MINUTE BOOK. OF THE WIRKSWORTH CI. I 7 I 



2 I st day of the next moneth being the Classis usuall meeting day & also to 

 manage the busines of the Ordinacon &c. And likewise it is this day voted 

 that M r John Otefield preach the Ordination Sermon the said 21 st day of the 

 next moneth. 



Mr Watkinson this day moderating ended with prayer. 



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Wirkesworth Classis 1 ( These psent at the Classicall meeting 



in the Countey of Darbey v < holden at Crich the said 21 st day of 



June 21 st 1653 ) ( June 1653 viz' 



Ministers Others 



( Watkinson moderator x / 



Coates 



Shelmerdine M r John Sclat r 



Martin Topham Richard Varden 



( Tort' \ I Edward Allen 



Pole Robert Newton 



Otefiekl John Sutton 



Myles 

 ^ Moore Coke scb / \ 



M r Peter Watkinson being Moderaf began with prayer. 

 After M r Henrie Allsopp M r Josiah Winston & M r Thomas Leadbeater 

 aforesaid exhibited their Theses formerly given them by the Classis, which 

 being p'used & approved by the Classis, they also maintained a dispute (each of 

 them) upon the aforesaid Questions ; wherein also they gave good satisfaction : 

 Whereupon the Classis went unto the Congregation where M r Otefield Pastor 

 of the Church att Carsington preached the Ordinacon Sermon, which ended 

 the said Moderator demanded the Questions of the aforesaid M r Henrie Allsopp 

 M r Josiah Whiston & M r Thomas Leadbeat' required to be demanded of them 

 by the ordinance for ordination of Minist r of the 28th of August 1646, who 

 (each of them) publicklie answered unto all the said Questions : & then were 

 they severally ordained by prayer & imposicon of hands. 



The said moderator made the Exhortation, concluded with prayer and the 

 blessing. 



After the Congregation dismissed Lres of Ordination were signed by the 

 Ordainers and delivered unto them by the scbe. 



The several papers of their Testimonials are remaining in the custodie of the 

 Scbe & their Theses are in the hands of the said moderator. 



ftP Joseph Trueman,* BacheP of Artes & late Student of Jesus Colledge in 



* Joseph Trueman, B.D., was ordained as assisiant minister at S. Peter's, 

 Nottingham. He soon afterwards became minister at Cromwell in that 

 county, where he remained till his ejection in 1662. Calamy says much of his 

 remarkable abilities as a scholar. His nonconformity was of a mild character, 

 and he was on friendly terms with Archbishop Tillotson and Bishop 

 Stillingfleet. He died in 167 1. 



