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

Present chapel built during ministry .<strong>of</strong> Jol~n Jones.
Henry Oasland, M. A.
Edward Oasland . ..
Job Barret . . . . . .
John Reynolds ..
John Adams . . .
John Jones ...
Evan Jones
Edward Parry ...
Sz$#Zies ...
Let to Bnptists . . .
Original one built 1696-1700.
MINISTERS.
011 10 February, 1700, a deed was executed between Joseph Tyndall,
<strong>of</strong> Bewdley, mercer, and John Allen, <strong>of</strong> Bewdley, apo<strong>the</strong>cary, on <strong>the</strong> one
part ; and Jabez Reynoulds, shoemaker ; John Dovey, glover ; Joseph Carter,
Edward Perkins, Arthur Perkins, Arthur Radnor, all shoemakers, <strong>of</strong> Bewd-
ley ; Thomas ffaulkner, <strong>of</strong> Bewdley, combmaker ; and James Thornson, <strong>of</strong>
Ribbenhall, ropier, 013 <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r part. By this deed Tpndall and Allen
convey to <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs orre piece or paml <strong>of</strong> groz~lzd, contairri~zg 24 yards i?z derzgtlz
and 14 yards ifz firtaaVh, i?z U$$w Street, BewdZq~, which grognd Tyndall had
bought from one Jahn I.t7iZZis, <strong>of</strong> BewLZlcy, skianer and ??zaltstt.1; and on which
Tyndall had by and with 7;zong~s raised by a $i/fiZick coZZection <strong>of</strong> nnd from severnZ
pe~soiu, e?-.xted or built [~robnb') iiz 16961 n?z hoz~se 7cthich is now used fog, a
?i2eez'i7g-hoz~se for rel&ioz~s ze~orshz).
The witnesses to <strong>the</strong> signatures were-Henry Toye, Edward Osland
(sic), Obadiah Clare, and Edward Toye.
In James Scott's MSS.-to which reference will be freqcently made in
this book-he says that <strong>the</strong> certz9cak appointing Heizry OasZand nliazster <strong>of</strong>
HerudGey &ring tile Com?~zonwea~th is siiiG extant. Amongst this chapel's deeds
and o<strong>the</strong>r papers, which <strong>the</strong> author saw in <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Mr. W. H. Talbot,
solicitor, at Kidderminster, on 29 January, 1895, was this original parchment
testimonial <strong>of</strong> Henry Oasland's ordination in <strong>the</strong> Chu?-ch <strong>of</strong> BartJ20Z;7.?lten~