File NLW MS 13614E. - Baptist Churches Assembly proceedings,

A volume containing accounts of the proceedings of the General Assembly of Baptist Churches. Handwritten accounts are included for the years 1730 (held at Glashouse Yard, London), 1732-1733 (at White's Alley, London) and 1746-1747, 1749-1770 (at Samuel Fry's Meeting-house in Horsely Down, Southwark); together with printed accounts of proceedings for 1771-1785 and 1787. Most of the reports appear to have been sent to John Geere (?-1774), an elder at Webstone Baptist Church. Also included in the volume are the following items: a re-statement by the Baptist General Assembly of their belief in Universal Redemption following a division of opinion, the document dated 10 June 1731; a printed letter, dated 2 June 1773, of the committee appointed by the General Baptist Assembly to be circulated among the churches; a printed copy of W.M., A Letter to a Friend shewing the inexpediency of Card-Playing, Dancing, Horse-Racing and other Carnal Pleasures; a printed letter, 21 May 1783, from Joseph Jeffries at London, relating to the relief of poor ministers of the General Baptists and for the encouragement of young students; three letters, 1737-1757, transferring members to Dover Baptist Church from Baptist congregations in Canterbury and Deal; and a printed appeal, 1781, from the Baptist congregation at Little Sutton, near Sutton Coldfield, for money towards the building of a chapel. English. Formerly George Eyre Evans Bequest MS 402.