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p'used & approved he also maintained a dispute upon the aforesd question & ex- 

 pounded diverse scriptures proposed by several members of the Classis wherein 

 he gave good satisfaction, w ch was voted accordingly. 



There appeared this day M r Anthony Wood, late of Emmanuel Colledge 

 in Cambridge, Student in Divinitie, to be ordained a presbyt" who was 

 ordered to bring with him the next meeting of the Presbyterie his Testimoniale 

 & Tytle ; and likewise the next meeting of the Classicall Presbytry to preach. 



It was this day ordered that the next Classical fast should be kept at 

 Pentridge, where and when Mr. Robert Porter is desired to have two sermons 

 p'ached. 



Ordered that Mr. Robrt Porter be continued Moderator. And this day 

 he being Moderator ended with prayer. 



These pnte at the Classicall meeting the 

 said 20 th day of Januarie, 1651. 



Wirkesworth Classis \ 

 in Com. Derbise, > 

 Jan : 20, 1651. ) 



Minist" Others 



Port' Moderator \ /Edward Allen 



Coates* Richard Varden 



Watkinsonf Gilbert Wallis 



M r I Shelm'dine ( Germane Buxton 



Martin Topham Richard Buxton de Bradbourne 



Otefield William JessoppJ 

 s Myles 



Richard Buxton, another elder of the Bradbourn Presbytery, and a younger 

 brother of German Buxton ; Richard Buxton, elder of the Carsington 

 Presbyteiy, whom we believe to have been a son of German Buxton, by his 

 wife Millicent, daughter of John Burton, of Carsington ; and Henry Buxton, 

 of Millhouse, elder of the Wirksworth Presbytery, of whose connection with 

 the rest of the family we are not well assured. 



++ John Sclater (or Slater) was an elder of the Hognaston Presbytery. 

 He seems to have been a well-to-do yeoman-landowner and usually has "Mr." 

 affixed to his name. For an action brought against him in 1668 for non- 

 payment of tithes, see Churches of Derbyshire, vol. ii. p. 490. 



XX William Storer was an elder of the Wirksworth Presbytery. 



§§ Samuel Hieron was presented to the benefice of Shirley in 1657, we do 

 not know where he previously served, but probably somewhere within the 

 jurisdiction of the Wirksworth Classis. He was ejected from Shirley in 1662, 

 and died on March 24th, 1687. Samuel was not near so eminent as his 

 brother, John Hieron, of Breadsall. Calamy says of him : — "He made no 

 great figure in the world, but was an honest man and a useful preacher." 



* Peter Coates (or Cotes) obtained the benefice of South Winfield in 1646, 

 on the presentation of Christian, Countess of Devonshire. Though so ardent 

 a Presbyterian as to be oftener chosen Moderator of the Wirksworth Classis 

 than any other minister, his principles evaporated at the Restoration, and being 

 episcopally ordained by Bishop Hacket, he retained his vicarage until his 

 death, which occurred on Jan. 26th, 1675, in the 81st year of his age. There 



