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MINUTE BOOK OF THE WIRKSWORTH CLASSIS. 



M r Peter Coates to continue Moderator the next meeting of the Classis, 



who this day Moderating ended with praier. 



Jo : Rudyard 



Scribe. 



Wirkesworth Classis 

 in the Countie of Darby 

 Aprill 21. 1657. 



Min ,s 

 Peter Coates, Moder : 

 Peter Watkinson 

 Tho. Shelmerdine 

 Martin Topham 

 M r ) Edward Pole 

 Saml Tricket 

 Samuel More 

 Samuel Charles 

 John Otefield 



These p'sent at the Classicall Meeting 

 the said 21 Aprill 1657 



Others 



M r John Sclater 

 John Rudyard 



J 



M r Peter Coates being the 

 Moderator this day began with 

 praier & made an oration to 

 the Classis. 



This day, 



Boylston* Dr. in Divinitie preached before the Classis ; 



his sermon was well approved. 



M r Ffrancis Low this day exhibited his Thesis which was approved ; but 

 because there was a report to the Classis, that the said M r Ffrancis Low was 

 scandalous in his life and conversacon, therefore it was ordered that intimacon 

 should be forthwith sent unto Marple Chappell in the Parish of Stockport the 

 place of his residence that if any person or persons could object any thing 

 against him, they might exhibit the same unto the above-named Mode- 

 rator. 



M r Daniel Shelmerdinef Bachelor of Arts, late Student of J 



* John Boylston, D.D., was appointed to the rectory of Weston-on-Trent, 

 Derbyshire, in 1648. After the Restoration he became a staunch Churchman 

 and an eminent pluralist. He held the stall of Sandiacre, in Lichfield 

 Cathedral, was rector of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, and also minister 

 of All Saints, Derby. 



t Daniel Shelmerdine was son of Thomas Shelmerdine, minister of Matlock. 

 He was born at Crich, when his father held that vicarage in 1636, so that we 

 gather from this that the Wirksworth Classis would ordain at the age of 20. 

 He became minister of Barrow-cum-Twyford, where he remained till his 

 ejection in 1662. He died at Findern in 1699, and was buried in that 

 Church. For further particulars respecting him, see Churches of Derbyshire, 

 vol, iv, p. 26. 



% This blank should be filled up with "Christ's College, Cambridge." 



