l8o MINUTE BOOK OF THE WIRKSWORTH CLASSIS. 



the second Thursday in Februarie next, when and where M r Thomas Shelmer- 

 dine Pastor of the Church at Matlocke & M r Samuel Charles,* Teacher of the 

 word at Kniveton are to preach. 



Voted, that John Run yard who is a ruling Elder ,of the congregaton of 

 Wirkesworth be also register of this Classis. 



Ordered that M r Edward Pole, Pastor of the Church at Bonteshall be 

 continued Moderator the next Classical meeting. 



M r Peter Watkinson pastor of the church at Kirk Ireton, being Moderator 

 this day ended with praier. 



John Rudyard, Scribe. 



Mr. 



Wirkesworth Classis 1 [ 



in the countie of Darby \ J Those p'sent at the Classicall Meeting the said 

 Februarie 20, 1654 J 20 da y of Februarie 1654. viz'. 



Ministers. Others. 



( Peter Watkinson ( Gilbert Wallis 



Martin Topham j Richard Buxton 



John Otefield | Edward Storer 



{ Tho. Myles J [ John Rudyard 



M r Watkinson being this day chosen Moderator in the absence of Mr 

 Edward Pole began with praier. 



The said M r Richard Chantrie (according to former order) preached before 

 the Classis and his sermon being orthodox & edifying, was approved. 



Afterwards M r Anthonie Buxtonf Bachelour of Arts late student of Trinitie 

 Coiledge in Cambridge addressing himself to y e Classis for ordinaton, was 

 appointed to preach the second Thursday in March next at Bradley, it being 

 the monthlie Lecture appointed by the Classis, when & where M r John Otefeild 

 is likewise to preach. 



The aforesaid Mr. Anthonie Buxton had this Thesis given him : An Christi 

 meritis sit satisfactio divina; Justitise pro peccatis. 



M r Humfrey WaldronJ having formerlie addressed himselfe to the Classis for 



* Samuel Charles, M.A., was a native of Chesterfield, and educated at 

 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was not formally ordained until 

 August, 1655. He was first minister at Kniveton, and then resided with 

 Sir John Cell's family at Hopton. He was afterwards presented to Mickleover 

 by Sir John Curzon ; thence he was ejected in 1662, and after a short 

 residence at Belper, proceeded to Hull. For persisting in officiating as a 

 minister he was there imprisoned for six months in 1682. After his release 

 he continued to reside at Hull, and died there in 1693. 



f We believe Anthony Buxton to have been a son of German Buxton, of 

 Kirk Ireton, who so often attended the Wirksworth Classis as an elder of that 

 Presbytery. He was appointed minister to Hayfield, Derbyshire. 



X Humfrey Waldron was ejected from Broom, Staffordshire, in 1662. 

 Calamy describes him as " a man of good learning and utterance." 



