For a long period after the revolution, the nonconformists, bleeding with the persecution of ages, sank into a premature and too protracted slumber. But they have gradually aroused themselves, and are engaging in the assertion of their rights with increasing vigour. Nor will their claims cease to be reiterated, till in the affairs of the soul, “ABSOLUTE LIBERTY, JUST AND TRUE LIBERTY, EQUAL AND IMPARTIAL LIBERTY,” shall have become the possession of every British subject.
SUMMARY OF MINISTERS.
| PASTORS. | SUPPLIES. | |
| John Clarke (?) | 1653–1656 | |
| Robert Ottee | 1656–1689 | |
| Joseph Tate | 1691–1694 | |
| John Killinghall | 1697–1699 | |
| William Nokes | 1703(?)–1710 | |
| Edmund Spencer | 1711–1736(?) | |
| Thomas Tingey | 1736–1749 | |
| William Lincoln | 1749–1757 | |
| John Hurrion | 1757–1758 | |
| Nicholas Phené | 1758–1760 | |
| John Fell | 1762–1770 | |
| Baxter (?) Cole | 1771 | |
| Joseph Heptinstall | 1773–1802 | 1771–1773 |
| Isaac Sloper | 1803–1834 | 1802–1803 |
| Thomas Morell | 1832–1833 | |
| John Flower | 1834– |
INDEX.
Abbot, [102].
Adkins, [10].
After, [73].
Archer, [233].