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have been forgotten, and men of all shades of belief, all forms of 
worship, have found a common bond of union in a work of Christian 
charity. 
" Oh, human heart, thou hast a song 
For all that to the earth belong, 
Whene'er the golden chain of love 
Hath linked thee to the heaven above." 
APPENDIX. 
LISTS OF MINISTERS. 
Ministers of the Baptist Church. — Abraham Cheare, 1649-1668 ; 
persecution then kept the church without a pastor for nineteen years ; 
Robert Browne, 1687-1688 ; — Warner, 1688 ; Robert Holdenby, 
1688-1690; Samuel Buttall, 1690-1697 or 1698; Nathaniel Hodges, 
1698-1701; — Bryant commenced 1707, not ordained until 1710; 
Win. Bennick, 1718-3 720 ; Caleb Jope, 1720-1722 ; Elkanah Widgery, 
1723-1725 ; John Ridley, 1726-1730 ; Didcot Hoare, mentioned as 
pastor in 1737 and 1739 ; John Binnick, left in 1747 ; Philip Gibbs, 
1748 (ordained 1749) -1800; Isaiah Birt, co-pastor with Mr. Gibbs, 
1782-1789 ; William Winterbotham, at first co-pastor, and afterwards 
successor to Mr. Gibbs, 1790 (four years in prison, 1793-1797)-1804 ; 
— Ragsdale, 1808-1810; John Dyer, 1811-1814 ; G. Gibbs, 1816-1819 ; 
S. Nicholson, 1823-1856 ; G. Short, co-pastor, and afterwards successor 
to Mr. Nicholson, 1856-1858; T. C. Page, 1860-1869; John Aldis, 
1869-1876; Robert Lewis, co-pastor, 1870-1876; J. Benwell Bird, 
pastor of Mutley Chapel, 1876. 
Ministers of the Unitarian Congregation. — George Hughes 
and Thomas Martyn, ejected in 1662 ; Nicholas Sherwill, 1662-1672 ; 
Thomas Martyn, 1672-1677; Nathaniel Jacob, 1677-1690; Nathaniel 
Harding, 1690-1744 ; Henry Brett, assistant to Mr. Harding, 1707- 
1723 ; Joseph Cock, ditto, 1721-1731 ; Henry Moore, assistant to Mr. 
Harding till 1744, and afterwards his successor, 1731-1762 ; John 
Reynell, 1762-1784 ; John Hanmer, co-pastor with Mr. Reynell, 1762- 
1771 ; Thomas Watson, 1785-1788 ; Thomas Porter, 1789-1794 ; John 
Kentish, 1794-1795 ; John Jones, ll.d., 1795-1798 ; John Tingcombe, 
1798-1806; John Jones, 1807-1812; Israel Worsley, 1813-1831; 
William James Odgers, 1832-53 ; John Hill, 1853-1854; Henry Knott, 
1854-1865 ; J. K. Smith assisted Mr. Knott for about two months 
