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Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches (Vol. iii., p. 370.).
—I forward extracts from the Registers of the parish of Saint Benedict in this town relating to the baptism of Dissenters. (Mr. Hussey, mentioned in several of the entries, was Joseph Hussey, minister of a Dissenting congregation here from 1691 to 1720. His meeting-house on Hog Hill (now St. Andrew's Hill) in this town was pillaged by a Jacobite mob, 29th May, 1716. He died in London in 1726, and was the author of several works, which are now very scarce.)
"1697. October 14th. William the Son of Richard Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife was baptiz'd in a Private Congregation by Mr. Hussey in ye name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Witnesses, Robert Wilson, Richd. Jardine.
"1698. Henery the Son of John and Sarah Shipp was baptized in a Private Congregation by Mr. Hussey December 1. Elisabeth the Daughter of Richard and Elisabeth Jardine was born ye twenty-first day of January and baptized the second day of February 1698-9 in a Private Congregation.
"1700. Walter the Son of Richard and Elisabeth Jardine born July 23 and said to be baptized in a Separate Congregation by Mr. Hussey Aug. 20.
"1701. Elisabeth Daughter of Richard Jardine and Elisabeth his wife born October 7. and said to be baptized at a Private Congregation Novemb. 3d.
"1702. June 22. Miram the Son of Thomas Short and Mary his Wife said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation. Jane the Daughter of Richard Jardine and Elizabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation Dec. 21.
"1703. John the Son of Alexander Jardine and Elisabeth his Wife said to be baptized at a Separate Congregation, Mar. 31.