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Skinner Street Congregational Church Seat Book Name Indices

Skinner Street Congregational Church Seat Book Indices for 1760, 1777 and 1791 in Excel. Original transcriptions created by a joint project of Skinner Street United Reformed Church and Poole Museum using equipment kindly provided by the Somerset and Dorset Family History Society. PRS. SSCC
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Summary of the brief Abstract of the Poole Case - 14 April 1760

This document had been prepared for a court case, following the ejection of Rev. Samuel Philipps and his supporters from the Great Presbyterian Meeting House, Hill Street, Poole in late 1759. However, the would-be plaintiffs later decided (as stated within the document) against going to court to resolve the dispute, guided by ‘Christian discretion’. It vividly reveals the acrimonious events that ended Rev. Philipps’ ministry, and the lengths to which the victorious Unitarian party went to permanently exclude the expelled Trinitarians. The fundamentally opposing theologies were at the root of the disagreement, although there may have been other factors too. SSCC
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Vignettes of Three Congregationalist Poole Pastors

This record contains photographs of three notable Congregationalist Poole Pastors, with a short introduction about each. The original photographs are on display in the Skinner Street United Reformed Church, along with that of more recent ministers of the Church. SSCC
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