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upon him, that he appears to have entered, as it were, 

 on a new life. He afterwards became an eminent minister, 

 and was Pastor of the Baptist Church at Plymouth for 

 fifty-one years. He was highly and very generally re- 

 spected, and at his funeral, which took place 5th of 

 December, 1800, the Rev. Dr. Hawker, Vicar of Charles 

 Church, and another Clergyman, together with four Inde- 

 pendent and two Baptist Ministers, supported his pall. 



In connection with the account of Philip Gibbs, it may 

 be mentioned that the Hon. T. N. Gibbs, who was educated 

 in Kingsbridge, at the school of his uncle (the late Mr. 

 Philip Gibbs), has for some years been a member of the 

 Canadian House of Commons, and recently accepted a seat 

 in the Canadian Cabinet as Minister of Inland Revenue. 



The Baptists have existed in Kingsbridge from a remote 

 period. In the published denominational list of Churches, 

 the date of the Baptist Church, Kingsbridge, is given as 

 16i0. On the accession to the pastorate of the Rev. Marty n 

 Dunsford, in 1700, the Baptists resolved on building the 

 chapel in Meeting Lane. This still stands, but is now 

 turned into a chapel-keeper's dwelling, and into two large 

 rooms, which are used for the elder Bible classes. 



In 1798, a larger chapel was erected several feet lower 

 down the lane; this was enlarged and altered in 1852, 

 at considerable cost. On the walls are tablets, with 

 inscriptions, which form almost a continuous history of 

 the pastorate from the year 1689. 



To commemorate the names of 



Leonard Kent, Philip Weymouth, 



and Arthur Langworthy, 



who with others in the reign of Charles II., 



laboured and suffered for the truth's sake, 



in connection with this Church. 



