SWALLOW-STREET.-English Presbyterian. Morton had been before this for some years pastor of a society of Particular Baptists near Cripplegate. Mr. Morton continued at Glass-house-street till the year 1742, when he either died, or removed to some other place. WILLIAM ANDERSON.-This worthy man was called into the ministry by Dr. Gill's church, and being invited to succeed Mr. Morton at Glass-house-street, was ordained there May 12, 1743. At the time of his settlement the interest was in a very low state, but by his exertions he raised it into a flourishing society. After a few years a new meetinghouse was built for him in Grafton-street, to which he contributed largely himself, and whither the congregation removed about the year 1750. Of Mr. Anderson we shall have occasion to speak further under the article Keppel street. SWALLOW-STREET. ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN.EXTINCT. WE learn from the life of the famous Mr. RICHARD BAXTER, that after he was turned out of Oxendon chapel by the violence of his persecutors, he had another meetinghouse in Swallow-street. He entered upon that place in the month of April, 1676, but was not suffered to preach there long, being forcibly kept out of it by a guard of constables and officers for many Sundays together. Surely, the men of those times must have entertained very formidable notions of the effect of Mr. Baxter's preaching! The course they pursued was either that of barbarians or politi SWALLOW-STREET.-English Presbyterian, Extinct. cians. If the latter there must have been something more infectious in Mr. Baxter's principles than historians have acquainted us with; or else the preaching and conduct of that excellent person reflected such a lustre upon his character, as to shame the atheistical practices of his unprincipled oppressors. After he was driven from this place, Mr. Baxter was called to succeed Mr. Wadsworth in Maid-lane, Southwark, and preached there many months in peace. He is said to have been succeeded at Swallow-street by " a faithful, painful, self-denying minister;" but his name is not mentioned. After the Revolution the Nonconformists held their assemblies more quietly, and Mr. JOSEPH HILL was settled pastor there by Mr. Vincent Alsop. After preaching there for several years, he accepted an invitation in 1699, to be one of the ministers of the English church at Rotterdam, where he continued nineteen years, when he returned to London, and became pastor of a congregation at Haberdashers'-hall, in which connexion he died. During the period of Mr. Hill's ministry at Swallow-street, he had a Mr. CARLILE for his colleague; but of this gentleman we are unable to communicate any particulars. His name is found in a manuscript list of Dissenting ministers in London in 1695, now before us. Mr. Hill was succeeded by a Mr. STORT, who came last from Harwich. Concerning this gentleman, the celebrated Mr. John Dunton has left the following character: "He formerly sought his quietness in secrecy; and was wont, till of late, to hide himself in retiredness, and his tongue in himself; but now he is come into the light, being removed from Harwich, to a congregation in London, he shews by his useful preaching, that his obscurity was neither from affectation nor weakness: in a word, he is both an apt scholar, and a good master, for every thing he sees, informs him, and his mind enriched with plentiful observations, can SWALLOW-STREET.-Scotch Presbyterian. give us excellent precepts.' Mr. Stort is supposed to have died about the year 1710, when his congregation dissolved, and most of the surviving members united themselves to Dr. Anderson's church, in the same neighbourhood.+ SWALLOW-STREET. SCOTCH PRESBYTERIAN. THE church of which we are now to write was collected towards the commencement of the eighteenth century by Dr. James Anderson, a Scotchman, and consisted of such persons of his own nation as resided at the west end of the town. Their first place of worship was in Glass-housestreet, from whence they removed in 1710, to a larger building in Swallow-street, Piccadilly. This place had been several years in the possession of a congregation of French Protestants, of the episcopal persuasion. It was erected for their use about the year 1692, and the site being crown land, a lease was granted by government for thirtyfive years. About the end of 1709, the French Protestant church was so much decreased by deaths and removals, that the remaining proprietors made an offer of the sale of the lease to Dr. Anderson, whose church was looking out for a more commodious place of worship. Dr. Anderson and his elders accepted the offer, and purchased the lease of the place in February, 1710. About the same time his church received a considerable accession from the remains of Mr. Stort's congregation in the same neighbourhood. In Dr. + MS. penes me. * Dunton's Life and Errors, p. 458. SWALLOW-STREET.-Scotch Presbyterian. Anderson's time the meeting-house was rebuilt. A few years before the death of that gentleman, a division took place in the society, when he left them, and settled at another place. This has been always a place of considerable resort for people of the Scottish nation, and the congregation is now in a very flourishing state. The meeting-house is a large oblong building with three galleries, and is fitted with great neatness. up The following is a correct list of the ministers who have presided over this society. JAMES ANDERSON, D. D.-Of this gentleman we have already spoken at large, under a former article. It will be only necessary to observe in this place, that after the breach which took place between him and his people, he retired to another meeting-house in Lisle-street, Leicestersquare, to which place a part of his congregation followed him. In that connexion he died in 1739, and several years after his death, his people removed to the present meetinghouse in Peter-street, of the church in which place, Dr. Anderson may be considered as the founder. WILLIAM CROOKSHANK, D. D. was a native of ScotJand, and passed through a regular course of studies for the SWALLOW-STREET.Scotch Presbyterian. ministry in one of the universities of that kingdom. Having taken his degree of Master of Arts, he was licensed to preach the gospel, and soon afterwards removed to London, upon an invitation to succeed Dr. Anderson. He was ordained in Swallow-street January 23, 1734-5. The Rev. James Gordon preached the sermon upon the occasion from 1 Tim. iv. 16. and the Rev. Samuel Say delivered the charge, which was not founded upon any particular text of scripture, but consisted of a few pertinent observations relating to the ministerial character and duty. After Mr. Crookshank had been settled some years in this situation, he gave to the public a judicious abridgment of a voluminous but very valuable work, written by the Rev. Robert Wodrow, relating to the oppressions of the Scotch nation under the unprincipled government of the Stuarts. It made its appearance in 1749,* and was entitled "The History of the State and Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restoration to the Revolution." 2 vols. 8vo. This work was dedicated to Alexander Earl of Leven, upon whose ancestors the author bestows some historical remarks, together with a warm eulogium. Not long after this publication, Mr. Crookshank received from his own country a diploma creating him Doctor of Divinity. It is the province of an historian to relate his facts with fidelity. Duty, therefore, compels us to observe that, after an apparently respectable course of three and thirty years. that he stood related to the church in Swallow-street, an exception was taken to his conduct that blasted his reputation for the remainder of life. He was in consequence dismissed from his office as pastor, and excluded the communion of the church. After this, he retired into the country, where he dragged out the short remainder of his days in solitude and remorse. He is said to have died of a broken heart, July 28, 1769, when he was more than seventy years of age. Dr. Crookshank was a little man, but possessed a respectable share of talents and learning, which rendered his fall the |