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