APPENDIX.

I.

The following statements will show the amount of money that has been expended on the Chapels, School-rooms, Ministers' Houses, &c., in connexion with the Independent denomination in Northamptonshire, during little more than the last quarter of a century.

£ s. d.

Northhampton—

Castle Hill—New School-rooms and improvements in the Chapel, 1825-1852 1,400 0 0

King Street—New School-rooms 336 6 5

Commercial Street—New Chapel, galleries and organ, new School-rooms, 1829-1851 3,800 0 0

Rowell—Improvements in the Chapel, 1852 800 0 0

Kettering—New School-rooms and improvements in the Chapel, 1849. 1,400 0 0

Harborough—New Chapel and new School-room, 1844-1850 3,230 0 0

Ashley—Improvements in the Chapel and Minister's House, 1827-1832 400 0 0

Wellingborough—

Cheese Lane—New School-rooms, 1850 300 0 0

Salem Chapel—New School-rooms, 1850 300 0 0

Weedon Beck—New School-room, improvements in the Chapel 235 0 0

Long Buckby—Chapel enlarged, new School-room, 1819-1825 350 0 0

Potterspury—New School-rooms 208 17 0

Potterspury—Yardley Gobion, new Chapel 368 4 10½

Yardley Hastings—New School-rooms 400 0 0

Brigstock—Minister's House, improvements in the Chapel 456 12 9

Yelvertoft—Chapel enlarged, new School-rooms 226 0 0

Wollaston—New vestry, improvements in the Chapel, Minister's House 645 4 3

Carried forward £14,856 5 3½

£ s. d.

Brought forward 14,85653½

Peterborough—New School-room, galleries in the Chapel, 1834-1848 350 0 0

Towcester—New Chapel and School-rooms, 1846 1,134 3 10

Old—Improvements in the Chapel and premises, 185260 0 0

Brackley—New Chapel, 1836 650 0 0

Paulerspury—New Chapel, vestry, galleries, and School-rooms, 1826-1850 606 12 0

King's Cliffe—New Chapel and School-room 500 0 0

Nassington—New Chapel 300 0 0

Castor—New Chapel 260 0 0

Middleton—New Chapel, 1844; School-room, 1852 400 0 0

Broughton—New Chapel 100 0 0

£19,217 1 11½

II. THE NUMBER OF COMMUNICANTS AND SABBATH-SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Communicants. Children.

Northampton, Castle Hill150300

Northampton, King's Street7295

Northampton, Commercial Street160400

Rowell130320

Kettering200280

Harborough163260

Ashley and Wilbarston5660

Welford80130

Creaton6080

Daventry94190

Wellingborough, Cheese Lane70190

Wellingborough, West End3784

Wellingborough, Salem100200

Oundle70120

Weedon Beck80125

Long Buckby50100

Potterspury65130

Yardley Hastings116260

Kilsby and Crick60at Crick 35

————

Carried forward1,8133,359

Communicants. Children.

Brought forward1,8133,359

Brigstock60110

Weldon and Corby2775

Yelvertoft80130

Wollaston41 about 50

Peterborough120200

Towcester50110

Old2625

Everdon 30

Brackley3350

Byfield3330

Paulerspury72159

King's Cliffe and Nassington 71200

Borough Fen2775

Middleton 100

————

2,4534,703

III. PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

There is a Society in connexion with the Independent Churches, bearing the title of "The Provident Society for the Relief of Aged and Afflicted Ministers and their Families in the County of Northampton and its Connexions."

This Society was established in the year 1811: its funds at the present time amount to about £6,400, and they are receiving a small increase by annual collections and subscriptions, the interest of the funds being applied to the relief of the claimants.

In the year 1817, about six years after its establishment, the first claims were made; since that time, the sum of nearly £5,000 has been distributed to ministers and to the families of ministers who were members. The importance of this Society is amply proved by the extent of relief that claimants have received from its funds. Its management is conducted entirely free of expense, and it will be capable of rendering efficient aid to all its members who, in accordance with its rules, present their case for assistance at the annual meetings of its members.

IV.

The following list contains the names of the villages in the County that are supplied with Sabbath evening services, chiefly by the Independent Churches. Some of the villages have an afternoon service on the Sabbath, and some of them an occasional service on a week evening. The list is not to be regarded as quite complete. In some instances, the Independents unite with other denominations in supplying the villages in their vicinity.

Alderton.Loddington.

Barby.Mears Ashby.

Bowden, Great.Middleton.

Bozeat.Newborough.

Broughton.Orlingbury.

Cold Ashby.Oxendon.

Cransley.Peakirk.

Doddington.Rockingham.

Draughton.Scaldwell.

East Haddon.South Kilworth.

Farndon.Sutton Bassett.

Finedon.Swinford.

Floor.Tansor.

Geddington.Thorpe.

Glapthorne.Weston by Welland.

Glinton.Welham.

Grafton Regis.Warkton.

Great Oakley.Wilby.

Lubenham.Yardley Gobion.