Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.Coleman, Thomas
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Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.
Coleman, Thomas
Clergy -- England -- Northamptonshire; Independent churches -- England -- Northamptonshire; Puritans -- England -- Northamptonshire
This is the second pastor, as recorded in Baker's history of this
county. But in the early history of the Church at West End,
Wellingborough, we find the following notice of a Mr. Saywell, who
appears to have been minister at Floor and Weedon: "We ordered a letter
to the Church at Floor, with our judgment that Mr. Saywell was a member
and an officer there, and ought to abide till his ministry was
fulfilled. We ordered another to the Church at Weedon, to satisfy them
with it, and to encourage them to wait with patience." This person must
have been about the second pastor that was placed over them.
Mr. Samuel Braybrook, another Daventry student, is recorded as
succeeding Mr. Howe, and as afterwards settling at Rendham, in Suffolk.
Then we find the names of Mr. John Offord and Mr. Phares; and then Mr.
William Severn, concerning whom we are informed "that he was a native of
Nottingham; at an early age became a popular preacher among the
Methodists; was for two years a travelling associate with their
celebrated founder, John Wesley. But his sentiments undergoing a change,
he went to study divinity at Edinburgh, on leaving which University he
accepted an invitation to this society, from whence he removed to
Welford in 1782, afterwards to Hinckley, in Leicestershire, where he
embraced Unitarianism. He died at Hull, in June, 1813, in his
fifty-ninth year."
After this, we have the name of Mr. Renfrew; and after him, Mr. Evan
Johns, who removed to Welford; then Mr. T. Spencer, who was appointed in
1790, and resigned in a few years after.
Mr. Joseph Gronow was chosen to succeed Mr. Spencer. He was ordained
April 27th, 1797, when the Rev. Messrs. Chipperfield, Wood, Horsey,
Bicknell, Toller, and Denny engaged in the several parts of the service.
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