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Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...

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EVESHAM.<br />

OAT STREET MEETING-HOUSE.<br />

First meeting-place in room "back <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> High Street," <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> trust deed <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

which is dated 1696.<br />

Present Meeting-house opened, 1737.<br />

Restored and reopened, I I April, 1875.<br />

MINISTERS.<br />

John Higgs ...<br />

Francis Blackmore . . .<br />

Paul Cardale<br />

David J<strong>on</strong>es . . .<br />

Henry Procter . . .<br />

Charles Lloyd, LL. D.<br />

Benjamin Kingsbury<br />

Benjamin Davis ...<br />

Peter Charles . . .<br />

Thomas Davis ...<br />

William Williams, supply ..<br />

John Evans ... ...<br />

Timothy Davis . . . ".-<br />

John Calbraith Lunn, F. R. A. S.<br />

John Gord<strong>on</strong> ... . .<br />

Charles Henry Wellbeloved ..<br />

John Collins Odgers, B.A.<br />

Benjamin Lepard Green ..<br />

Michael Smith Dunbar, M. A.. . .<br />

Rudolf Davis, B.A. ...<br />

Shortly before his death (28 November, 1893), Mr. Herbert New, <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

Evesham, who had l<strong>on</strong>g been chairman <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> society in Oat Street, put<br />

toge<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r a few valuable notes respecting its history, and sent <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

author for use whenever he required <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m. They are here printed from<br />

his manuscript for <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> first time :-<br />

In 1696 a co~gregatzbn <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Protestant Dissenteys in Eveshanz (now ~@resented<br />

by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Oat Street coigrqati<strong>on</strong>, and called Presfiyterian) was 2:n possessi<strong>on</strong>, as

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