812 " Andover and Us Neighbourhood" 



He was ejected in 1662 from South Tedworth Rectory. Bishop 

 Morley protected him from prosecution^ and would have presented 

 him to a living had he been willing to use the Book of Common 

 Prayer. Mr. Sprint was thirty years at the Soper^s Lane meeting- 

 housCj and died at Clatford. The Rev. Jacob Ball, who succeeded 

 Sprintj became eventually an Avian. He died in 1747. In the 

 same room in which the Presbyterians worshipped, a Congregational 

 Church was accustomed to hold its services. The latter had for 

 their first minister the Rev. Isaac Chauncy, a physician, who had 

 been ejected from the living of Woodborough, in Wilts. The Rev. 

 Samuel Tomlyns, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, succeeded. 

 He had been ejected from Crawley. He writes, " Mr. Sprint and I 

 for several years did peaceably go on at Andover, both preaching in 

 one pulpit to the same congregation." Nevertheless the two 

 Chm'ches did not then coalesce, but the congregation eventually be- 

 came entirely Congregational. Calamy, the eminent Nonconformist, 

 visited Andover. The Presbyterians have no meeting-place here. 

 The Chapel in East Street was called the Upper Meeting-house, and 

 had for its first minister the Rev. Samuel Chandler. He settled here 

 in 1700, when the first Chapel in East Street was built. The Rev. 

 Samuel Say, whose father had been ejected from S. Michael's, South- 

 ampton, succeeded Chandler. He was fellow-student with Dr. 

 Watts. In the ministry of the Rev. David Millar the pews of the 

 meeting-house were bought and sold. The price of one is given at 

 12*. M. ; of another, £1 Is. 6d. ; and of a single sitting, 5*. In 

 1761 a house was purchased for the minister, the cost being £182. 

 About the year 1S38 the Independents, Baptists, and some few 

 Episcopalians, erected a school to be conducted on the British system, 

 and the house adjoining the Congregational Chapel was purchased 

 for the minister. There are Chapels for the Wesleyans, Baptists, 

 and Primitive Methodists, in the town, but none for Roman Catholics, 

 Quakers, and Unitarians. 



The old and now unused names of streets that I have met with 

 in the records are. Back Lane, Rowlie's Lane, Frog Lane, 

 Duck Street, Brick Kiln Street, King's Head Street, Whytchurch 

 Street, Littlebury Street. New Street is really a most ancient street. 



