.- A- l'#. .. :. ' - >- ,.qf - ,O-J SHEFFIELD ; . '. FOUNDED 1662: BUILT 1700: _ - For; th kt"o~sk@ ad of AMMY Gfld*'' H.-,= TIMOTHY JOLLIE'S REGISTER ,.F,?. ' .8 OF BAPTISMS. DV J. E. MANNING, M.A., MINISTER OF THE CHAPEL. 'p, L..- , >* - We love the venerable house , I A- - 7 . is,---. *., l: - OUTfathers built to God. -A-,;-!, . !.:);;I:,;- :" -. - ,.n -A&-4 L-- ' THE INDEPENDENT PRESS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, FARGATE. l" - PREFACE. A MEETING of the congregation of u'pper C held in Channing Hall on the 18th of July, I the presidency of Mr. Michael Joseph Hunter, senior Trustee, when it was resolved that, in view of the bicentennial of the building of the chapel, a history of this place of worship be ' prepared and published in 1900. THE MEMORY OF In compiling the history I have consulted the following JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A., works (among others) :-Joseph Hunter's " Hallamshire," L' L' Gens Sylvestrina," and various documents which I have WHO, WHEN A B.OY, ATTENDED THE SERVICES AT UPPER CHAPEL, - Il.ru - been able to consult . either. personally or through others ; .- AND WHEN A MAN REMEMBERED WITH AFFECTION Miall's Congregationalism in Yorkshire ;" Turner's Diary of Oliver Heywood ;" Fishwick's " Thomas Jolly's Note HIS OLD RELIGIOUS HOME, Book ;" Urwick's Nonconformity in Cheshire ;" Calamy's l THIS VOLUME Account ;" Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial ;l' The DiCtionary of National Biography ;" Giles Hester's " Atter- cliffe," Memorials of the Hollis Family," Nevill Simmons, Bookseller and Publisher ;" R. E. Leader's " Reminiscences VALUABLE HELP. of Old Sheffield." Many of the biographies I have been obliged to compile from the local newspapers, from the past numbers of the Unitaviavt Hevald and Inquiver, or from the Chvistian Refornzev. I must express my special indebtedness to the Rev. - Alexander ~or&n,M.A., Principal of the Unitarian Home Missionary College, Manchester, and to Henry Julian Hunter, Esq., M.D., of Bath, for ggestions. J. E. M. -*. c: i% l P H -t-a INDEX. PAGE INTRODUCTION .......... 1-14 . I A&S of Uniformity. 1549. 1552. 1559. 1662 i Corporation A&. 1661 ...... 3 Conventicle A&. 1664 .... 4 Five Miles AA. 1665 ...... 4 Upper Chapel ...... ...... Frontispiece Declaration of Indulgence. 1672 .... 7 "Thewisevirgin" ...... ...... 21 Declaration of Liberty of Conscience. 1687 7 Toleration A&. 1689 .. a 8 Hollis's Hospital ........ ...... ........ A& against occasional Conformity. 171I .... 9 Timothy Jollie Schism Bill. 1714 .. ....... ........ .... 9 Registration Order . ........ Cromwell's Board of Triers .... .... 11 - Joseph Evans .... ............ Upper Chapel an Independent Foundation .... 12 Open Trusts ........... .... Miniature-'' Sacred to love and friendship " ...... PERIODI.-CALVINISM.-I~~~.I~I~ Joseph Hunter . .... .... ............ The Ministry of James Fisher. 1662-1666 .... Nathaniel Philipps . ............ Edward Prime. Matthew Bloome. Rowla. nd Hancock .. ' 1 Brooke Herford ................. 115 . " The Wise Virgin " ...... .... ! Thomas Jessop ........ The Ministry of Robert Durant. 1669-1679 .... The New Hall opened .... .... P The Jessop Hospital ........ ...... 129 Thomas Hollis .... 133 ........ ................ Richard Taylor. 1679-1681 .... .... George Vance Smith .......... The .Ministry of Timothy Jollie. 1681-1714 .... ........'.......... His Ordination ........ .... Marriage with Elizabeth Fisher . .... Imprisonments .... John Hobson ........ ........ ........ " Humble Address " to James I1... .... AttercliRe Academy ...... .... The New Chapel (Upper Chapel) built .... John Edmondson Manning ............ Death of Timothy Jollie .... .... .... Inscription on Tombstone .... Jeremiah Gill. Assistant. 1689 ?-1697 Field Sylvester ........ Registration Order ...... t.@ERIOD 11.-MODIFIED ORTHODOXY.-I71 4.1759 4 John Wadsworth. Assistant. 1701 .. John De la Rose. Assistant. 1714 .. The Secession ........ st Deeds of Nether Chapel . : High Calvinism of De la Rose .....I,.. vii, -. .Lit: ~~~rnistryof John Wadsworth, 1715-1744 ...... 59 Timothy Jollie, Junior, Assistant, 1715-1720 .... 60 Daniel Clark, Assistant, 1720-1724 ......... 64 Benjamin Roberts, Assistant, 1724-1740 ...... 65 Field Sylvester Wadsworth, Assistant, 1740-1756 . 65 Nevill Simmons ............ 67 Thomas Wilson Scott, 1875-1876 ........ I40 PERIODIII.-ARIANIsM.-I~~~-I~~~ .......... 70-100 The Ministry of Eli Fay, 1876-1883 The Changes in Theological Belief at Upper Chapel . ;. 70-75 Channing Hall built .... Calvinism ............... , 72 Laymen of Upper Chapel .... Arianism ................ 72 William Fisher, Senior ....... Clarkeism (Arianism in England) ........ 73 William Fisher. Tunior . .I . Unitarianism .............. 73 . a:?. The Fisher Institution . The Ministry of Thomas Haynes, 1745-1758 ...... 75-78 . John Hobson .......... 152 Fulwood Chapel ............ 78 ' Robert Thomas Eadon .......... I55 John Dickinson, Assistant, 1758-1780 ...... 78-79 William Edward Laycock .......... 156 Benjamin Naylor, Assistant, 1780-1798 ....... 78 HerbertBramley ............ 157 The Ministry of Joseph Evans, 1758-1798 ...... 79-86 Michael Hunter ............ 161 Joseph Hunter, F. S.A. .......... 86-92 The Ministry of John Pinder Bland, B.D., 1884-1888 .. 165 The Ministry of Benjamin Naylor, 1798-1805 ...... 92 The Ministry of John Edmondson Manning, M.A., 1889- . 166 The Ministry of Nathaniel Philipps, D.D., 1805-1837 . 95-100 Revival of Services at Fulwood ........ 169 His Remonstrance to the Dissidents ...... 99 The Chapel Roll-book .......... 170 Inscription on his Tomb, by Joseph Hunter .... g9 The Triennial Conference, 1897 ........ 170 PERIOD1V.-UNITARIANISM.-SECTION I.-1838-1875 ....101-136 Henry Hunt Piper ...... :. .... IOI &~,~nstitutions,Monuments, Officers, &c. ........174-192 Peter Wright .............. 102 . The Sunday School ............ I74 The Ministry of Bartholomew Teeling Stannus, 1838-1852.. 103-109 Sick and Savings Society .......... I74 Re-opening of Chapel after Enlargement. ...a .. 105 Senior Class .............. 176 The Dissenters' Chapels A&. ......a...., 106 %ung People's Religious Union ........ 176 The Lady Hewley Case .......... 106 ~nildof~iod ~ndeavour and Band of Hope .... 176 The Wolverhampton Case .......... 107 The Sewing Guild ............ 176 The Congregational Committee ........ 108 Thb Minister's Class ....- ........ 176 The Ministry of Thomas Hincks, B.A., F.R.S., 1852-1855.. 110-111 Tablet in Memory of Francis Morton ...... 176 The Ministry of Brooke Herford, 1856-1864 ......I 11-114 Tablet in Memory of Charles Hinde ...... 179 Upperthorpe Chapel ............ I 12 'a? LaBiesl Sewing Society .......... 179 Resignation of Pulpit of Upper Chapel ...... 113 Litervy Society ............ 179 Life in America and Return to England ...... Postal Mission .............. 179 . 114 .P The Shores of Meersbrook 117 ~$dfs&ers .......... who have been conne&ed with Upper Chapel and S* - Urith Lydia Shore .... ... .. 118, Laymen of Upper Chapel . .......119-132 Thomas Asline Ward ... ....... 119 ;%&lliarn George Tarrant, B.A. ........ 180 Edward Bramley ............ 121 Alfred Beckett .............. 122 John Beckett ............... 123 Thomas Jessop .............. 124 The Jessop U-spital .......... 128 Robert Jackson , ............ I . Memorial Windows .... ...... 18.5 The Memorial Tablet ............ 187 The Organ ....-..+G. ...... The Communion Plate ..a. ... Present Officers of the Chapel ...... List of Trustees of Upper Chapel from 1704 . List of Secretaries from 1821 ....190 List of Treasurers from 1821 ......... 191 List of Ministers, 1662-1900 ....... 191 Index ef Names .... I93 ** 6 Register of Baptisms ......... .. 196 ERRATA. Page 33, line 8, for 23 read 25 ; for 32 read 34. P rr.-' er- *. ct of Unifor~nityl(Ed. VI.), passed in the year that the new English Prayer Book (Edward's ook) should be used in all churches throughout his involved great changes in the old service, t was open rebellion. In Devonshire, Cornwall, elsewhere there was civil war, the revolt being only after scenes of violence and bloodshed. had now caused to be perused, perfec?," was to be used " in all the churches. ven of the Marian bishops, ' @ Ed. VI., c. I. Neal, ib., pp. 63-64. 3 I Eliz. c. 2. I I UPPER CHAPEL. INTRODUCTION. 3 negle&ing or refusing to make this declaration was depriva- ) Among those ejeRed or silenced were distinguished men tion $so facfo of all their spiritual promotions. It further like Baxter, Calamy, Philip Henry, Owen, Bates, Goodwin, ena&ed that all masters, fellows, or tutors of colleges, - cIarkson, Gouge, Caryl, and many others. Thomas Jollie professors at the Universities, schoolmasters keeping public (16~9-1703)~father of Timothy Jollie, was eje&ed from or private schools, and 'l any person instrudling youth in any Altham in Lancashire ; William Bagshaw (1628-1702)~ the private family, shall, before the feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle of the Peak," frog Glossop ; Oliver Heywood (1630- 1662," subscribe certain declarations, and conform to the 17d2) from Coley Chapel, Halifax ; James Fisher ( -1666) liturgy of the Church of England, as it is now by law - from Sheffield; Robert Durant ( -1678), who succeeded established." him as minister to the first Nonconformist place of worship A clause further ena&s that no person shall be capable It ' in the town, was eje&ed from Crowle in Linco1nshire.l of any benefice, or presume to consecrate and administer the . was not easy to fill the places of the eje&ed ministers. They holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper, before he be ordained were, as cocke says,