Woodwark, 1827; Rev. R. H. Smith, 1832; Rev. Robert Thompson, 1843; Rev. Thomas Joseph, 1847; Rev. Geo. Kettle, 1854; Rev. Henry Madgin, 1862. GREAT WAKERING.-Christopher Scott. He was admitted to the vicarage 17th November, 1644, apparently on the presentation of Juxon, bishop of London. He was first of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1639, and afterwards of Caius, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1640. His name appears among the subscribers to the 'Essex Teftimony' in 1648, and also to the 'Essex Watchword' in 1649. In 1650 he is returned as, a very able, preaching minifter.' Scott edited and published 'A Practical Commentary; or, an exposition in observations, reasons, and uses, upon the 1st General Epistle of John, by Mr. John Cotton, pastor of Boston, in New England.' Lond., 1656. He dates the epistle to the reader, 'From my study in Much Wakering, in Essex, October 15, 1655.' Cotton was of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and settled in Boston, in Lincolnshire. Here he married Elizabeth, daughter of James Horrocks, an excellent minifter, in Lancashire, and of the same family with Thomas Horrocks. After labouring at Boston for twenty years, Cotton was compelled to fly to New England. This was in 1633. Among his companions on the voyage was Thomas Hooker. On his arrival in America, he was shortly chosen co-pastor with John Wilson, at Boston. He kept up a constant correspondence with his old friends in England, and among others with Oliver Cromwell, and especially on the subject of the propagation of the gospel in America. There is a characteristic letter of Cromwell's, addressed to him in October, 1651, printed by Brooks, and also by Carlyle. Nathaniel Rogers was on terms of great intimacy with him, as also was Peter Bulkley, who composed an elegant Latin elegy on his death. Cotton died at Boston, New England, December 23, 1652. Cotton Mather was his grandson. In the Visitation Book of the archdeaconry, 1662, the minute is, Mr. Christopher Scott, vacat. rat. stat.' After his ejectment he removed, as it should appear, to Prittlewell. May 16, 1672, he took out a license to be a 'Presbyterian teacher, in the house of Robert Butler,' in this parish, and at the same date a license was granted to that house to be a 'Presbyterian meeting place.' Calamy says, he was a very worthy man.. Two of his successors in this living (probably Thomas Edwards and John Barton) did not think it beneath them to take instructions from him how to preach to their parishioners.' After his ejectment, Scott published 'The Saint's Priviledge; or, gain by dying.' Lond., 1673. 4to. This was a funeral sermon for Marjory, the wife of Captain Robert Fisher, to whom he addresses a prefatory epistle, dated from my study in Milton Hamlet, this 3rd Jan., 1672.' There is also another prefatory epistle addressed to 'Captain John Bradman, and Mrs. Sarah Bradman, relations to, Captain Richard Horrock, Mr. Israel Heath, Mr. Richard Fisher, brothers-in-law to, and Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, daughter-in-law to, Mrs. Marjory Fisher.' LITTLE WALTHAM.-John Harrison. We first meet with him at Great Waltham, where he succeeded Samuel Noell. He was inftituted to this rectory November 23, 1643. He was on the 'Classis' for Little Waltham in 1647, and there he also signed the Essex Testimony' in 1648. In 1650 he is reported as, an able, godly minifter.' Mr. Veley, to whose more than courtesy I am so greatly indebted, obliges me with the following copy of the inftitution of his successor, Thomas Aleyn. Decimo nono Jan'rii 1662, juxta mandatum Dni Gilberti London' Ep'i Emanavit commissio ad inducend' Thomam Aleyn, Cl'ricum, S. T. P. ad Rectoriam Eccl'iæ p'o'alis de Waltham p'va, in com' Essex' per non-subscriptionem ultimi incumbentis ibidem (secundum actum parliam' aut alio quocunq' modo) Ad quam ven' lem viru' Gulielmum Jones, de Greys Inn Ar' et Eliza'm ejus uxorem Guardianos (jure d'c'æ Elizabethae) cujusd' Arabella Aleyn, minoris filiæ unicæ et See Thomas Peck, p. 443; Lands. MSS. 459; Mather, Magnalia iii. c. i. ; Brooks, Lives of Puritans iii. 151; Carlyle's Cromwell ii. 356-359; License *506 William Powel, William Rathband. hæredis D'ni Edmundi Aleyn Baronetti def: veraeq' et indubit' ejusd 'Rectoriæ Patronisse p'ntatus extitit.' After his ejectment, Harrison removed to Pebmarsh, where, under date April 2, 1672, his house was licensed as a 'meeting house,' and he himself was also licensed as a teacher' in his own house. * LITTLE WARLEY.-William Powel. The return for this parish in 1650 is, 'Thimelby Holden, an able, godly minister.' From the parish register it appears that Holden was buried there January 6, 1652, and that he was succeeded by William Gants. Powel succeeded Gants at Michaelmas, 1653. There is but one entry relating to Powel personally: Enoch, filius Gulielmi Powel, rectoris de Warley pva, qui sepultus erat vicessimo quinto die Octobris, 1654.' The minute in the Visitation Book of the archdeaconry in 1662 is, 'Will. Powel, rect. va. rat. stat.' † SOUTH WEALD.-William Rathband. The living was sequestered from Samuel Baker, who was admitted to the rectory April 4, 1640, on the presentation of Juxon, bishop of London. Wood says of Baker, that he was M.A. of Arts of Christ's College, in Cambridge, and afterwards became a Puritanical preacher in London, and much followed; but being taken off from these courses, was made household chaplain to the bishop of London, and a creature of Dr. Laud, archbishop of Canterbury.' He had been rector of St. Margaret Pattens, in the city of London, which living he resigned in 1637. Besides his chaplaincy and the censorship of the press, he also held, at the date of his sequestration, the rectory of St. Mary Hill, London; the prebend of Totenhall, in the cathedral of St. Paul's; and another prebend at Canterbury, besides this vicarage at Weald. Not long before this, Richard Carpenter, 'having made a recantation sermon at Paul's, was angrily denyed the publication of it, per Dr. Baker; the reason, because the church of Rome and we are in a peaceable way, and Cal. Acc. 306; License Book, ante p. 340. Cal. Acc. 313. In the Continuation, p. 490, he is wrongly identified with John Powel who signed the 'Essex Testimony" in 1648. therefore not fitt to augment controversies.' The proceedings, in Baker's case, began in the House of Lords, April 28, 1643, when order was given to summon him to appear at the bar to answer the charges which had been alleged against him. On the day appointed, May 6, Baker not appearing, and affidavit being read of the service of the order, the Lords postponed the case for a week, and gave directions for a second order to be served upon him by their officer. On the 13th also, he failed to appear, when a third order was directed to be served upon him for the following Tuesday, and the Lords resolved that he should pay the expenses of the witnesses during the interval. On the 16th, Baker appeared, and confessed that 'he hath two livings, and hath two prebends, one of which is of Canterbury, where he is bound by his oath to reside three quarters of a year, and confesses he hath had some misfortune in licensing books, which he is sorry for.' The House then adjudged that, 'Dr. Baker should be sequestered from the profits and officiating in the parish church of South Weald, till the further pleasure of the House be known.' There is not a word thus far said of his other living at St. Mary Hill, nor have I met with any reference to his sequeftration there elsewhere. No appointment appears to have been made to South Weald until August 6, 1646,-more than three years after Baker's sequeftration 'during the pleasure of the House.' But on that day an order was issued for settling Nicholas Folkingham in the vicarage, which order was sent down to the Commons on the 3rd of September following. Folkingham's name appears on the 'Classis,' and also among the subscribers to the 'Essex Teftimony' in 1648, where it is plainly misprinted Farchingham. My friend, the Rev. H. P. Bowen, who was allowed free access to the registers by the courtesy of the present vicar, the Rev. C. a Belli, sends me copies of several entries relating to Folkingham, from which it appears that he was here as early as February, 1643. The return for 1650 reports, 'Mr. Goodwin, by order of the Committee for Plundered Minifters, is vicar.' The signature of Thomas Goodwin appears among the subscribers to the Effex Watchword,' in 1648, but simply as minifter of the word,' without any indication of residence. My friend also sends me copies of the following entries relating to him: 'Elizabeth Goodwin, daughter of Tho. Goodwin, baptized 2nd of December, 1651. Thomas Goodwin, sonne of Thomas Goodwin, was born ye 8th January, and baptized ye 17th of ye same. Jane Goodwin, daughter of Mr. Tho. Goodwin, minifter of this parish, and of Ellen, his wife, was born the 7th of June, and baptized the 21st of the same, 1657. Thomas Goodwin, minifter of Weald, buried September 6, 1658. Jane Goodwyn (sic), buryed November 10, 1658.' The Rev. C. a Belli himself obliges me with a copy of the inscription on the tablet which is erected to Goodwin's memory, at South Weald: S. M. | Thomae Goodwyn | In Artibus Magistri Collegii Johannensis | Cantabrigiensis socii olim Caleberrimi, hujus | Ecclesiæ Vicarii doctissimi, gravissimi | Desideratissimi | Obiit | Anno Dni 1658 | Sept. 4 | Si mea cum coelo valuissent vota, supremum | Tu mihi dixisses, Maxime Praeco, vale | Nunc, tua dum Claudo morientia lumina pro Te | Hoc, Mea Funebris Concio, carmen erit | Ingenui mores, Pietas, Facundia, Templi | Lumen, Chrifte, Tui, Clauditur hoc Tumido. | Sic flevit. dum amoris hoc et amicitiae | Monumentum posuit. | Johannes Leech.' Goodwin published, 'A Fair Prospect; shewing clearly the difference between things that are seen and things that are not seen; in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Hon. Lady Judith Barrington, at Knebworth, in Hertfordshire. By Tho. Goodwin, late fellow of St. John's College, in Cambridge, now minister of the gospel at South Weald, in Essex.' Lond., 1658, 4to. The epiftle dedicatory is dated Brentwood, Oct. 24, 1657. It should appear that Rathband succeeded to the vicarage on the death of Goodwin, although there are no traces of him in the parish regifter. He was a son of William Rathband, who wrote, 'A most grave and modest Refutation of the Errors of the Sect commonly called Brownifts;' a brother of Nathaniel Rathband, some time preacher at the cathedral, York, and whom Heywood speaks of as preaching a sermon |