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On the authority of the accounts lie has received from some of his more aged hearers , he informs me ^ that by the Bartholomew Act a minister was ejected from the Park Chapel , * near Liverpool ;
which from that time , however , has continued in the possession of the Nonconformists . They were , originally , of the Presbyterian denomination ; and their numbers increasing by a considerable accession of new members from
Liverpool , it was judged proper to erect a chapel in that town . When it was finished , it was left to the option of the minister of the Park Chapel , to continue there , or to remove to the town with that part
of the congregation , which proposed to hold their religious assemblies in the chapel lately built there . He preferred staying at Park ; and the first minister of the new chapel , it is thought , was
the learned Dr . Henry Winder , author of The History of Religious Knowledge , in two volumes 4 to . f > The chapel was afterwards sold , and a larger place , for religious worship , was built in Benn ' s Gardens : in which Dr . Winder
continued his ministerial services . To him succeeded Mr . Henderson , who afterwards conformed , and took the degree of . docjtor . He was followed by Dr . Enfielcj , on whose removal to Warriiigton , Mr . Lewi | i , the present worthy pastor , settled with the
congrega-* Or , according to Dr . Calamy , ( Palmer ' s Abridgment , vol . ii . p . 106 . I 775- ) Torkscath Park Chapel . Mr . Thomas Compton , M . A . born at Great Leaver , and educated at Manchester School , afterwards a student in Oxford University a man of excellent abilities and good elocution , was minister of it when the Bartholomew Act took place , in x 66 & . As the chapel was some -way privileged , he continued to enjoy the liberty of it after that act of uniformity , He aftervvard $ removed tiptek ^ and died at Manchester , Sef . a , 1699 , agedfr 4 . Mr . JoflP Kenion was minister , about the year 1715 , of the Chapel at Park . f He removed JranTunlty to Liverpool , in 1718 *
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tion . Previously to the formation of this Presbyterian Society , there was an Independent congregation , whose meeting-house was situated in Kage Street ., Gfthis congregation , Mr . Brekell was the pas - ton He was succeeded in this
character by Mr . Taylor , the grandson of that learned and liberal divine , Dr . John Taylor , of Norwich . On his removal to Dublin , Mr . Yates was chosen pastor , and still sustains that relation to it , with no small degree of reputation and influence .
The author of the Memoirs of Mr . Bourn , finds that he has much disappointed expectation , by passing over , without any biographical tribute of respect , the name of an excellent character , who succeeded Mr . Bourn in his
ministerial services to the congre - gations of Birmingham and Cosely . He had drawn up a short eulogium , but laid it aside out of
deference to the delicate scruples ef some , who are governed by the absolute and modest injunction of the relative and friend , that no notice whatever should be taken
of his character , or even of his decease . Such injunctions can have only a personal and temporary force . They can not bind those to whom they were not given . The following short biographical sketch to the memory of Mr . H&wkes , asks a place in the Monthly Repository , as-
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• 58 Dr . Toulmin on his Memoirs of Bourtt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/8/
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