Hi all,
Why does nobody like the Quakers,?
Shropshire: - Parish Registers, Nonconformist and Roman Catholic Registers
Shrewsbury High Street Church Register.
Notes on the Church and Ministers.
Congregation and Buildings.
Sep 1684 "In the morning the Prisbyterian preachers, John Brian, Francis Tallents, preachers at Oliver's Chappell in the High Streete, and Mr. Rowland Huntt, Doctor Jackson, Doctor of Physick, Daniel Jenks, ironmonger, Joseph Pearson, cutler, presented him [King James H] with a purse of gold, supposed to be £100, and were freely accepted, butt still lying the obligation on them to chuse such members for next Parliament as should be for takeing of the penall laws and test, and to that end he left behinde him William Pen, chiefe and head of the quakers, who began to speake att Mardoll head; butt the rable supposing what hee would be att, the mobb gave a shoutt and over bawled him, so hee desisted and got his way, the mobb knocking the bulks as he passed." Oliver's Chapel was so-called after Thomas Oliver, a turner, who lived in the house. Cf. a small quarto volume written on paper of the time of James I, penes Stanley Leighton, Esquire, M.P., and noted by Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte in the Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission dealing with the library at Sweeney Hall.
25 Oct 1691 Meeting-house in High Street opened for public worship. Mr. Tallents caused the following inscription to be painted on the walls, where it is retained until this day. "This place was not built for a faction or a party, but to promote repentance and faith in communion with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made Heaven and Earth."
06 Jul 1715 "At night, our meeting-house was pulled down. The magistrates did little or nothing to prevent it." Cf. Memoirs of John Reynolds, London, 1735.
12 Mar 1885 Building restored, enlarged and re-opened; preacher, Rev. Henry William Crosskey, LL.D. (Glas.), of Birmingham.
Shades of Wembly here.
All the best.
Pete.
