (Castellhywel) and co- pastors [?l Thomas J- Griffiths Daniel Evans.., Thomas Emlyn Thomas 184 [2]-1846 Peter Joseph Thomas J. Griffiths John Jeremy, and other subblies Williarn Rees Lewis Williams 184- Iq., 17 Nov., CLUDACH VALE. Date of Congregation, Opened I Dec., 1895 ; preachers, William Griffiths, Ph.D., and David Ivor Davies. William Griffiths, B.D., Ph.D David Ivor Davies : Ifzq., 7 Dec., CRIBIN. 315 Thomas Griffiths *.. Daniel Evans Thomas Emlyn Thomas Peter Joseph.. Thomas J- Griffiths John Jeremy, a~zd other suj5fzies Thomas J- Griffiths, 2?zd t k e Rees Cribin Jones David Evans, B.A. William E- Davies David Evans Itzq., 17 Nov., CWMBACH.. Date of Congregation, Opened 7 Dec., First chapel bought from Baptists, and opened 13 Feb., 1859; preacher, Evan Lloyd, Blaengwrech. Evan William Lloyd David Ayron Thomas 1892 John Fisher Jones Chalice, pewter, 6 inches tall, bell, foot, two handles. Paten, pewter, plain. Flagon, pewter, 10 inches tall, beak, lid, handle. Opened Reo~ened 20 Oct., 1852 ; restored Inq., 10 Nov., 1888.

192 Date of Congregation, Opened 3 Oct., 1881 ; preacher, John Davies. John Hathren Davies William Jenkin Davies David Ivor Davies Szifiblies S Date of Congregation, Opened June, MINISTER. Rees Cribin Jones Inq., 17 Nov., Iq., 10 Nov., GELLIONEN. Date of Congregation, Built 1801 ; restored Original chapel built 1695 Llewellyn Bevan Roger H owe11., Joseph Simmons. [circa1722] Roger Howell, Su+jly Josiah Rees Thomas Rees, LL.D., David Oliver ? John James John Evans.., William Jenkin Davies John Fisher Jones S.ufjlies Thomas Joseph Jenkins Iq., 10 Nov., Date of Congregation, Q; Opened 4 July, Worship conducted in the ~garnmar School. William Marles Thomas, M.A William James, B.A., J.P William Jenkin Davies Thomas Arthur Thomas Inq., July, Date of Congregation, Opened g October, 1879 ; Preachers, George Vance Smith, D.D., and David Evans, B.A. First chapel built 1726 ; second chapel built 1733 ; third chapel built 1791 ; fourth chapel built 1834.

193 From this fourth chapel the congregation was evicted on a legal point, on zo Oct., On the following Sunday, worship was conducted by William Marles Thomas, M.A., in the open air near to the chapel. His text was S. Matthew X, 28. Until the opening of the fifth chapel in 1879, worship was regularly conducted in a temporary wooden building by the road side. The old chapel and its grave yard were eventually restored to the congregation, and the chapel is now used for the purposes of the Sunday School. Jenkin Jones David Lloyd David Davis (Castellhywel), and co- pastors John Davies 182 [o]-1858 David Evans, B.A Peter Joseph William Marles Thomas, M.A William James, B.A., J.P William Jenkin Davies Inq., 17 Nov., Inq., various dates, Oct-Dec., I;lzq., 18 Oct., NOTE.-^ the fourth chapel I was a regular worshipper, Jan., 1872-Dec., 1873, during which period I lived with, and was under the tuition of my revered master, William Marles Thomas, M.A., at the Llandyssul Grammar School; and here it was I made my first communion, at his hands, on Sunday, 2 March, He died on 11 Dec., 1879, just after the opening of the present chapel, in front of which he is buried. The eviction was a blow which told upon his constitution-a delicate one at the best-and from that event till the day of his death he was not the same man. He was a poet of no mean order; many hymns are from his pen, and his translation into Welsh of Tennyson's " Oh, yet we trust that somehow good, nlay be the final goal of ill " is very fine. His last poetical production, on his death bed, was in memory of his friend, Islwyn, whose tutor he had been.-g. E. E. MERTHYR-TY DFIL :-TWYNYRODYN. Date of Congregation about 1814, ousted from Ynysgan. (See also Cefncoed y Cynzmer for a% earlier ofshoot from that co~zg~egatio~). Thomas Evans David Rees, M.A., M.D. David John George Calbraith Lunn Frank Harrison Hill Nestor Rayson TVilliams David John Williams William Wynn Robinson TOPOGRAPHY, O M.R., 1814, p M.R., 1815, p Date of Congregation, about Opened 4 April, 1877 ; preacher, Thomas Thomai, J.P. Evan Lloyd a Titus Lloyd William Parry Szi$$lies W. J. Phillips Ifzq., 10 Nov., 1888.

194 ONEMFAWW. Trust deed dated 27 July, 1839, between Mr. William Rogers and Elizabeth, his wife, on the one part, and David Lewis Evans, and others. Opened 1838 ; preacher, John Griffiths.. David Griffiths [1843]-1849 Titus Evans....., John Davies David Lewis Evans John Evans Sz~pplies NoTE.-T~~ original (Baptist) congregation was formed in The Llandyfaen (Unitarian) congregation was an offshoot. from this, John Griffiths, the minister , preaching for the last time at the opening of Onenfawr Chapel. PANTDEFAID.. Date of Congregation, An oflshoot from Llwy~yn~hydowe~2. Built First chapel built Charles Lloyd, LL.D John James John Thomas, at ilttervals Owen Evans and others, Sztj;blies Thomas Thomas, J.P Thomas Arthur Thornas M.R.,, 1818, p Iq., 17 Nov., Date of Congregation, Built Became A rminian I 799. William Thomas Benjamin Evans S%p#Zied by Principal D. Lloyd, LL.D., and Students, Presbyterian College, Caermarthen t Titus Evans v.. Wil!iam Beynon Hughes Sufiplied by Students, Presbyterian College, Caermarthen Walter Jenkins William E- Davies jenkin Williams Swlies Date of Congregation, William Griffiths, B.D., Ph.D David Ivor Davies RHYDYGWN [USTRAD]. Date of Congregation, Built Ystrad schooll-house opened about Services first held in Lloyd Jack, a farmhouse. X

195 A? c MINISTERS. TOPOGRAPHY. Pq., 17 Nov., Uavid Jenkin Rees John James John Thomas John Davits Evan Lewis Rees Davies William Rees Lewis Williams RHY PARK. Date of Congregation Rebuilt about MINISTERS. Owen Davies Uavid Phillips [I John Evans David Beynon Titus Evans SziPPlied by Students, Presbyterian College, Caermarthen William Davies J enkin Williams ST. CLEARS :-GENERAL BAPTIST. Date of Congregation ofshoot from Salcm Bafitist Chapel. Mydrim (dates front 1737). The Unitarian inovement began in ajzd its sztpjovlers. ifzclwdiltg the minister of the congvegatiojz. Benjmrtin Phillijs. werc bought out. about for L50. MINISTERS. Benjarnin Phillips -18x David John S ~- John Thomas (see Pafttydefaid) David Beynon David Lewis Evans and other su.fi$ties William Davies S WANSEA :-HIGH STREET < Date of Congregation about Opened15 April ; Preacher. George Harris. a.m., William James. p.m. First opened ; second (on site of present one). opened MINISTERS. Higgs George? Denbury Robert? Wheatear George Palmer Solomon Harris William Howell Richard Aubrey.. f George Browne Brock, J.P. Matthew Gibson Edward Higginson Arthur Ransom, nssistafzt George Hamilton Vance, B.D. John Edmondson Manning, M.A. William Alfred Clarke Thon~as Robinson a...

196 Cups (2), pewter, 7 inches tall. Patens (a), pewter, 10% inches diameter. Flagon, pewter, 10 inches tall. Also a modern electro cup and paten. REGISTERS. I. Births and Baptisms Births and Baptisms I 786 C. R., 1847, p IB~., 8 Jan., U. H., Evan Lloyd S.. [1801] Titus Lloyd William Parry W. J. Phillips S Cup (I), pewter, 54 inches tall. Paten (,I), pewter, 9% inches diameter. Igtp., 10 Nov, 1888 Date of Congregation, Opened 7 Nov., 1894; Preachers, Jenkyn Thomas and John Hathren Davies. John Evans S William Jenkin Davies John Fisher Jones Thomas Joseph Jenkins Inq., 10 Nov., Iq., 17 Nov., Date of Congregation, Opened 1792.

197 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. Page 14. Bessell's Green, Topography, for L. P. S.," vcad L. P. A. Page 53. Colyton, JOY John Smith," read John B- Smith. Page 68. Derby, for Alexander I-I- McMaster," read Alexander Hill McMaster. Page 72. Ditchling, between 1689 and 1728, N- Webb was Pastor at Ditchling. Page 85. Failsworth, for " Joseph Heywood? 16gg/ ? " vead 16~~ Page 85. Failsworth, omit '' Griffith Swinton? " Page 55. Failsworth, for William Perkins, ,'' read Page 85. Failsworth, for "Henry Knight -," read Henry Knight, Page 85. Failsworth, for " Opened 1698? " read land bought 24 May, Page 86. Failsworth, for David L- Jones " read David Lloyd Jones. Page 87. Filby, for "John Mathias Beynon," read John Matthew Beynon. Page 87. Filby, for "Henry Bowles," read Henry Robert Bowles. Page 132. Lincoln, for " Israel Worsley, ," read Israel Worsley, 2nd time, Page 139. Liverpool, ~oiteth Park, for "Thornas Hugga(o)n,".~.ead Thomas Huggins. Page 150. Kensington, for " Frank Henry Freeston," read Frank Kerry Freeston. Page 197. Padiham, for '' Rushworth," r8ad Rushton. Page 263. Yeovil, for Milne, D.D." read Milner, D.D. THE MEETING OF CHESHIRE MINISTERS (UNITED BRETHREN). Founded 1691 ; regular minutes extant to 1745; absorbed #' MEETINGS were held regularly twice a year,.from 1693 onward, on the second Tuesday in May and August. In 1722 the latter meeting was postponed till September; it reverted to August in 1736; +but from 1740 till the time when the records cease, the month of meeting (with one exception, 1741) was again September. Besides these ordinary meetings-which were held at Knutsford, with only four exceptions as to place, since 1692-occasional extraordinary meetings were held at other places, chiefly for the purpose of conferring ordination. The Minute Book, formerly in the possession of Henry Green, M.A., and given by him to the trustees of Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford (q.~.), is kept with the utmost regularity and neatness from 1691 to 1745, and supplies no internal indicatiop of the cause of its sudden cessation. Mr. Green's conjecture on the subject seems plausible. In 1746, William Turner, then minister of Allostock, near Knutsford, left from ill-health, and apparently took the minute book of the Ministers' Meeting with him, since it was through his descendants that: it was restored to Cheshire, and given to Mr. Green. PLACE. DATE. PREACHER. &Iacclesfield - March, 1691, No seranon. 9 9 ~qapril, 1691, )P Dean Row ' 99 Knutsford 30 June, 1691, 9 9 Near Iinutsford 11 Aug.,, 1691, Samuel Laurcnce.

198 PLACE. DATE. PREACHER. - Sept., 1691, No sermon. Chelford Knutsford 24 May, 1692, Matthew Henry. Macclesfield 28 June, 1692, No sermon. Near Knutsford 17 Aug., 1692, Samuel Angierl Knutsford 27 Sept., 1692, No.sevmon. 9, 16 May, 1693, Ralph Ainsworth Aug., 1693, Eliezer Birch May, 1694, Joseph Eaton, M.D.,) 14 Aug., 1694, John Cheney., 9 7 May, 1695, John Byrom. p 9 13 Aug., 1695, John Harvey March, 1696, No sermon. 9 9 ra May, 1696, Joseph Cope. Clrester 11 Aug., 1696, James Owen. Knutsford 11 May, 1697, Gamaliel Jones. Nantwich 3 Aug., 1697, Adam Holland, M.D. Knutsford 10 May, 1698, Thomas Irlam Aug., 1698, William Dearniley. Macclesfield g May, 1699, Matthew Henry. Knutsford a Aug., 1699, Nathaniel Scholes. 9 p 14 May, 1699, Robert Holland. [And so on, in regular order: till May, 1745, Gabriel Nichols. 3) 3 Sept., 1745, Benjamin Street. [Whe~a comes tlze CHESHIRE GREAT GAP, and we lzave no record] till linutsford 19 June, 1764, Unk~z~own. THE PROVINCIAL MEETING OF MINISTERS OF THE COUNTIES OF LANCASTER AND CHESTER; (NOW, THE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF PRESBYTERIAN AND UNITARIAN MINISTERS AND CONGREGATIONS OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE), THE union of the Pr~incial Meeting and the Cheshire Meeting took place in consequence of the institution of the Widows' Fund, which was projected in 1762 by the Provincial Meeting at Warrington. The Cheshire ministers were invited to join in its establishment, a proposal which they gladly accepted; and, in order to carry it out more con~pletely, the Cheshire Meeting was discontinued, and the ministers of both counties met together at Warrington in June, There are no existing minute books of the Provincial Meeting till the year 1820, when its minutes were regularly kept, and when the Unitarian movement had assumed a distinct importance, and was already recognised in the official title of the Provincial Meeting. Nearly all we know of the history of the Provincial Meeting between 1765 and 1820 is due to the care of successive secretaries of the Widows' Fund, two of whom, however-rev. Thomas Barnes, D. D., secretary , and Rev. William Johns, secretary , and subsequentlyunfortunately, for our purpose, omit all distinct mention of the Provincial Meetings from their minutes. But between 1765 and 1782, and again in 1811 and 1812, we are furnished, not only with the names of the preachers, but apparently with a memorandum of every matter of importance. A list of meeting places and of preachers since 1800 is to be found in the existing minute books of the Provincial Meeting. The portion of the following list, prior to 1800, is revised from the RePovt (1870), hereinafter mentioned.

199 THE PROVINCIAL MEETING OF MINISTERS OF THE COUNTIES OF LANCASTER AND CHESTER.. a. 9 7 Bolton S a Manchester Liverpool, Benn's Garden Chowbent Bury Stockport (?) Warrington.., Bolton.,.,.. Manchester.,..., a.. v.. a...,..... S a.... i a.. L. DATE. 18 June, ,, ,, ,, ,, , I770 18,, ,, I ,, I , , I775 -,, 1776 I7 5, I777 16,, , X779 21,, ,, 1781 PREACHER. James Benn. Thomas Astley. Henry Holland. Wrilliam Enfield. Nicholas Clayton. William Brocklehurst. Robert Lord. Robert Lewirs. John Hughes.' Thomas (?) Rawlins. Samuel Mercer (7) Samuel Braybrook (?) Ufzk?towrt. John Palmer. Thomas Threllceld. Ralph Harrison. John Pope. h PLACE. Warrington Liverpool.,. Chowbent a * a Bury Altrincham.., Bolton.,. Manchester,.. Warrington,.. Liverpool.., Chowbent Bury Wigan,.... Altrincham Bolton Manchester Warrington Liverpool.,. Chester Chowbent Bury.. Altrincham.,,. O n DATE. 18 June, , , , , , 1787 IS (?),, (?),, 1789 I7 (?l 9, I , (?),, (?),Y I (32, I (?) 9, I (?l,y (?l,, I (?),, (?),, I799 -,, PREACHER. George Checklep. Joseph Healey (? Unknown , John Yates. ~?rk~~own , 7 3,,?, 9 George Walker. John Pope. William Hawkes.

200 PLACE. Bolton Manchester Warrington Liverpool Chowbent,.... Bury.. Altrinchaxn Bolton.. Manchester, Cross Street Chorley Warrington Liverpool, Paradise Street Chowbent Bury.. Altrincham Bolton Manchester, Cross Street Warrington Liverpool, Renshaw Street Chowbent Bury June, , ,, , P 8.. G....a..a a.. S.. I.. PREACHER. John Yates. Robert Smethurst. Ralph Harrison, Joseph Bealey. Thomas Smith. William Lamport. William Allard. Edward Higginson. Jonathan Hodgkinson. James Lyons, 'James Hews Bransby. John Gooch Robberds. John Grundy. William Johns. William Shepherd. William Broadbent. John Yates. Benjamin Rigby Davis. Arthur Dean. Hugh Hutton. George Harris. PLACE. DATE. Altrincham.,. 17 June, 1824 Bolton.. 16,, 1825 Manchester, Mosley Street 22,, 1826 Warrington 21,, 1827 Liverpool, Paradise Street 19,, 1828 Cbowbent 18,, 1829 Manchester, with Ext~aordinary Meeting of the B. C F. U. A. 16 and 17,, 1830 Bury S -. I7 9, 1831 Altrincham.., 21,, 1832 Bolton 20,, 1833 Manchester, Cross Street,.. I9,, 1834 Warrington 18,, 1835 Liverpool, Renshaw Street 16,, 1836 Chowbent..,.. zz,, 1837 Bury....,. 21,, 1838 Altrincham. 20,, 1839 Bolton.. 18,, 1840 Manchester, Upper Broolc Street... 24,, 1841 Warrington 16,, 1842 Liverpool, Paradise Street 22,, 1843 PREACHER. John Gaskell, M.A. William Hincks. William Tate. Charles Wallace, M.A. James Whitehead. John James Tayler, B.A. W. Johnson Fox 2nd Thos. Madge. John Relly Beard, D.D. John Gooch Robberds. John Hamilton Thom. James Afartineau, D.D. Charles Wicksteed, B.A. William Gaskell, M.A. Franklin Baker, Joseph Ashton. James Brooks. Mortimer Maurice. Robert Brook Asyland, M.A. John Colston. Franklin Howorth.

201 . PLACE. Du kinfield,,. Stockport Chester '.,. Preston.., Hyde, Gee Cross.., Chowbent Bury Altrincham.(. Bolton.., Manchester, Strangeways... Warrington.. Liverpool, Renshaw Street Manchester, Cross Street,.. Bean Row,.. Dukinfield Chester Preston Hyde, Gee Cross Chowbent,.* Bury Altrincham... DATE. 20 June, , ,, ,, 1848.a. v.., 1.. a L.. S.. a.. I.. PREACHER. John Robberds, B.A. Henry Green, M.A. John Harrison, Ph. D. George Vance Smith, B.A., D.D. Philip Pearsall Carpenter, B.A. William Henry Herford, B.A. Travers Madge. Francis Bishop. 'John Wright, B.A. George Henry Wells, M.A. Charles Beard, LL.D. Russell Lant Carpenter, B.A. William Henry Channing. Thomas Elford Poynting. James Panton Ham. John, Henry Hutton, B.A. Marmaduke Charles Frankland. Samuel Alfred Steinthal. John Gordon. James Drummond, M.A., LL.D. William Rinns. W Cc, P PLACE. DATE. Bolton rg June, x865 Liverpool, Hope Street 21,, 1866 Stockport,.. 20,, 1867 Manchester, Upper Brook Street 18,, ) Cross Street 17 p, 1869 Hyde, Gee Cross 16,, 1870 Du kinfield 14 and 15,, 1871 Rochdale,.. 19 and 20,, 1872 Liverpool, Renshaw Street. 18 and 19,, 1873 Manchester, Strangeways.,. 17 and 18,, 1874 Bury r6 and 17,, 1875 Gorton and 15,, 1876 Monton 20 and 21,, 1877 Southport.,. zo,, 1878 Oldham 19,p 1879 Bolton 17,, 1880 Lancaster 16,, 1881 Chowbent.,. 15,, 1882 Al.trincham 21,, 1883 Warrington 19,, 1884 Liverpool, Hope Street 18,, 1585 PREACHBR. Andrew Macrelght Creery, B.A. Brooke Herford, D.D. Lindsey Taplin, M.A. John Page Hopps. Charles William Robberds. Alexander Gordon, M.A. George Beaumont. Henry Enfield Dowson, B.A. James Black, M.A. Jeffery Worthington, B.A. th, W Charles Barnes Upton, B.A., B.Sc. ul Philip Henry Wicksteed, h4.a. William Croke Squier. John Calbraith Lunn. Charles Clement Coe, F.R.G.S. Silas Farrington. George Fox. Edward Samuel Howse, B.A. Richard Pilcher, B.A. Thomas Carter. Joseph Freeston.

202 PLACE., DATE. PREACHER. Manchester, Up. Brook Street...g and 10 June, 1886 James Edwin Odgers, M.A Denton. 16,, 1887 Charles Thomas Poynting, B.A. Stockport Philip Martineau Higginson, M.A. Hyde, Flowery Field Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A. h/ianchester, Cross Street,.. 18 and 19,, 1890 ' Douglas Walmsley, M.A. Monton.., William George Cadman. Hyde, Gee Cross,, Dendy Agate, B.A. Bolton.,. I5,, 1893 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, M.A. Southport 14,, 1894 John Collins Odgers, B.A. Dultinfield.... a zo 1895 Charles Wm. Wellbeloved. Bury George Knight. Rochdale =.. 7, The title, " Provincial Assembly," now officially adopted, does not appear at all before 1842; but its adoption as a customary designation of the Meeting, though not yet authorised, is apparent in nearly all printed documents referring to the Meeting since the introduction (1856) of the " delegate " system. For further information on this subject the reader is referred to the Report on the Laws and Usages of tl Assembly, compiled by the Special Committee, which was appointed on 14th October, 1869, to examine the minutes of the Assembly, and to draw up a statement of the laws and usages of the Assembly from the beginning, and to print and circulate the same. This report was revised, adopted, and ordered to be published on 13th January, A LIST OF SOME OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE UNITED BRETHREN OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF EXETER, AND COUNTY OF DEVON. DATE. PLACE'.. Tiverton xflfarch, , 24 June, 1691 Topsham 7 Oct., 1691 Exeter 3, 4 May, 1692 )P 4 - Sept., - C.. 18, 19, 20 April, 1693 Exeter 6, 7 June, , 4 Oct., 'g' 8, g May, , D.O 2, 3 April, aO 4, 5 Sept., ,.g. 3,4 Sept., 1695 Plymouth 5,6May,1696. Exeter... 7, 8, g Sept., ,,P 5, 6 May, 1697 MODERATOR. Richd. Sanders... John Flavel Geo. Trosse 7 Geo. Trosse Saml. Tapper Edw. Parr Benj. Hooper Robt. Collings,.. Robt. Care1 Nich. Sherwill Sam Stoddon Jno. Berry Jno. Balster - SUPPORTER.. Benj Hooper Robt. Collings Stephen Towgood. * Sam. Hall Jno. Moor Jacob Sandercock Wm. Horsham Jno. Ball Isaac Gilling Jno. Withers PREACHER. - Robt. Carel. James Wood. Saml. Tapper. W W - U Jno. Bush. Saml. Stoddon. Jno. Galpin, Sen. Jno. Berry. Hen. Blackaller, Nich. Sherwill. Robt. Collings. Theo, Tingcombe. Benj. Hooper. Jno. Ball.

203 DATE. - Sept., May, ,8Sept.,1698 g, 10 May, , 6 Sept., ,8May,1700 3, 4 Sept., , 7 May, 1701 g, 10 Sept,, , 6 May, , g Sept., , 5 May, , 8 Sept., May, , 13 Sept., , g May, , 4 Sept., , 8 May, , 4 Sept., , 7 May, I707 g, IO Sept., I PLACE. Exeter Sarnl. Tnpper Jno. Ball Hen. Blackaller Steph. Towgood Jos. Wallet Sarn Atkins Isaac Gilling Benj. ~ooper Joseph Wallet Wm. Worsham Deliver. Larkham Jacob Sandercock Joseph Hallet Benj. Hooper Jno. Moor Deliver. Larkham Jno. Withers Geo. Trosse Nath. Harding Jno, Walrond -.I. - _ Deliverance Larkham Jno. Walrond Jno. Enty Matt. Pardu - 0 Tho. Walsh - I Tho. Edgeley - Mum. Berry Wm. Giles - Pet. Kellow.. Jelinger Symonds Saml. Short Hen. Atkins Jno. Cox Josiah Eveleigh. PREACHER. Jno. Hanmer. Geo. Trosse. Jno. Balster. Steph. Towgood. Jos. Hallet. Sam. Atkins. Bernd. Star. Nath. Harding. Isaac Gilling. Sam. Hall. W Jacob Sandercock. (7% Wm. Horsharn.,The. Walsh. Jno. Moor. Jno. Withers. Deliver. Larkham. Sam. Wood. Angel Spark. Richd. Evans. Jno. Walrond. Jno. Enty. DATE. 4 May, , 8 Sept., , 4 May, I709 *** 6, 7 Sept., g, 10 May, , 6 Sept., , g May, , 5 Sept., , 7 May, 1712 g, 10 Sept., , 6 May, , g Sept., May, , 8 Sept., May, Sept., , g May, , 5 Sept., , 8 May, , 4 Sept., 1717 PLACE. MODERATOR. SUPPORTER, Exeter Deliver. Larkham John Sloly. p *.. Geo. Trosse Joseph Manston,, Isaac Gilling John Norman..*.. John Enty John Hughes.. Joseph Manston Pet. Baron,, Richard Evans Wm. Bartlet... Tho. Edgley Wm. Palk,, Wm. Giles -. John Ball Matt. Huddy John Withers Jonath. Wheeler.... Geo. Boucher Jaspar How,, Jno. Walrond -.. Benj. Hooper Saml. Stoddon.. James Peirce Hen. Brett,, - Jacob Sandercock Hugh Brown John Enty Roger Bradon - Isaac Gilling Tho. Bishop - John Ball Sam. Carkeet - Nat. Harding Nich. Brinley.. - Tho. Edgley - Lissant. Dan. Kellow. Tho. Edgley. Wm. Giles. PREACHER. Jacob Bailys. Peter Kellow. Sam. Mullins. Mich. Martyn. Jelinger Symonds..,Gee. Boucher. Sam. Short. W W Dr. Edmd.Ca1amy. a Hen. Atkins..., James Pierce. Jno. Cox. Josiah Eveleigh... John Hughes. Wm. Bartlett. Jos. Manston. Pet. Baron. Joseph Hallett, Sr.

204 The above particulars are extracted from the original MS. minute book, a small quarto, largely in shorthand, which, since 1855, has been in the custody of Dr. Williams's Trustees, and is now in their library in Gordon Square. On the inner front cover is affixed a label with this inscription :- This volume was in the possession of Bishop Trelawny, into whose hands I suspect it to have come from Mr. Bond, of Looe; who was an High Churchman, and obsequious servant of the DATE. PLACE. MODERATOR. SUPPORTER. PREACHER. Bishop, but whose near relative was an eminent Dissenti?tg minister, whose name is on the inside of the cover of the volume. 7, 8 May, 1723 Exeter John Walrond - Cooper (?). v 3, 4 Sept., 1723,, ~amuel stoddo~ ~ichd= 5, 6 May, 1724,,. William Palk - - Green (I) on some religious subject by this Mr. Bond, in the possession of 8, g Sept., 1724,, Michael Martyn Bond (?) the late Thomas Bond, Esqn*p of Looe (author of an History of 4, 5 May, 1725,, Jacob Sandercock - - Walter (?) those Boroughs). It was in manusc~jpt, a?zd is now ilz the Jones (?l *** - Darracot (?) (c( Bond, Sept. 5, 6, 1710."-G. E. E.] I have seen a ireatise 6,7Sept.,1725,, John Withers. - possession of Davies Gilbe~t, EsqrL* of Eastbozcnze. P.R.S. 3, 4 May, 1726.~.,, Richard Evans - John Edmonds (?) JONATHAN COUCH, Po&er~o, Contwatl. 6, 7 Sept., a.. - Green -. g,1omay,1727 9, on' - Bond - There is also in the volume (loose) the interesting letter 5, 6 Sept., 1727,, JohnBall - - in which Mr. Couch hands the book to the trustees, by 7, 8 May, 1728,,.,. john Lavington - Follet.,,.., - Coplestone, whose permission, at the hands of their librarian, Francis 3, 4 Sept., 1728,, Richard Jones - Henry Jones, B.A., I have had the volume on loan, and Immediately after the last minutes, but in a later handwriting, is this note:- made copious extracts from it in my common-place book. 61Mem.-No minutes appear to have been preserved from this time till May, 1733, for which, I look this minute book as One of great value and importance, inasmuch as it proves, with the one noted and the subsequent ones, see the Book marked No. 3." ~t is probable that this mem., and those referring to the other minute books, referred the practice of requiring in the the to above, if we may judge by the were made in the early part of this, the ministers during the period covered the entries* * * * * - + * * * nineteenth century. The next series of meetings is extracted from another original MS. minute book, which I had the good fortune to discover amongst the papers and books of the late James Taplin, one of my father's predecessors in the ministry of George's Meeting, Colyton (q.v.), Devon, into whose hands it came some time between I found it in 1888, and deposited it with Dr. Williams's Trustees, who kindly gave me a line-for-line copy of it, in the handwriting of their librarian. At the end of the MS. is a memorandum

205 concerning two other boolcs, making, with it, a set of three, and carrying the minutes back to September, 1721, and on to May, Where those other two books are I cannot say, but I am inclined to think that the late Jerom Murch must have seen them when writing the article on p. 548 of, his History of Presbytevialz and General Baptist Chwches iru the West of England, published in Possibly they may yet turn up ; if so, the finder cannot do better than deposit them with their fellows. Whether such MSS. are public or private property is rather hard to say. The custom seems to have been for the scribe or clerk to keep the rninutes as if they were his own, and in this way many minute books have been lost, either wholly or for a time. Under date 7 and 8 May, 1728, there are the following entries in the minutei relating to the Assembly's care for certain Communion Vessels :- "Agreed that Mr. Sloly be desir'd to deliver some pieces of silver plate he hath in his hands which he formerly us'd att the celebration of the Sacrament in Silverton. Mr. Sloly promis'd to comply wth the request of the Assembly, and to deliver the plate in the afternoon, he having a proper rect to Indemnify him. c' Mr. Sloly, according to his promise, brot the said pieces of plate to the Assembly, for which they gave him a rect in the following words, viz. :-May 8th, We, the Ministers of Devon now assembled, do hereby acknowledge yt we have recd att the hands of the Revd. Mr. John Sloly three pieces of silver plate (viz.), one silver plate mark'd B in the brim W E 1691, and on the backside the weight, 20, 12 ; one silver beaker, mark'd only in the bottom as to its weight, 5, 18, and one silver bowl, mark'd in the side, I Y W B 1662 and with the weight in the bottom, 5, 10, being pieces of plate which he, the said Mr. Sloly, says he had us'd always in the celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper whilst he was minister of the Protestant Dissenting congregation at Silverton ; for which pieces of plate, so rec'd by us, we promise to indemnify the said Mr. Sloly. Subscrib'd att the request and in the name of the ministers of Devon assembled on the above 8th of May by us- JOHN LAVINGTON, JOHN ENTY, Scribe. "Agreed, that the Exeter ministers, upon advising wth some of the people of Silverton about the said, may deliver it if they think fit to Mrs. Elizabeth Gold, shee giving a proper rect for the same to indemnify the Assembly." Mu~ckc, p Puritanism in Dcvon, and thd EYC~~Y Assewb~, by R. N. Worth, F.G.S., read at Kingsbridge, July, 1877, reprinted from the Tvansa~tions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1877.

206 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DUDLEY DOUBLE LECTURE. The late James Scott, Minister, Park Lane Chapel, Cradley (q. v.), , says, in his MS. history of that society, "The Rev. J. Willets preached in the house of Mr. Jos. Smith, situated on the turnpike road leading to Wolverhampton [from Dudley]. Here a regular society was formed; and the ejected ministers in the neighbourhood agreed to preach a double lecture on Whitsun Tuesday, which, after the removal of the society to the Chapel in Dudley, has been ever since continued there." In the original minute book (now in keeping of the secretary for the time being of the Monthly Meeting of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Warwickshire and neighbouring Counties, established 1782) there is this note on p. 4:-" I find that the Dudley Double Lecture took place immediately after, and in consequence of, the Act of Conforn~ity being passed, i. e., That it was established by the ejected ministers of Dudley [no minister. was ejected from Dudley] and the neighbourhood in, commemoration of that event, and with the view of maintaining and extending the principles of dissent. We have no account of minutes before 1723, but I have ascertained the following , 1758, 1769, 1770, 1773." - J [ohn] P [almer]. ZECTURERS George Flower... Stourbridge. James Thompson. Bromsgrove Samuel Bourn.. On the true way of strivi~zg for the Gospel..Published and. sold by Benj. Bourne, at the Golden Lion, Ludgate Hill William Hawkes ' John Clements 1769 Samuel Clark T- Sutton I770 Isaac Llewyllin Robert Gentleman 1773 Stephen Addington John Herries 1776 William Warburton 1777 Benjamin Evans John Jones Lucas John Clements 1779 [Noah?] Hill John Cole Bradshaw... Dr. Priestley 1781 Benjamin Carpenter Hugh Worthington 1782 Thomas Belsham Joseph Evans 1783 Richard Amner Joseph Gummer 1784 William Procter Peter Emans 1785 Robert Gentleman William Wells.., 1786 Benjamin Carpenter Radcliffe Scholefield 1787 Robert Gentleman John Hobson Birmingham. Warwick. Birmingham. Nottingham. Walsall. Kiddeiminster. Market Harbro'. London.. Creaton.... Alcester. Bewdley. Warwick..S. Wolverhampton. Birmingham. Stourbridge... Leicester. " Late at Worcester." Sheffield. Coseley. Worcester. Oldbury. Coventry. Kidderminster. Bromsgrove. Stourbridge. Birmingham. Kidderminster. Kingswood. " At the meeting at Dudley Double Lecture, May zgth, 1787, present: Mr. Blythe, Mr. ~awlkes, Mr. Baker, Dr. Priestley, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Emans, Mr. Cole, Mr.

207 Amner, Mr. Wood, Mr. Gentleman, Mr. Procter, Mr. Severn, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Griffiths, Mr. Beasley. Resolved :- 'c That ye Persons who preach shall have ye Nomination of the Preachers for the year following. "That ye Senior of tb.et Preachers shall pray the year following, unless absent, in wch case ye other shall perform ye same duty. &'That every Minister attending ye Lecture produce a Sermon at the Minister's house a quarter before eleven o'clock, and that he be censured in case he do not, by the Senior Preacher. That in case either of ye appointed Preachers be absent, he who has not preached for ye longest time shl take his turn. This rule to apply, if both Preachers of the last year be absent, to the devotional Service. "That these rules be read over by the Ministers of ye place at every Lecture. It is ye wish of us here present that these rules be read over and adopted at Oldbury." Extract from Minutes Samuel Griffiths William Severn, Wolverhampton., Hinckley. " Dr. Priestley prayed." 1789 [ Ebenezer?] Beasley... [Walsall?] John Coates... Birmingham Benjamin Kingsbury... Warwick. John Kings... Cockey Moor James Scott Cradley. Jeremiah Deathwick, or Dethick... Ashby and Bardon William Field.. Warwick. Holt Thomas Moore. Walsall. John Edwards. Birmingham John Tingcombe. Kingswood. John Jones. Bewdley Thomas Bowen Walsall. Benjamin Carpenter... Stourbridge Samuel Griffiths... Wolverhampton. Radcliffe Scholefield.. Birmingham [William?] Blake. [Crewkerne?] [ Joseph?] Evans [Sheffield?] 1798 'Herbert Jenkins Stourbridge. William Severn.... Kidderminster James Scott Cradley. Thornas Barnes, D.D. Manchester Samuel Allard, B.A... John Coates.. Birmingham William Tullidelph Procter.. Oldbury. Benjamin Carpenter Mercer. Bromsgrove. Benjamin Maurice Alcester John Kentish v Birmingham. Robert Kell Birmingham John Corrie, F.R.S.. Birmingham. Nicholas Shattock Wolverhampton Herbert Jenkins. Stourbridge. Joshua Toulmin, D.D.... Birmingham Thomas Howe.. Bridport. Thomas Bowen Walsall Thomas Barnes, D.D... Manchester. Peter Emans Coventry Joseph Bull [Bristowe] Mansfield. Benjamin Carpenter Stourbridge John Kentish Birmingham. Richard Fry.. Kidderminster Samuel Griffiths Oldbury. James Scott.. Cradley Reece Lloyd Kingswood. John Rowe Bristol Willlam Allard..... Bury, Lancs. Joseph Bealey -.. Cockey Moor John Corrie, F.R.S.... Birmingham. Joshua Toulmin, D.D.... Birmingham.

208 Timothy Davis Coventry. Benjamin Carpenter Stourbridge. John Small Coseley. Robert Kell Birmingham. Tames Yates, M.A. " Lately of'~las~ow." ~ames Scott. Cradley. John Kentish Birmingham. James Hews Bransby Dudley. Timothy Davis Oldbury. Richard Fry Kidderminster. Thomas Warren Stourbridge. Robert Little.., " Late of Gainsborough." James Yates, M.A. Birmingham. Thomas Bowen.. Timothy Davis Evesham. James Scott Cradley. Robert Kell Birmingham. Joseph Guy., Birmingham. Hugh Hutton, M.A. Birmingham. John Owen Tamworth. Benjamin Carpenter Alexander Paterson, Wiliam Bowen Nottingham. M.A. Stourbridge. Coventry. Reece Lloyd Kingswood. Richard Fry Kidderminster. John Kentish Birmingham. Timothy Davis Oldbury. John Reynell Wreford, D.D. Birmingham. Woodville. John Cooper Coseley. John Corrie, F.R.S. John S- Hyndman " Supply at Cradley." Samuel Allard Hinckley. Samuel Bache. Dudley. Timothy Davis Evesham Stephenson Hunter Wolverhampton. Evan Jones Bewdley Hugh Hutton, M.A. Birmingham. Robert Kell Birmingham Alexander Paterson, M.A. Stourbridge. John Kentish Birmingham William Bowen... Cradley. Stephenson Hunter Wolverhampton Alexander Paterson, M.A. Stourbridge. John Kentish Birmingham John Taylor " Late Independent, now of New Meeting, Kiddermin- ster." Timothy Davis Evesham [John] Howard Ryland. Samuel Bache Birmingham William Bowen.. Cradley.. John Gordon Coseley William Parkinson. Tarnworth. John Kentish Birmingham Hugh Hutton, M.A. Birmingham. William McKean Oldbury John Relly Beard, D.D.. Manchester. JohnTaylor.. Kidderminster Lewis Lewis Cheltenham. Alexander Paterson, M.A. Stourbridge Matthew Gibson Kidderminster. Stephenson Hunter Wolverhampton Samuel Bache.,. Birmingham. John Savage West Bromwich Timothy Davis. Evesham. John Kentish Birmingham Stephenson Hunter Wolverhampton. Alexander Paterson, M.A. Stourbrige William Bowen... Cradley. Thomas Bowring Birmingham.

209 William McI<ean Oldbury. Stephenson Hunter Wolverhampton, James Cranbrook Birmingham. Timothy Davis Evesham. Joseph Henry Hutton, B.A. Gloucester. Samuel Bache Birmingham. William Cochrane Cradley. '* Matthew Gibson Kiddernlinster. Archibald Forbes Macdonald, M.A. Birmingham. William McKean Oldbury. Thomas Bowring Birmingham. Charles Clarke Birmingham. Joseph Eades Fletcher Coseley. Edward Myers, F.G.S... Walsall. Edward Higginson Wakefield. William McKean Oldbury. John Calbraith Lunn Evesham. William Bowen... Kingswood. Elihu Holland Boston, U.S.A. Richard Edward Dunne... Birmingham. Benjamin Wright Birmingham. Charles Clarke Birmingham. Samuel Bache Birmingham. John Gordon., Dukinfield. Henry McKean... Oldbury. William Newton Hinckley. Thomas Hugh Marshal1 Scott,.. Wolverhampton. George I-Ieaviside, B.A Coventry. Samuel Bache Birmingham. Edward Rristow Birmingham. Joseph Heywood Kingswood. David Maginnis, F.R.Hist.S. Stourbridge Benjamin Wright Birmingham. Charles Frederick Biss... Birmingham Edward Parry Kidderminster. Richard Edward Dunne. Birmingham. In 1866, the double lecture was discontinued, and Dudley was included as one of the regular places of the Monthly Meeting.

210 SOME ACCOUNT OR THE OLDBURY DOUBLE LECTURE. % Concerning this lecture, Job Orton says (27 June, 1775) :-" I wondered very much when I was a child that no more notice was taken of Bartholomew's Day by the dissenters, as I had heard so much of it from my grandfather and others, pious relations and aged Christians. Oldbury lecture in this neighbourhood used to be preached in the week in which the 24th of August fell, and was instituted on purpose to commemorate these eminent men. I once preached there, and considered their case. But on account of the harvest it was put off to the middle of September [second Tuesday in September], which I think was wrong, as the object of the lecture was in time forgotten. I persuaded some ministers whom I could be free with, when they preached this lecture, to keep in view the intention of it, and they did so, much to the pleasure and edification of their hearers." In his MS. history of Park Lane Chapel, Cradley (g. v.), James Scott says :-" Oldbury lecture has existed more than a century. Tradition reports that a stack of chimnies fell down at the Brades House, by which the Turton family were in imminent danger. To express their graditude for this deliverance they invited the neighbouring ministers to assist them in keeping a day of thanksgiving; who from that time annually assembled in the Dissenting Chapel in Oldbury. I have since learnt, from undoubted authority, that it was instituted to commemorate the ministers ejected on Bartholorllew's Day, 1662." David Maginnis, F.R.Hist.S., minister at Stourbridge (g. v.) , in his "Historical Sketch," read at the Centenary Celebration of the Monthly Meeting of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Warwickshire and the neighbouring Counties, held in Birmingham, 13 December, 1882, says :-" A traditional account attributes the origin of the Oldbury Lecture to the following incident-the Turton family, who resided at the Brades, narrowly escaped serious injury from the falling of a part of their house, and they invited the neighbouring ministers to assist them in keeping a Day of Thanksgiving, and it has been stated that the ministers from that time annually assembled in the Oldbury Dissenting Chapel. The fact seems to be that the Oldbury Lecture, though not coeval with the Dudley Lecture, was founded for the same object by successors of the ejected ministers, and that the Brades accident occurring about the same time as one of the Oldbury Lectures was naturally made a prominent subject of thanksgiving by the brethren, the Turtons being an influential and much respected family, with whom the eminent minister of that name, of Birmingham and Oldbury, was closely connected." The earliest reliable record of this lecture is the minute book, which begins in LECTURERS Samuel Fawcett,... No charge. Richard Amner... CoseIey Benjamin Evans. Alcester. William Warburton Creaton Noah Jones Walsall. Hugh Worthington, junr John Kings... [Bromsgrove?] Thomas Jackson Jefferies [John] Palmer John Humphries West Bromwich. Philips 1782 Habbakuk Crabb Timothy Priestley... z

211 1783 William Wood John Cole 1784 Samuel Griffiths Dr. Priestley 1785 Robert Gentleman Peter Emans 1786 William Wells H ill 1787 John Hobson Joseph Evans 1788 John Coates Joseph Gummer 1789 Benjamin Carpenter Radcliffe Scholefield '79' ~amuel Williarn??] Allard - Samuel Griffiths 1791 James Scott Lucas 1792 Thomas Moore Richard Amner David Jones Lewis 1794 John Tingcoinbe John Edwards 1795 Benjan-in Carpenter W-illiam Wood 1796 Herbert Jenkins John Coates 1797 Samuel Griffiths Brewer 1798 Thomas Bowen Benjamin Maurice 1799 William Allard ~adcliffe Scholefield 1800 Thomas Moore Mercer. +. Dudley. [Wolverhampton? J Wolverhampton. Birmingham. Kidderminster. Coventry. Bromsgrove. Kingswood. Sheffield. Birmingham. Worcester. Stourbridge. Birmingham. Wolverhampton. Cradley..,b. Walsall. Coseley.. Birmingham. **b Kingswood. Birmingham. Stourbridge. Dudley. Stourbridge. Birmingham. Wolverhampton. Walsall. Alcester. Coseley. Birmingham. Kingswood James Scott Cradley. Robert Kell Birmingham Benjamin Carpenter Bromsgrove. William Wood Dudey Herbert Jenkins Stourbridge. John Kentish Birmingham James Scott Cradley. Samuel Palmer Hackney Nicholas Shattock Wolverhampton. Peter Emans Coventry John Corrie, F.R.S. Birmingham. Joshua Toulmin, D.D.... Birmingham James Hews Bransby Dudley. RobertKell Birmingham Thomas Moore Kingswood. Richard Fry Coseley. Peter Emans Coventry. Edmund Butcher Sidmouth John Kenrick, M.A. York John Lane!.. Kidderrninster John Kentish Birmingham. Benjamin Carpenter Stourbridge Reece Lloyd Kingswood. Timothy Davis Coventry John Small Coseley. James Hews Bransby Dudley John Steward Wolverhampton. Joseph Guy Birmingham William Turner, Jun. " Manchester Coll., York." Richard Fry Kidderminster John Corrie, F.R.S. Handsworth. Thomas Bowen... Walsall James Scott Cradley. John Kenrick, M.A. York RobertKell Birmingham.

212 356 William Wells " America." [Min. at Brattleborough, Vermont ; formerly at ~romsgrove.f" John Kentish Birmingham. Timothy Davis Evesham. James Yates, M.A. Birmingham. James Hews Bransby Dudley. Israel Worsley Plymouth. Thomas Belsham London. Edmund Kell Birmingham. John Kenrick, M.A. York. Alexander Paterson, M.A. Stourbridge. Hugh Hutton, M.A. Birmingham. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. Bath. Charles Wallace, M.A... Altrincham. Evan Jones Bewdley. John Small Coseley. Reece Lloyd Kingswood. William Bowen... Coventry. John Reynell Wreford, D.D. Birmingham. James Scott Cradley. John Kenrick, M.A. York. John Cooper Coseley. Samuel Bache Dudley. John Kentish Birmingham. John Kenrick, M.A. York. Thomas Bowen Michael &I aurice Walsall. Southampton. Richard Fry Kidderminster. Henry William Gardner Wreford Coventry. Stephenson Hunter Wolverhampton. Alexander Paterson, M.A. Stourbridge. John Kell John Palmer, B.A. John Kentish John Palmer, B.A. William Bowen... John Owen.. William Hincks, F.L.S. William Bowen.. Alexander Paterson, M.A. Timothy Davis Williani Parkinson John Gordon W.. William Parkinson William McKean Timothy Davis Thomas Bowring John Kentish Benjamin Carpenter Lewis Lewis John Savage.. John Fife Manderson Samuel Bache John Gordon Hugh Hutton, M.A. Matthew Gibson John James Tayler, B.A. John Gordon Samuel Bache Hugh Hutton, M.A. John Balmer, B.A. James Cranbrook Thomas Bowring Robert Wallace John Calbraith Lunn Stephenson Hunter Samuel Bache John Palmer, B.A. Dudley. Birmingham. Dudley. Cradley. Tamworth. York. Cradley. Stourbridge. Evesham. Tamworth. Coventry. Tamworth. Walsall. Evesham. Birmingham. Birmingham, Nottingham. Cheltenham. Coseley. Birmingham. Coventry. Birmingham. Kidderminster. Manchester. Coventry. Birmingham. Birmingham. Dudley. Birmingham. Birmingham. Bath. Coseley. Wolverhampton. Birmingham. Dudley.

213 John Howard Ryland.., Bradford, Yorks. Charles Clarke Birmingham. Richard Shaen, M.A. Dudley. William Bowen..... Kingswood. Fletcher Blakeley.. Moneyrea. John Robertson. Birmingham. Edward Myers, F.G.S. Walsall. Samuel Bache Birmingham. John Dendy, M.A. Charles Clarke... John Gow, B.A. Thomas Hunter Samuel Davidson, Yh.D. William Orr McGowarl.. Edward Parry... William Cochrane Robert Henry Gibson, Stourbridge... Birmingham. Cheltenham... Coventry. Dudley. Ravara, but then without charge. Kidderminster. Cradley. B.A.... Stourbridge. John Thomas, B.A. " St. John's Coll., Cambridge." Percy Bakewell, B.A. Warwick. John Omer Squier Walsall. Charles Wicksteed, B.A. Mafod. Charles Clarke Birmingham. George Heaviside, B.A.. Coventry. David Maginnis, F.R.Hist.S. Stourbridge. John William Lake Warwick. Samuel Bache Birmingham. In 1865 the double lecture was discontinued, and Oldbury was included as one of the regular places of the Monthly Meeting. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MONTHLY MEETING OF PROTESTANT DISSENTING MINISTERS OF WARWICKSHIRE AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTIES, " The Monthly Meeting of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Warwiclcshire and the neighbouring Counties " was formed in the year The records of the earlier years of its existence are very scanty of information. It is considered probable that the meetings grew out of private meetings of three ministers, viz., Samuel Clark, a minister ( ) of the Old Meeting, Birmingham ; Thomas Robins, Minister ( ) of West Bromwich ; and John Cole, Minister ( ) of Wolverhampton, who met once a month at each other's homes for instructive conversation on literary and religious subjects, but without any public service, and they continued to meet till Mr. Clark's death in Mr. Robins afterwards removed to Daventry, and in 1775 succeeded Dr. Ashworth as principal of the Dissenting Academy of that place. The first of the monthly Meetings was held at West Bromwich on 7 May, 1782, " at Rev. Mr. isamuel] Brabrook's house," when several ministers assembled, and agreed to enter into the following resolutions :- " That we will meet together monthly for the purpose of mutual instruction and edification.... for public pra.yer and preaching in the morning at each other's places respectively. That in the afternoon we will more privately discuss some question of importance which was proposed the preceding meeting. That, in a boolr to be kept by W. Procter, minutes of each day's proceedings shall be entered." f-

214 Thanks to the care of the successive secretaries- William Procter, Alexander Paterson, William Bowen, Samuel Bache, John Gordon, David Maginnis, F.R.H~&.s., Charles Clarke, Samuel Fletcher Williams, Henry M'Kean, Arthur Ellis O'Connor, B.D., and Evan David Priestley Evans-minutes of every meeting have been kept, and the valuable series of minute books is in the custody of the secretary for the time being. This was an Arian fraternity, and discussed topics from the very first; it must not be mixed with the much older and now extinct Double Lectures at Dudley and Oldbury. The Centenary of the Monthly Meeting was celebrated on 13 December, 1882, at Birmingham, when an historical sketch was read at the morning meeting, in the lectureroom of the Church of the Messiah, by David Maginnis, F.R.Hist.S., followed by a public dinner under the presidency of Dr. Russell, J.P., and divine service in the evening in the Church of the Messiah, conducted by John Robberds, B.A., with sermon from S. Matt. xiii, 33, by Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M.A., of Manchester New College, London. The sketch, speeches and sermon were afterwards printed and circulated. The members of the Monthly Meeting to-day are :- Addison Alexander Charlesworth, minister since 1893 of Newhall Hill Church, Birmingham. William Joshua Clark, minister since 1885 of Hurst Street Domestic Mission, Bir~ningham. John Dale, living at Stratford-on-Avon without charge. David Davis, B.A., living at Evesham without charge. Rudolf Davis, B.A., minister since 1893 of Oat Street Meeting House, Evesham. Peter Dean, minister since 1875 of Old Meeting, Walsall. Henry Eachus, J.P., minister since 1865 of Old Meeting House, Coseley. Evan David Priestley Evans, Secretary, minister since 1890 of New Meeting House, Kidderminster. George Eyre Evans, living at Whitchurch, without charge, Henry Gow, B.A., minister since 1893 of Great Meeting, Leicester. Benjamin Kirkman Gray, minister since 1894 of High Street Chapel, Warwick. Edward Potter Hall, B.A., minister since 1894 of Park Lane Chapel, Cradley. John Harrison, Tveasuver, minister at large since 1895 in the Province. Henry Hill, minister since 1892 of Christchurch Chapel, Banbury. John Howard, minister since 1887 of Long Street Chapel, Atherstone, and Cole Hill, Tarnworth. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, M.A., minister since 1894 of Church of the Messiah, Birmingham. Edward William Lummis, B.A., minister since 1895 of Lodge Road, West Bromwich. Henry McKean, J.P., minister since 1858 of the Meeting House, Oldbury. Thomas Pipe, minister since 1891 of Lower Fazeley Street Mission, Birmingham. William George Price, minister since 1894 of Great Meeting, Hinckley. Arrowsmith Hyde Shelley, minister since 1893, of Old Meeting House, Dudley. James Christopher Street, minister since April, 1897, of High Street Church, Shrewsbury. Arthur William Timmis, minister since 1884 of Presbyterian Chapel, Stourbridge. Joseph Wood, minister since 1884 of Old Meeting Church, Birmingham. Alfred William Worthington, J.P., B.A., F.S.S., living at Stourbridge, without charge.

215 The following suggestions, respecting the meetings, revised and completed by the Sub-Committee, which met on Monday, May 28th, for that purpose, were finally adopted at the Ministers' Meeting at West Bromwich, on Wednesday, June 6th, 1894 :- ~.-That in addition to the conduct of the formal business- (a) Papers may be read on any subject connected with Religious Life and Thought ; (b) Services may be held at which a Sermon may be delivered ; (c) Topics of Public interest, or of immediate urgency may be considered; and any resolutions NOT of a party or sectarian character may be adopted. 2.-That 3.-That 4.-That the meetings shall commence with prayer. at least once a year the Ministers shall be invited to bring their wives, so that they shall share in the social and intellectual proceedings of the meeting. one of the meetings of the year be set apart for devotional purposes only, and that where it may be desired by those giving the invitation, the Communion Service may also be held in connection with the meeting. 5.-That, wherever practicable, an Evening Meeting of a public character shall be held. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SOME UNITARIAN AND OTHER PERIODICALS. First year of issue. "l London Sets markcd thus * are in my library.-g. E. E. Title. 17tj9.. Theological Repository," Jan., Jan., Jan., Jan., Jan., Jan., " Protestant Dissenter's Magazine " (London) " Universalists' Miscellany," London '' Universal Theological Magazine," London (a continuation of the Universalists' Miscellany ") Universal Theological Magazine and Impartial Review," London * " Monthly Repository," London l' Free Thinking Christians' Magazine, London *" Christian Reformer," London Last issue. year of Dec., Dec., Dec., Dec., Dec, Dec., Where copies can be consulted. London, British Museum, Essex Hall ; Oxford, Manches- Free ter College, Ref. Library. Manchester, London, British Museum, Essex Hall. London, British Museum, vols. 1-5, Essex Hall, Manchester, Cross St Chapel, Free Ref. Lib. London, Essex Mall ; Manchester, Free Ref. Lib., London, Essex Hall. London, British Museum, Essex Hall, Oxford, Manchester College ; Liverpool, Renshaw Street Chapel, Manchester, Cross St. Chapel, Free Reference Library. London, British Museum, Essex Hall; Liverpool, Renshaw Street Chapel. London, British Museum, Essex Hall ; Oxford, Manchester College ; Liverpool, Renshaw St. Chapel, , and ; Manchester. Cross St Chapel, Free Ref...l I ~ I ] l' l May, 1826 : sex Hall ; Manchester, Cross St Chapel, Free Reference Quarterly Register,'' London, sex Hall. Christian Pioneer," Glasgow London, Essex Hall Manchester, Cross St. chapel. 1 Christian Moderator," Lon London, British Museum,, don

216 First year of issue. I Title. Feb., I " Bible Christian," Belfast.. l Unitarian Chronicle and Companion to the Monthly Repository," London Unitarian Magazine and Chronicle," London ' / Last year of - Dec., Jan., I "Unitarian Baptist Advocate," / Oct., / London 9th July, 1842: * ( c The Inquirer," London..I In progress..! ' Prospective Review " (cpn- 1 tinuation of the " Christian 1 Teacher,") London l Feb., 1849 j * " Christian Pilot and Gospel, Moralist," London July, / "National Review " (continu-, ation of the "Prospective I Review "), London July, ! " Christian Freeman," London ' &'The Nonsubscriber," Belfast q May, ' " Unitarian Herald," Man- chester (amalgamated with Christian Life ") " Advocate of Unitarian Prin- " ciples Feb., l * (' Christian Unitarian,'' Bel- / fast ' In progress June, Jan., I Where copies can be consulted. London, British Museum, , Essex Hall, 1830, London, British Museum, E ~- sex Hall ; Manchester, Free Ref Lib London, British Museum, Essex Hall ; Manchester, Free Ref. Lib London, British Museum ; Manchester, Cross Street Chapel ; Shrewsbury, High Street Church. London, British Museum, Essex Hall ; Manchester, Cross St Chapel, Free Ref. Lib ; Liverpool, Renshaw Street Chapel, London, British Museum, Essex Hall. London, Essex Hall; Manchester, Free Ref. Lib. London, British Museum, Essex Hall ; Oxford, Manchester Coll, 11 vols., ; Liverpool, Renshaw Street Chapel, 10 vols., ; Manchester, Cross Sireet Chapel, 10 vols., , Free Ref Lib. London, Essex Hall. Nearly complete set, with Rees Jenkin Tones, Aberdare, minister there. London, British Museum, Essex Hall, Manchester, Cross Street Chapel. London, Essex Hall ; Oxford, Manchester Coll., Manchester, Free Ref. Lib London, British Museum, , Essex Hall ; Manchester, Free Ref. Lib, Jan, 1857, to Dec., 1861 London, Essex Hall, London, Essex Hall, Manchester. Memorial Hall, Free ~ef. Lib. London, British Museum London, Essex Hall, , Manchester, Cross Street Chapel. / First year of ~ssue. Title. l-~gar of issue. Where copies can be consulted, " The Truthseeker," London London, British Museum, , Essex Hall, ' 84 " Theological Review," Lon London, British Museun-, Esdon sex Hall, Oxford, Manchester Coll., Liverpool, Renshaw St. Chapel, ; Manchester. Cross Street Chapel, ~ ree Ref Lib Unitarian and Universalists' London, British Museum, Es- Missionary,'' Dundee sex Hall 20 May, 1876 " Christian Life," London.. London, Essex Hall. Dec, " Unitarian Magazine," Glas- - - Glasgow. St. Vincent Street gow / "Modern Review." London.. l / L:%?british Museum. Essex all ; Oxford, ~andhester Coll. ; Liverpool, University Coll. ; Manchester, Cross St. Chapel, Free Ref. Jan., * (' The Disciple," Belfast.. Dec., ((I:;nicle and Index" Jan., '' Christian Reformer," Lon- Dec., Jan., Jan., Oct., Jan., Jan., March, Aug., I * "East Sussex and West Kent Unitarian Magazine " * " Southern Unitarian Magazine " * " The Guild Messenger," London * '' The Coming Day," London " Light on the Way," Manchester * "The Seedsower," Birmingham " " Fellowship," Norw!ch.. * " Meeting Places m Our Father's Church " YEARLY * " British and Irish Unitarian I 1851 Almanack," London. r8p..,. *..The Unitarian Almanac," 1864 London I * The Unitarian Pocket Al- manac," London Festival Book," Guild of the Good Shepherd U H 1 Dec., 1887 Dec., 1889 In progress In progress In progress. In progress July, 1895 In progress In progress.. Manchester, 1886 Liverpool, T :l, LAW. London, Essex Hall. - London, Essex Hall ; Oxford, Manchester Colle~e : Liver- / pool. Unitarian 1Gtitute. - Manchester, Free Ref. Lib. London, British Museum, ; Manchester, Free 1 Ref. Lib., from 1873,. incom- - plete

217 -p- - First year of issue. = ".... ".. -. C v First year of Title. * " Festival Book," Guild of the Good Shephard * U U U Rochdale, * d6 Essex Hall Year Book," London, Essex Hall ; Ifan. " *'~'L.ond~ chester, Free Ref. Lib *"The Liverpool Unitarian Annual," Liverpool TRIENNIAL. * l' National Conference Report " M r, I n Last year of issue. London, 1889 Oldbury, 1890 London, 1891 Liverpool, 1882 Birmingham, 1885 Leeds, 1888 l Where copies can be consulted. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Jan., l * The Little Magazine " Dec., 1845 London, British Museum, * S I.*l % # " an., * " The Sunday School Penny ond don, British Museom, 1 Magazine'" Manchester ; Manchester, Cross Street Chapel. Jan., 1871 *" Sunday Stories for Home Dec., and School " 1 1 Manual " Jan., l Young Days " 'C Sunday School Teachers 1875 l I sex In progress. London, British Museum, Es- Hall. Oct., '" Teachers' Notes ".. Jan., * ' I Sunday School Helper " Jan Feb., l '1 Saviour, " Monthly Record" SOME CHURCH AND SCHOOL CALENDARS. - London, Essex Hall. Birmingham, Church of the Dec., Preceded by "Church of the Saviour Teachers' Magazine." Birmingham, Church of the monthly, discon- Messiah tinued July, 1871-Nov., 1873; Mr. Herbert New, Birming. Nottingham, " High Pavement and Peas Hill Chronicle " -z +- ISSUB Norwich, Octagon Chapel.. Jan., x873. Halifax, '' Northgate End Chronicle " Oct., Oct., June, June, Feb., Feb., Jan., Oct., July, Title. Liverpool, Renshaw St. Chapel * Whitchurch, Salop, "Record " i Last year of ~ssue. - In progress.. Francis England Millson, minister there 1872-, and Mr. Joe Sagar, chapel warden In progress Sept., Localised " Young Days." * I Kidderminster, " New Meet- In progress.. l Mr. Joseph Highfield, Kiddering Record " minster. London, Lit:! Portland St. In progress.. Chapel library. " Calendar * Liverpool, Mount Pleasant School library. Sunday Schools, The Helper " Burnley, Trafalgar Street " Monthly Calendar * Liverpool,?pe St. Church '' Calendar Halifax, "Northgate End Magazine " London, Wandsworth.... Oct., Where copies can be consulted. In progress.. Mr. J. S. Mackie, Burnley. In progress (irregu- Francis England Millson, minlar intervals) ister there In progress William George Tarrant, B.A., minister there Oct., * Rochdale, " Monthly Mes- In progress.. Thomas Perkins spedding, senger " minister there Nov., Bolton, Unity Church In progress.. Mar., 1888 (?)l Monton Church " Calendar " I l' Cal- Mr. H. A. Tovey, Bolton. endar " In progress.. Philip Martineau Higginson, 1 MA. In progress In progress., Warrington, Cairo St..... Mansfield, Old Meeting House " Kalendar " Oct., Bury, Bank S!. Sunday School In progress.. l - First series ( ) with Edgar Innes Fripp, B.A., minister there ; localises " Christian Freeman " from April, 1893 ; Mr. John Harrop White, Mansfield. Douglas Walmsley, B.A.. min. there : and in the " Calendar School lil;rar$ ' Nov., * Whitchurch, Salop. Church In progress.. Record-book of the Church ; of the Saviour " Chronicle " localises [' Seedsower " from March, Nov., l Richmond, Ormond Road In progress.. Silas Farrington, min. there '' Calendar " ' Belfast, and Congregation In progress.. (now All,:ouls' Church) " Kalendar Oct., / Cardiff, West Grove" Month- In progress.. I ly Record " Norwich, Octagon Chapel In progress.. Monthly Calendar -- " hlarch, * London, ~ensin~ton, Essex In progress.. Frank Kerry Freeston, min. Church " Calendar " there l Edgar Innes Fripp, B.A., min. there ; localises " Seedsower " from Oct, George St. Clair, min. there Mrs. Mottram, Norwich.