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Statistical View of Dissenters: €”Cumberland.
JULY
"The 13th of the foresaid month, (1st month, 1670,) being the Lord's-day, the church mett at the pastor's house, where Mr. ATKINSON, pastor of the church about Kirkoswald, carried on the worke of the day: €”The 20th of the said month, being Lord's-day, one Mr. NICHOLSON, (see Palmer, p. 386) teacher of the church about Kirkoswald, carried on the worke of the day.
"At the same time, (Feb. 10th, 1670,) order was taken to gather something to be sent to the Brethren about Kirkoswald, who had suffered in the spoiling of their goods, by the late Act against meetings.
"June 12th, (1674,) the church kept a day of praier, especially on the behalfe of the people of God about Kirkoswald,who have been bound of their liberty, and are forced to meet by fours."
(The register of Parkhead then continues.)
"May 29th, 1711, was our place of worship at Huddlesceugh taken down. The first sermon preached in it, was upon August 1711, from Titus iii. 8, whence two doctrines were handled that day. 1. That there have been some in all ages, that have abused the grace of God to carnal licentiousness, libertines, and ranters. 2. That the word is certain."
"I was ordained Jul 4th, 1700: €”Caleb Threlkeld."
"On the 9th of Nov. 1712, Mr. Threlkeld was induced to resign his charge of this people. So it is certified in a christian friendly manner in the register. The elders, deacons, and others, 'heartily recommending him in his labours to the grace of God, whereverDivine Providence shall cast him, praying, that through grace he may be further useful, as a burning, shining light .' They also recommended 'his wife to the fellowship of any communion of Christians, and his children,' enumerating all of them, 'to the watch of any other church to which they may remove, that the whole family may have the benefit of church privileges, as they have had amongst us these several years, to the edification of their souls in the truth, as it is in Jesus our Lord.'"
(An interesting biography of this learned and excellent man is given in Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, from which the following is extracted.)
"In this parish (Kirkoswald), in 1676, Caleb Threlkeld, the author of 'A Treatise on the Native Plants of Ireland,' was born. In 1698, he commenced A.M. in the University of Glasgow; and soon after settled at Low Huddlesceugh, near the place of his birth, as a Dissenting minister. During his residence at Glasgow, he had acquired a taste for botany and physic; and continued to make a considerable progress in their studies; insomuch, that in 1712, he took a doctor's degree in physic at Edinburgh; and the next hear, having but a small income, and a large family, he removed to Dublin, and settled there in the united characters of the Divine and Physician. Finding himself likely to succeed, in little more than a year, he sent for his family, consisting of a wife, three sons, and three daughters. His practice as a physician soon increased. Soon after his publishing the Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum, he was taken with a vilent fever, and died at his house, in Mark's Alley, Frances Street. He was buried in the new burial ground belonging to St. Patrick's near Cavant Street, to which place his obsequies were attended by a set of children, educated by a society of gentlemen, to which institution he had acted as physician. he was much regretted by the poor, to whom he had been, both as a man and a physician, a kind benefactor. He meditated a grenal history of plants; but it does not appear, that he ever published any ting, but the above-mentioned Synopsis, in Dublin, 1727, 8vo. pp. 262."
"May 5th, 1708, the Rev. JOHN SPADEMAN, presented Baxter's Practical Works, in 4 vols. for the use of the resident minister, and his successors for ever.' €”There are memoranda of Bibles given to the ministers for distribution by Philip, late Lord Wharton, Oct. 1716. €”'April 10th, 1728, THOMAS WALKER was set apart for the work of the ministry, by fasting, prayer, and imposition of hands. The following ministers being present: Messrs. Dickinson, Carlisle; Wight, Brampton; Stot. Keswick; Rotherham, Kendal; Wilson, Penrith; Wilson, Alstonmoor; Astley, Whitehaven; Atkinson, Penruddock.' My Thesis was upon the following question, viz. An ProphetiÅ“ Veteris Testamenti ad literam adimpletÅ“ sunt in Jesu Nazareno?"
"In Oct. 22d, 1732, ADAM DEAN was invited; and 'April 10th, 1734, was set apart for the work of the ministry, by fasting, prayer, and imposition of hands. The following ministers being present. Mr. Dickenson, of Carlisle; Mr. Astley, of Whitehaven; Mr. Rotherham, of Kendal; Mr. Threlkeld, of Penrith; Mr. Walker, of Cockermouth; Mr. Kilpatrick, of Stainton; Mr. Wilson, of Alstonmoor; Mr. Helm, of Penruddock; and also these two from NOrthumberland, Mr. Dean, of Falstone; Mr. Crossland, of Woodside. The place of ordination was at Brampton. My Thesis was, An animÅ“ bonorum ante Christi adventum et resurrectionen mortuorum mox post obitum in statum felicitatis receptÅ“ fuerint? and my sermon upon John vi. 44.' €”Mr.D. continued here upwards of 50 years,
[hand written in footer] I was ordained November 8th. 1815. London
Lancelot Edward Threlkeld
now in Sydney new South Wales April 1846. [/footer]