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    Protestant Dissenting Churches in Cambridgeshire . 625

    university occasioned much talk and some inquiry in the town's folks . Secondly , tbe preaching of the Puritans in the parish churches ; in earlier days ,

    [ rsyo ] Cartwright of Trinity , Chidderton of Queen % -and Preston and Clarke of King ' s : and in later times , [ 1630 ] Dr . Goodwin and Dr . Sibbs , who preached at Trinity Chqrch , Shelly * of Jesus , who was vicar of All

    Saints , and many more of note in those days , diffused the principles of the Puritans through the town . Thirdly , the private * vtsttsy fasting , praying , and expounding exercises of many university men in the houses of the inhabitants of

    the town . These were the means , in the hand of God , of disseminating the principles of nonconformity , and of preparing multitudes of people for the open profession of it in the time of the civil

    war . The Cambridge Nonconformists were « mixture of four sorts . The largest part were for independant church government ; of which sort there were many ac Cambridge . A second sort were ftfr a Presbyterian government : these were not numerous , but they were rich . In 1689 they licensed two meeting-houses for divine service ; and six private houses in Cambridge for the purpose of private meeting , of prayer , & c . They were in one certificate , which is dated August jd , 1689 , signed William Baron , town

    clerk * A third sort were Baptists ; these at Cambridge were mixed with the Independants till 17 x 6 , when they also formed a separate church . There was a fburtfr sort under the direction of a Mr . I > avis , f a Welshman , who met separately

    at Cambridge , but where I cannot learn , nor what became of them , though itisprobable they afterwards joined with Mr . Hus 8 cjr *! g people . I I have seen a letter © i Mr , Waite s to Mr . Hussey ' s church , dated 169 a , in which he endeavours to guard them against Mr . Davis ' s Antinomianisrru as lie calls his doctrine , and

    calls his meeting pest-house . The three first dinTered from each other only in dlsstpl ' tn '* ; but the last differed from all the

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    rest in doctrine . In discipline they were lndependants . The lndependants met in Green-street , and the Presbyterians on Ho£ -HH 1 . The first settled Mr . Taylor , vrho hud been ejected from St . Edmonds Bury for their pastor ; and the last were supplied by neighbouring ministers ,

    particularly Mr . Billio of St . Ires , and others , till Thursday November 19 th , 1691 , when they settled for their pastor the Rev . Mr Joseph Hussey . The church then consisted of seventy--six members ; twenty-four men , and tffe rest women : and- on occasion of Mr .

    Hussey ssettlement , the Rev . Mr . Scanderet of Haverhill preached , and Mr . Biilio of St . Ivcs , and Mr . King of Wellingborough prayed . Mr . Hussey , as appears from his own manuscripts , was born March 31 st , 1660 , at Fordingbrid ^ e , in Hampshire , and received his first tuition under the

    Rev . Robert Whitaker , who had been ejected from his fellowship in Magdaten College 9 Cambridge , in 1662 , and at that time lived at Fordingbridge . When he was of proper ag-e , he was sent to the Academy at Newington Green ^ which was then under the direction of

    the famous Mr . Charles . Moreton ; and when he had finished his studies , he preached his first sermon in Mr , J

    enkins ' s Meeting-house , in Jewin street , . A ' London , ugust i ^ Ji , 1681 , and became domestic chaplain to Mrs . Powell , afterwards Lady Thompson , at

    Clapham . Here he continued preaching occasionally till 1683 , wheu he became chaplain to Sir Jonathan Keate , at thz Hoo , Hertfordshire , where he continued preaching constantly till May aoth , 16 S 8 . In the summer of 1680 , Mr .

    Hussey removed to Si & sufernes , in Coddicote parish , Herts , at which place , and at Maiden Croft , near Hitchen , he preachcdjtill his removal to Cambridge , that I * till 1691 . Mr . Huascy was ordained by the presbytery at Dr . Annesley ' * Meetinghouse itt Spittle Fields , London , Get . 26 th 1688 , in the presence of six

    Prcs-• Great grandfather of Mr . Robinson , the present Baptist minister at Cambridge . -f * He was afterwards pastor of Rothwell or RowelJ , Northamptonshire , and published Hymns , whjcl \ were re-published with a preface by the late Dr , C > ill . f Husseir add Taylor protested first against Davis , but some years after rjusscy went into Da via * * opinions See Hussey * » Glory ofGkrut ' . p . 313 .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/5/