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Martin Topham Moderat -> 

 Peter Watkinson 

 Thomas Shelmerdine 

 Edward Pole 

 John Otefield 

 Samuel Tricket 



Others 



M r John Sclater 

 John Rudyard 



M r Samuel Tricket is this day 

 voted Assistant to this Classis 



This day M r Martin Topham being Moderator began with praier, and then 

 made an oration to the Classis. 



M r Ffrancis Lowe Bachelor of Arts, late Student of Brasnose Colledge in 

 Oxford, having desired to be ordained a preaching Presbyter produced two 

 certificates, in order thereunto, gave an account of the worke of Grace uppon 

 his Soule, of his call to the Ministerie, of his skill in the Originall tongues 

 & in the Arts Logicke & philosophic, likewise of his knowledge in divinitie ; 

 in all which he gave satisfaction. 



The said Mr. Ffrancis Lowe preached (this day) before the Classis, and 

 his sermon being orthodox was approved. 



Ordered that the next Monthlie lecture be kept at Bonteshall & that 

 Mr Edward Pole provide a sermon. 



Voted that M r Peter Coates be Moderator at the next Classicall-meeting 



M r Martin Topham being Moderator this day ended with praier 



Jo : Rudyard, 



Scribe 



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These p'sent at the Classicall-Meeting this 

 said 17 March 1656 



Others 



M r Henry Buxton 

 John Rudyard 



Wirkesworth Classis 1 



in the Countie of Darby ^ 



March 17 1656 J 



Ministers 

 ' Peter Coates, Mod r 

 Peter Watkinson 

 Martin Topham 

 Edward Tole 

 John Otefield 

 Samuel Tricket 



This day M r Peter Coates being Moderator began with praier & after- 

 wards made an oration to y e Classis. 



M r Thomas Hutchinson Bachelor of Arts, late student Maudlin Colledge 

 in Cambridge desiring to be ordained a preaching Presbyter, & being a man 

 well knowne to this Classis, and because the place of his aboad is fair dis- 

 tant from this Classis, had therefore this Thesis sent him, vizt An decretum 

 divinum tollat Liberum arbitrium ? 

 Voted, that the 20 day of May next be set apart for a day of Ordinacion. 



