HIGH-HALL.Buptist, Extinct. 1700, he, at the request of his people, addressed a letter to the church in White's-alley, intimating that they had cast their affections upon Mr. Abraham Mulliner, and requesting, that if they should proceed to choose him joint elder with himself, they would acquiesce in the choice. The application, however, was in vain; for they refused to give him up, and Mr. Russell did not live to see another person chosen. Considerably advanced years," he exchanged "he this transitory life for a blessed immortality," on the 6th of March 1701-2. Dr. Jackson, author of "The Funeral Tear to his pious Memory," says, "He was an able teacher and spiritual guide; one that was thoroughly furnished to every good word and work: and as such, an able minister of the New Testament. One so laborious in the performance of the pastoral duty over the flock, which God's providence had committed to his charge, that his care for them was more than common. He was in his studies unwearied, in his sermons and writings elaborate, and so accomplished both in his natural and acquired perfections, as spoke him truly a good man, and great preacher, and one who ought to be spoken of with love and reverence."+ JOSEPH JENKINS.-After the death of Dr. Russel, the congregation at High-Hall remained destitute of a pastor for about seven years. At length in the year 1709, Mr. Joseph Jenkins was chosen to that service. About this time a division seems to have taken place in the society upon some point of controversy, but the particulars of it are at present unknown. Mr. Jenkins was a minister of some note in his day among the Baptists of the General persuasion. He was originally a member of the church in Whites'-Alley, Moorfields, where he preached his first sermon in the month of August, 1698. His service upon that occasion being ap * Crosby's English Baptists, vol. iv. p. 259–261. HIGH-HALL—Baptist, Extinct. proved, he was requested by the church to exercise his talents in that way more frequently amongst them. With this request he complied occasionally, till November, 1699, when he was chosen to preach at Whites'-Alley alternately with Mr. Mulliner, the pastor. In July, 1700, the General Baptist church in Hart-street, Covent-Garden, invited him to preach statedly amongst them every Lord's-day in the forenoon; but the church in Whites'-Alley would not consent to part with him at that time. In the month of July in the following year, the same church invited him to become their elder; and it was not till after some considerable time that he accepted the invitation, his own church being still unwilling to lose him. These circumstances prove, that his ministerial abilities were held in high estimation. On the 14th of December, 1702, he removed his communion to the church in Hart-street, and continued to preach there about six or seven years; but in 1709, he accepted a call to become pastor of the General Baptist society at High-Hall, and attempted an union between both churches, though without success. In this new connexion he continued also about seven years. In 1716, he made his last earthly removal, by accepting the charge of an ancient congregation of the same persuasion, that met in Duke-street, in the Park, Southwark, to which place many of his former hearers followed him, and an union took place between both churches. Thus ended the General Baptist interest at High-Hall, the very existence of which is scarcely known, excepting to a very few persons, in the present day. We hear nothing further of the meetinghouse after this period; so that it was, most probably, in a short time taken down.* • MS. penes me. BAGNIO-COURT.-Particular Baptist, Extinct. BAGNIO-COURT. PARTICULAR BAPTIST.-EXTINCT. F the society that met at what was called THE BAGNIO, in Newgate-street, we have already given a large account under the article Curriers'-Hall. In the present place it will be sufficient to observe, that it was gathered in the reign. of Charles I. by the famous Mr. HANSERD KNOLLYS, and met first at Great St. Helen's, in Bishopsgate-street. Being turned out from thence by the intolerant proceedings of the Presbyterians, he opened another meeting-house in Finsbury-fields. After being driven about for many years by persecution, he at length fixed at Broken Wharf, Thamesstreet, where he preached at the time of the Revolution. A few years afterwards, he removed his people to the Bagnio in Newgate-street, where they were without a pastor in 1704. Mr. David Crossley being chosen to that service soon afterwards, removed with the congregation to Curriers'Hall, Cripplegate, where they assembled, under a succession of pastors, till the close of the century, when they again removed to Red-cross-street, where they are now become absorbed with Mr. Franklin's church. OLD-BAILEY.--Presbyterian, Extinct. OLD-BAILEY. PRESBYTERIAN-EXTINCT. TOWARDS OWARDS the beginning of the eighteenth century, there stood a meeting-house in the Old-Bailey, but the existence of it is now scarcely known. It is mentioned in a list of licensed places, in London, in 1738, and was occupied by a congregation of the Presbyterian persuasion. The history of this society is now entirely lost. It must have been raised, however, subsequently to 1695, as it is not enumerated in a list of churches now before us, of that date. We possess no further information respecting the meeting-house, but have for some time supposed it not improbable that it was at this place that the celebrated Mr. Thomas Emlyn preached to a small society that he gathered among persons of his own sentiments, but which being weakened by deaths, dissolved in his own lifetime. Whether our conjecture in this respect be right, we know not; but as we shall have no other opportunity of introducing an account of him in this work, we shall seize that which now offers, being unwilling to omit altogether a person who attained to such distinguished eminence in his day. THOMAS EMLYN, was born at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, in the year 1663. His parents were frequenters of the established church, and particularly intimate with Doctor Richard Cumberland, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough; but, being inclinable to the principles of the nonconformists, chose to bring up their son to the ministry in that connexion. With this view, after he had gone through a preparatory course of grammar learning, in the year 1678, he was sent OLD-BAILEY.-Presbyterian, Extinct. for academical education to Mr. Shuttleworth, at Sulby, near Welford, in Northamptonshire. In the year 1679, he was admitted at Emanuel College, in the University of Cambridge; but returned again to Mr. Shuttleworth, with whom he continued, on the whole, for a term of four years. Not finding, however, in his academy, all the advantages which he was desirous of enjoying, particularly in the article of books, he wished to be placed in some other seminary, where he might be furnished with greater means of improvement. Accordingly, in 1682, he removed to Mr. Doolittle's academy, which was kept in the neighbourhood of London, in which he was near the public scene, and had access to a variety of books, and the benefit of literary conversation. Mr. Emlyn made his first appearance, in the character of a preacher, at Mr. Doolittle's meeting-house in London, in 1682. In the year 1683, he became chaplain to the Countess of Donegal, who then lived in London, and in the year following went over with her and her family to Belfast, in Ireland, where she was soon married to Sir William Franklin, and lived in great state and splendour. Here he had a very liberal and handsome allowance, and was treated with every mark of civility and respect. Sir William, who had a good estate in the West of England, offered him a considerable living in that country; but this offer he declined, on account of his dissatisfaction with the terms of ministerial conformity, though at that time he entertained no scruples on the subject of the Trinity. And that he was no bigot he sufficiently proved by constantly attending the service of the church both parts of the day, and by his frequently officiating for the minister of the parish, with whom he was on a footing of great intimacy, and who was frequently his auditor in the evening when he preached in the Countess's hall. To explain the circumstance of his frequently officiating in the parish church, it should be mentioned, that, without any subscription, he had from the |