Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Price, after a course of study at Cheshunt College, laboured in Madagascar from 1875 to 1882, and has since held pastorates at Lenham, Buckingham, and Ross; and Rev. Benjamin Thomas Butcher, also a Cheshunt student, was appointed in 1904 to New Guinea, where he is still labouring. The distinguished philanthropist, Thomas Thompson (founder of the first Sailors' Home, and for forty years treasurer of the Home Missionary Society), and his daughter, known in every Sunday School as Jemima Luke, were also in Dr. Collyer's time members of the congregation. BERMONDSEY JAMAICA ROW (1662) Soon after the middle of the seventeenth century, when Bermondsey was a pleasant stretch of gardens, and orchards and fields, James Janeway was a student of Christ Church, Oxford. He was born at Lilley, in Hertfordshire, in 1636. At eight years of age he removed to Harpenden, and afterwards settled at Kelshall, where his father was minister. He was of a weak constitution ; his four brothers all like himself entered the ministry, and all like himself were destined to an early grave. Being driven from the University by persecution, Janeway resided for some time at Windsor, as private tutor, and then removed to Bermondsey. Close by the house where he lived, in Salisbury Place, stood a large Rhv. James Janeway, Bermonosey. building known as the Jamaica Barn, capable, it is said, of holding 2,000 persons. It must have required no little faith and courage for a delicate young man of twenty-six to venture on so large a building ; but Janeway took the barn and opened it as a meeting house. The results justified him, for Calamy says that he had a very numerous auditory, and a great reformation was wrought amongst many. But this only enraged the anti-puritan party, and several attempts were mad...