THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



MULTOHUM MANIBU8 OBANDE LEVATUK ONUS." — Ovid. 



June, 1906. 



(X643— 1662). 



By Rev. Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. 

 (Continued ^rom p. 192.) 



W^t iHtltsfjtre Foluntarg Association of ^puritan JEinistrvs, 



1653. 



Dr. W. A. Shaw, in his History of the English Church diirino the 

 Civil Wars and under the Commonwealth, 1640 — 60 (2 vols., 1900), 

 has noted that " Wilts possessed at least one classis at Saruni 

 which was performing the work of ordination in June, 1652," in 

 the Puritan interest.^ He refers to the ordination of Nathan Jacob 

 and Edward Newton, pp. 182 — 3, sujrra (see Calamy, Account, p. 

 673; Continuation, i^. 291). On the 28th October, in the same 

 year, " Mr. Joseph Hallett, student of divinity, addressed himself 

 to the Classical Presbytery of Sarum, within the Province of the 

 County of Wilts, according to the form of Chuicli Government 

 established by Authority of Parliament of August 29th, 16-48."- 

 Dr. Shaw prints extracts from a pamphlet of 1(')54, entitled " I'he 



' Shaw, Hist, of Engl. Church, 1640—60, ii., 32—3; 437. 

 ■ Id. ii., 437. Wilts had been associated foi* the examination of 

 " Scandalous Ministers " by an ordinance, 19th August, 1644. Lords' 

 Journals, vi., 677 ; Shatc, ii., 191 n. 



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