In his book about the Bourton on the Water congregation Pictures of the past Thomas Brooks draws attention to a covenant drawn up and signed by the church in 1720. The covenant can be seen on pages 18-20 of Brooks. He says that
The names of 24 men and 26 women are annexed to this interesting document. The church contained therefore 50 members on that day. Considerable additions were made to that number. The triumphs of the gospel and the spread of their distinctive principles may be judged by the fact, that within three years from the formation of the church 47 members were added by baptism.
He does not give the names but they are listed in an article on the Bourton Church Covenant in the Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, which arises from a discovery of the document among a bundle kept at the Congregational Library.
The list is in four sections and is as follows:
Column 1, section 1
Catherine Bishop, Thos BishopColumn 1, section 1
The mark of ^ Willm Arkull Thomas Blizard James Roberts X Andrew Paxford Rebekah Paxford Powis Collett Thos Bishop Samuel Fox John Farmar Thomas Edgarton James @ Strang his mark John Collett Joseph Straing Column 1, section 2
Anne Collett Ruth Collett Ann Strainge Mary Beart Elizabath Pinock Mary ( Richins Mary [illegible] Mary Rafe Thomas Collett John Raynolds Estar Haynes John Walker John Mabbs(?) Mary Walker Catherine Bishop Sarah Farmar ) Elizabeth Blisard Joyce Collett John Charlwood Aubery X Moris John Strainge John Straing Mary Roberts William Roberts Henry Humphris Sarah Harris Lawrance Dyer Sarah Straing
Column 2, section 1
Richard Straing John Rubee Jonathan Turner Howard Fox Mary Hunt (?) Mary Collett Eliz. Hinman (?) Denis + Ruby (?) Jan Limbard (?) Mary Hayward Ann X Egerton Sarah Rawbone Hanah Cook Eliz. C. Renolds Column 2, section 2
Hannah Paxford Ann Cooke Elizabeth Farmar Elizabeth Rowe Mary Hathaway William Fox Jane Collett Elizabeth Churlob Ann Collett Ann Coombs (?) Thomas Ellis Sarah Morris John Fhluck (?) Robert Fluck Elizabeth Wane Mary Humphris [illegible] Love Collett Ann Gibbs Ann Farmar Samuell Fox William Nickol Sarah Kite Martha Bosner (?) Sarah Preston Sarah Ffox Elizabeth Raynolds
Many of the names are similar or the same as is clear when set out alphabetically like this:
The mark of ^ Willm Arkull, Mary Beart
) Elizabeth Blisard, Thomas Blizard
Martha Bosner (?); John Charlwood
Anne Collett, Ann Collett [illegible], Jane Collett, John Collett, Joyce Collett, Mary Collett, Love Collett, Powis Collett,Ruth Collett, Thomas Collett
Ann Cooke, Hanah Cook
Elizabeth Churlob; Ann Coombs (?); Lawrance Dyer
Ann X Egerton, Thomas Edgarton
Thomas Ellis
John Fhluck (?), Robert Fluck
Ann Farmar, John Farmar,Elizabeth Farmar, Sarah Farmar
Howard Fox, Samuel Fox, Samuell Fox (sic), Sarah Ffox, William Fox
Ann Gibbs; Mary Hathaway; Estar Haynes; Mary Hayward; Sarah Harris; Eliz. Hinman (?)
Henry Humphris, Mary Humphris
Mary Hunt (?); Sarah Kite; Jan Limbard (?); John Mabbs(?)
Aubery X Moris, Sarah Morris
William Nickol
Andrew Paxford, Hanah Paxford, Rebekah Paxford,
Elizabath Pinock; Sarah Preston; Mary Rafe; Sarah Rawbone
Eliz. C. Renolds, Elizabeth Raynolds, John Raynolds
Mary ( Richins
James Roberts X, Mary Roberts, William Roberts
Elizabeth Rowe
Denis + Ruby (?), John Rubee
Ann Strainge, James @ Strang his mark, John Strainge, John Straing (sic), Joseph Straing, Richard Straing, Sarah Straing
Jonathan Turner
John Walker, Mary Walker
Elizabeth Wane
Mary [illegible]
No doubt a good number of these were around when Beddome came to Bourton from 1740.
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