Reference
X422/3
Title
Bargain & Sale Inrolled
Date free text
6 Dec 1826
Production date
From: 1825 To: 1827
Scope and Content
(i) William Jackson late of Bedford, now of Burslem, Staffordshire, upholsterer
(ii) Joseph Swannell of Radwell Moor End, farmer
Thomas Hine of Milton, farmer
Samuel Bennett of Beckerings Park, farmer
William Bennett of Marston, farmer
John Isitt of Bedford, butcher
Isaac Wale of Bedford, tailor
Thomas Row of Bedford, draper
John Dowsett of Bedford, surgeon
William Armstrong the younger of Wilshampstead, farmer
John Dixon of Renhold, yeoman
... piece of ground in Silver Lane, Hawnes, 16 yards by 9 yards, and the new erection on it used as a chapel for the Society of Methodists, to hold on trust that:
trustees shall dispose of such plots of the ground as the majority think unnecessary to retain with the chapel.
trustees shall only permit persons appointed by yearly conference of the people called Methodists as established by deed poll 28 Feb 1780 under seal of Reverend John Wesley, to have use of the chapel for preaching and expounding and for other acts of religious worship; provided that preachers appointed by conference preach no other doctrines than those in certain notes on the New Testament and in the first four volumes of sermons published by John Wesley; provided that the same preachers shall not be sent to the chapel for more than two years successively without consent of majority of trustees; provided that if it appears to trustees that conduct, doctrine or abilities of a preacher is contrary to above test, trustees shall proceed according to a rule provided in conference of 1795, which rule shall also regulate alterations in times of services.
it shall be lawful for trustees to collect and receive at chapel such sums of money as majority think reasonable, as well as profits of the parcel of ground (except collections made by preachers, conference or special appointment), the surplus to be laid out towards the preaching of the Gospel, in the circuit, and among the poor of the Society of Methodists in Hawnes or elsewhere, as trustees, superintendent preacher, men leaders of classes and stewards shall think best.
if the society become extinct or if a larger chapel necessary, trustees may sell chapel and ground, the money to be laid out either as conference shall direct or towards a new building.
if a trustee be excluded from the Methodist Society, he shall convey all his trust estate to the others.
when the trustees are reduced to 5, new trustees shall be appointed to preserve the number of 11 trustees.
if conference should not appoint a preacher, trustees may.
witnesses: Benjamin Savel, Robert Mason
6 Dec 1826 (word "six" written over another word which was rubbed out)
Inrolled: 14 Apr 1827
Level of description
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