{"id":2778,"date":"2015-02-06T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2778"},"modified":"2015-02-06T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:07:00","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-osgathorpe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2778","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Osgathorpe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osgathorpe in a small village in north Leicestershire, about 8 miles west of Loughborough<\/p>\n<p>The house of Willliam Rabins, a Presbyterian, was licensed for dissenting meetings in 1672.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> There were no nonconformists enumerated in 1676.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>General Baptists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A meeting of 25 General Baptists was recorded in 1829, assembling in a single room.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> There was no return to the 1851 Religious census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primitive Methodists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1829, 20 Primitive Methodists met in a room in the village.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> There was no return to the 1851 Religious census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wesleyan Methodists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Wesleyan congregation met in 1829, numbering some 30 people.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> A chapel was built in 1835, with 100 free and 29 other sittings. The only service on census Sunday in 1851 was held in the afternoon, and attended by 35 worshippers.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Return to <\/b><a title=\"Protestant Nonconformity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=389\">Protestant Nonconformity: A-Z<\/a><\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> F. Bate, <i>The Declaration of Indulgence 1672: A Study in the Rise of Organised Dissent<\/i> (London, 1908)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> A. Whiteman, <i>The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/i> (London, 1986), p. 330<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> ROLLR, QS 95\/2\/1\/81<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> ROLLR, QS 95\/2\/1\/81<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> ROLLR, QS 95\/2\/1\/81<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> TNA, HO 129\/414\/54<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osgathorpe in a small village in north Leicestershire, about 8 miles west of Loughborough The house of Willliam Rabins, a Presbyterian, was licensed for dissenting meetings in 1672.[1] There were no nonconformists enumerated in 1676.[2] General Baptists A meeting of 25 General Baptists was recorded in 1829, assembling in a single room.[3] There was no 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