Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...
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CRADLEY.<br />
PARK LANE CHAPEL, FORMERLY PENSNET MEETING-HOUSE,<br />
Present building, opened 15 May, 1796.<br />
First Meeting-house, in Pensnet Meadow, opened 1707, burnt 1715.<br />
Sec<strong>on</strong>d Meeting-house, same site, opened 1716, closed 8 May, 1796.<br />
MINISTERS.<br />
Josiah Basset ...<br />
Joseph Fownes ...<br />
Noah J<strong>on</strong>es ... ...<br />
Joseph Baker ..<<br />
James Scott ...<br />
Benjamin Carpenter ...<br />
Thomas Warren, assistant ...<br />
William Bowen, M.A. ...<br />
William Cochrane ... ...<br />
John James Wright, assistant<br />
James Crossley ...<br />
Arthur Ellis O'C<strong>on</strong>nor, B.D. ...<br />
Edward Potter Hall ...<br />
The two men principally instrumental in founding this society were,<br />
according to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Rev. Richard Witt<strong>on</strong>, <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> West Bromwich (1735)~ <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Rev.<br />
Henry Oasland, M.A., <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Bewdley, and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Rev. H. Hickman, who resided at<br />
Birmingham, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> s<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Rev. Henry Hickman, B.D., <strong>on</strong>e <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> ejected<br />
ministers, who lived for some time privately in Worcestershire, and was<br />
afterwards minister <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> English c<strong>on</strong>gregati<strong>on</strong> at Leyden.<br />
In 1704 <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Rev. John Godley, <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Walsall, bought from John Mansel,<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Ne<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rend, a field called Pensnet Meadow, in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> parish <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Kingswin-<br />
ford, Stafford, for <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> sum <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> &24, raised by voluntary c<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong>s, for<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> express purpose <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> erecting a place <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> worship. The building was