"In 1728, the congregation purchased a house in Sheaf Street for the residence of the minister, which was rebuilt by subscription at the time Dr. Ashworth erected the adjoining house for the academy. The Meeting House, which stands in the minister's yard, is approached from the street through a gateway, and is a substantial stone building, 42 feet long by 42 feet wide." It has now three galleries. During the ministry of the present pastor, new school-rooms have been erected. The present number of communicants is 94. There are 190 children in the Sabbath-schools. There are some endowments connected with this place; one, of L12 per annum, towards the support of a Charity-school for boys and girls. CHAPTER IX. MEMORIALS OF THE INDEPENDENT CHURCHES IN WELLINGBOROUGH. SECTION 1.--THE CHURCH AT CHEESE LANE. Where the events relating to the early history of a community have not been put upon record about the time they occurred, or where the records, when made, have been subsequently neglected and lost, it becomes scarcely possible to discover its origin, or to obtain any correct information relating to its progress. This is the case, we regret to state, with the Independent Church, Cheese Lane, Wellingborough; it appears to be scarcely possible now to discover the date of its origin, or the circumstances under which it was formed. In Wellingborough and its vicinity there were ministers of Christ, 190 years ago, who belonged to that noble band of worthies who renounced their worldly prospects in connexion with the Church by law established, rather than violate the dictates of conscience, on the passing of the Act of Uniformity in the year 1662.