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History of / Dissenting Meeting-House , Bowl-Alley Lane , Hull .
Sir , Hull + Oct . 15 , 1818 . IN compliance with the suggestion of ray respected friend Mr . Turner , of Newcastle , in one of your former Volumes , [ VI . 166 ;] I send you a sketch of the History of the Dissenters ' Chapel , in Bowl-Alley Laue , | Hull .
Such narratives , accompanied with statements of the number of regular worshipers , and other particulars respecting the present state of our societies , cannot fail to interest some of your readers , and may furnish all with matter for profitable reflection on the comparative merits of the different
mocjes of conducting religious worship and instruction , which have at different periods been adopted amongst us . With warmest wishes for your success in advancing the cause of the pure gospel of Christ , I am yours , respectfully , GEORGE KENRICK .
The Chapel in Bowl Alley , belonging to the Presbyterian Dissenters , is considerably * ' the oldest in the town ^ but of w hat date does not appear by any authentic record hitherto met with . Mr . Samuel Charles was
chosen pastor of this congregation in l 66 £ . ' See the History of Kingstonupon-Huil , by the Rev . John TickelJ , 1796 . The earliest formed Dissenting Society in Hull , of the origin of which any account is preserved , is the
Baptists * Church in Dagger Lane , founded in 164 S . As that which is the subject of this sketch is acknowledged to be of older date than this , and no account cati be obtained of its origin , it seems probable that it is otie of the earliest establishments of the class of Dis- *
senters to which it belongs . Of Mr . Charles , who was one of the ever-to-be honoured 9000 ministers who sacrificed every prospect 6 f earthly honour , wealth and aggrandizement , for the sake of a good cowscience , ( whose praises will continue to resound in our churches , while our
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buildings shall continue to stand or our societies to e * ist , ) a highly interesting account is preserved in the first volume of Palmer ' s Nonconformists' Memorial , and is presented to the readers of the Repository in & somewhat abridged form , accompanied with a few observations .
Samuel Charles , M . A . of Corpas Christi CoL Cambridge , was born at Chesterfield , September 6 , 1633 , and ordained in 1655 . After residing a few years in Sir John Gell ' s family at Hopton , he was presented by Sir John-Curzon to the parish of Miekleoveiv € i
in Derbyshire . His early ministrations were affectionate , judicious and successful . He exercised a particular and constant watch over his own sou ] ,, especially in solemn duties , public or private / 1 The period of his conformity to the Church must have been
very short indeed , since he was chosen pastor at Hull seven years after bis taking orders , and he had spent some part of the interval as a Dissenting teacher at Belper , in Derbyshire . ** His principal settlements , " says the Nonconformists' Memorial , " were at Belper and Hull /* It appears not
improbable , though not specified either by Calamy or his Editor , that Mr . Charles was one of those " many hundred ministers '" who were ejected from their livings in 1660 , im mad irately after the restoration of Chafctes II ., " because they were in sequestrations where others had been cast 9
out by the parliament / Introduction , p . 21 . He observed the day of his ejection from his living as a fast all his life after . He viewed conformity in such a light , as to express his persuasion , that such violence would it have done
to his conscience , that if he had conformed , ha could not have been saved * When he left his parsonage-house , he wrote thus in his diary : ** For ttiy salrty O Lord , I have left my house
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/1/
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