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Histoi * y ofthe Presbyterian Congregation in Lincoln *
THE principal person who laid the ground of Protestant Dissent at Lincoln , was Edward Reyner , M . A ,, who was ejected from the Church of St . Peter ' s at Arches , in
this city , on the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662 . He had been long settled at Lincoln , was a popular preacher , and a man of considerable learning and talents . * After the rigorous treatment of the Nonconformists had abated , at the
latter end of the reign of Charles IL , Mr . Michael Drake , who had been ejected from the living of Pickworth , near Folkingham , and had retired to a mean habitation at Fulbeck , came every Sunday to preach to a few people at the house of Mr . Daniel Disney ,
at Lincoln , in the parish of St . Peter ' s at Goats , now ( May , 1818 ) Mr . Hett ' s . In the following reign , when the Dissenters had more liberty , Mr . Drake removed with his family to Lincoln , and superintended a congregation which was very inconsiderable ,
and raised him , even with the patronage of the Disneys , but the small sum of £ 15 . per year . However , his preaching seems to have been effectual in strengthening the cause of Dissent at Lincoln , as the society some years after the Revolution became
more numerous and respectable . Mr . Drake was born at Bradford in Yorkshire , and was a member of St . John ' s College , Cambridge . In the year 1645 , Sir William Armyn , & gentleman who favoured the reforming party , presented him to the rectory of Pickworth , near Folkingham , on the resignation of Mr . Weld , 1 1 * ¦ - mmmmm V ^* m ^* " » ' * m ^ mm i » ¦ ¦ i i ^ ^ , 1 ¦¦ ninn i ^ hwi wh m > m \ H' i ¦ ¦ nh » ¦»! m » w h mi nmmtm ^ mmmt ^ 'm + * mm I ¦ 1 * See PalinerY Notion . Mem . 2 nd Ed . 11 . 421- ^ 427 . Voi « . xir . 2 a
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a person of considerable note amongst the Puritan clergy , and who on the breaking out of the war retired into the associated counties , a ^ id at last fixed himself in Suffolk .
Palmer , in his Nonconformists * Me * morial , ( II . 428 , ) says of Mr . Drake * that €€ he was a truly excellent and amiable person * In his friendship he was most hearty , sincere and constant ; in his preaching and praying exceedingly affectionate and fervent $ in his life very holy and unblameabJe ; in his whole conduct he manifested
more than ordinary simplicity and integrity . He was a man of great meekness and moderation , affability and courteousness , humility and selfdenial . He was remarkable for his carefulness to abstain from the
appearance of evil , and patiently laborious in the gospel ; an excellent Hebrician and scripture preacher . He was so unexceptionable , upon all accounts , that they who used to inveigh most freely against Dissenters , had not a word to . say against him .
He seems to have quite deserved this character , for , on his retiring to Fulbeck \ in the year 1662 , he was treated with great respect by Sir Francis Fane , who was an old cavalier and as steady a supporter of the
hierarchy and-, ceremonies as any man living . Yet Sir Francis conversed very freely with him , and once told him that the clergy of the Church of England had the worst luck of any in the world , for in all other countries
and religio n * they were held in estimation , but here they were under contempt . Mr . Drake continued a Dissenter to his death ; but his 3011 Joshua Drake conformed , and accepted the vicarage of Swinderby in 1092 , on the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/1/
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