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.

by Thomas Coleman

APPENDIX.

I.

The following statements will show the amount of money that has been expended on the Chapels, School-rooms, Ministers' Houses, &c., in connexion with the Independent denomination in Northamptonshire, during little more than the last quarter of a century.

	£	s.	d.
Northhampton—
Castle Hill—New School-rooms and improvements in the Chapel, 1825-1852	1,400	0	0
King Street—New School-rooms	336	6	5
Commercial Street—New Chapel, galleries and organ, new School-rooms, 1829-1851	3,800	0	0
Rowell—Improvements in the Chapel, 1852	800	0	0
Kettering—New School-rooms and improvements in the Chapel, 1849.	1,400	0	0
Harborough—New Chapel and new School-room, 1844-1850	3,230	0	0
Ashley—Improvements in the Chapel and Minister's House, 1827-1832	400	0	0
Wellingborough—
Cheese Lane—New School-rooms, 1850	300	0	0
Salem Chapel—New School-rooms, 1850	300	0	0
Weedon Beck—New School-room, improvements in the Chapel	235	0	0
Long Buckby—Chapel enlarged, new School-room, 1819-1825	350	0	0
Potterspury—New School-rooms	208	17	0
Potterspury—Yardley Gobion, new Chapel	368	4	10½
Yardley Hastings—New School-rooms	400	0	0
Brigstock—Minister's House, improvements in the Chapel	456	12	9
Yelvertoft—Chapel enlarged, new School-rooms	226	0	0
Wollaston—New vestry, improvements in the Chapel, Minister's House	645	4	3
Carried forward	£14,856	5	3½

	£	s.	d.
Brought forward	14,856	5	3½
Peterborough—New School-room, galleries in the Chapel, 1834-1848	350	0	0
Towcester—New Chapel and School-rooms, 1846	1,134	3	10
Old—Improvements in the Chapel and premises, 1852	60	0	0
Brackley—New Chapel, 1836	650	0	0
Paulerspury—New Chapel, vestry, galleries, and School-rooms, 1826-1850	606	12	0
King's Cliffe—New Chapel and School-room	500	0	0
Nassington—New Chapel	300	0	0
Castor—New Chapel	260	0	0
Middleton—New Chapel, 1844; School-room, 1852	400	0	0
Broughton—New Chapel	100	0	0
	£19,217	1	11½

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II.
THE NUMBER OF COMMUNICANTS AND
SABBATH-SCHOOL CHILDREN.

	Communicants.	Children.
Northampton, Castle Hill	150	300
Northampton, King's Street	72	95
Northampton, Commercial Street	160	400
Rowell	130	320
Kettering	200	280
Harborough	163	260
Ashley and Wilbarston	56	60
Welford	80	130
Creaton	60	80
Daventry	94	190
Wellingborough, Cheese Lane	70	190
Wellingborough, West End	37	84
Wellingborough, Salem	100	200
Oundle	70	120
Weedon Beck	80	125
Long Buckby	50	100
Potterspury	65	130
Yardley Hastings	116	260
Kilsby and Crick	60	at Crick 35
	——	——
Carried forward	1,813	3,359

	Communicants.	Children.
Brought forward	1,813	3,359
Brigstock	60	110
Weldon and Corby	27	75
Yelvertoft	80	130
Wollaston	41	about 50
Peterborough	120	200
Towcester	50	110
Old	26	25
Everdon		30
Brackley	33	50
Byfield	33	30
Paulerspury	72	159
King's Cliffe and Nassington	71	200
Borough Fen	27	75
Middleton		100
	——	——
	2,453	4,703

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III.
PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

There is a Society in connexion with the Independent Churches, bearing the title of "The Provident Society for the Relief of Aged and Afflicted Ministers and their Families in the County of Northampton and its Connexions."

This Society was established in the year 1811: its funds at the present time amount to about £6,400, and they are receiving a small increase by annual collections and subscriptions, the interest of the funds being applied to the relief of the claimants.

In the year 1817, about six years after its establishment, the first claims were made; since that time, the sum of nearly £5,000 has been distributed to ministers and to the families of ministers who were members. The importance of this Society is amply proved by the extent of relief that claimants have received from its funds. Its management is conducted entirely free of expense, and it will be capable of rendering efficient aid to all its members who, in accordance with its rules, present their case for assistance at the annual meetings of its members.

IV.

The following list contains the names of the villages in the County that are supplied with Sabbath evening services, chiefly by the Independent Churches. Some of the villages have an afternoon service on the Sabbath, and some of them an occasional service on a week evening. The list is not to be regarded as quite complete. In some instances, the Independents unite with other denominations in supplying the villages in their vicinity.

Alderton.	Loddington.
Barby.	Mears Ashby.
Bowden, Great.	Middleton.
Bozeat.	Newborough.
Broughton.	Orlingbury.
Cold Ashby.	Oxendon.
Cransley.	Peakirk.
Doddington.	Rockingham.
Draughton.	Scaldwell.
East Haddon.	South Kilworth.
Farndon.	Sutton Bassett.
Finedon.	Swinford.
Floor.	Tansor.
Geddington.	Thorpe.
Glapthorne.	Weston by Welland.
Glinton.	Welham.
Grafton Regis.	Warkton.
Great Oakley.	Wilby.
Lubenham.	Yardley Gobion.

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