SALTERS' HALL.-English Presbyterian.

Hall, joint-pastor with Mr. Worthington, on May 15, 1782. After continuing in this connexion about eight years, he removed in 1790, to Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire, and thence, after a short time, to Leicester, to be colleague with the Rev. Hugh. Worthington, sen. upon whose death, in 1797, he succeeded to the whole charge. Mr. Jacomb continued at Leicester till 1803, when he resigned the pastoral office, and retired to Bath, where he now resides without any stated charge.

ROBERT WINTER, pastor of a congregation at Hammersmith, became morning-preacher at Salters'-Hall, in 1790, in the room of Mr. Jacomb. In this connexion he continued thirteen years, but resigned at Lady-day, 1803, having just before relinquished the congregation in Hanover-street, to which place he had removed from Hammersmith. After a short time, he removed to the Isle of Wight, where he was settled about two years, when he accepted an invitation to return to London, as the successor to Mr. Thorp, at New-court, Carey-street, Lincoln's-innfields, where he is the present minister. During his time the morning congregation at Salters'-Hall was very large and respectable.

JOHN SAVILLE.-After a vacancy of nearly two years and a half, which operated greatly to the injury of the morning congregation, Mr. John Saville, late a student at Homerton academy, was chosen morning-preacher, in the autumn of 1805. The congregation, which was then very much diminished, is still in a low state.

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CUTLERS'-HALL, CLOAK-LANE.

INDEPENDENT.-EXTINCT.

CUTLERS-HALL, on the south side of Cloak-lane, Upper Thames-street, was another of the city halls appropriated to the use of Nonconformists. The earliest account that can be appointed concerning this place is, that it was occupied during the reign of Charles II. by the congregation under the care of Mr. Thomas Cole, a celebrated Independent minister, and one of the Merchants' lecturers at Pinners'-Hall. He was ordained at this place in February, 1674. How long Mr. Cole preached at Cutlers'-Hall seems uncertain; but his congregation must have removed to another place some time previous to his death, which happened in the year 1697. At this time Cutlers'-Hall was occupied by another Independent congregation, under the pastoral care of Mr. Thomas Beverley; but whether he gathered the Society, or succeeded some other minister, seems uncertain. His congregation is said to have dissolved in 1697.

THOMAS BEVERLEY.-Concerning the history of this person, we can state but few particulars. There was a Mr. John Beverley, who was pastor of the Independent church at Rowell, during the inter-regnum; but whether he was any way related to our author, we cannot take upon us to say. Thomas Beverley appeared upon the public stage in the reign of James II. as the interpreter of prophecy. In the year of the Revolution, 1688, he wrote a tract to prove that the Papacy could survive but nine or ten years; and so prepossessed was he with this notion, that almost each succeeding year produced some prophetical calculation, till

CUTLERS'-HALL, CLOAK-LANE.-Independent, Extinct.

he had the mortification to see the time pass by, and himself convicted for a false prophet. Dr. Beverley, for such he was called, though whether he took a degree in medicine, or any other science, we are not able to determine, was a warm admirer of the Revolution, and of its glorious hero King William, to whom he dedicated his prophecies. He seems to have thought that the political hero was the grand harbinger of the kingdom of Christ, and his millenial reign; and that England was the favoured spot from whence it was to be announced., His visionary notions led him to build aerial expectations, which ended in his disappointment and confusion.

Dr. Beverley, besides being pastor of a congregation at Cutlers'-Hall, was one of the Lord's-day morning lecturers at Fetter-lane, along with Mr. Stephen Lobb, and some other Independent ministers. In the controversy that followed the publication of Dr. Crisp's works, Dr. Beverley took some share. The pamphlets he published upon this occasion, hold him up in the light of a reconciler between the two parties, for which, it is probable, he received the thanks of neither. His own sentiments seemed to lean towords the Crispian side of the controversy; he nevertheless speaks respectfully of Mr. Williams, as also of Mr. Baxter, whom he unites with Dr. Crisp, as two persons of estimable memory, whose spirits were with Christ, and their seemingly different apprehensions perfectly reconciled, and concentrated in pure and unmixed truth.*

Dr. Beverley resigned his charge of the congregation at Cutlers'-Hall, in 1697. To this he was, probably, impelled by the non-fulfilment of his prophetical calculations; for in that year was to have been the commencement of the millenial reign of Christ; but Providence having deferred that important event to a much later period, Dr. Beverley, with the vexation arising from disappointment, retired into

• Conciliatory Discourse upon Dr. Crisp's Sermons.

Publishid March 11809 by Marwell & Wilson Skinner Street.