Excerpt from Vestiges of Protestant Dissent: Being Lists of Ministers, Sacramental Plate, Registers, Antiquities, and Other Matters Pertaining to Most of the Churches (and a Few Others) Included in the National Conference of Unitarian, Liberal Christian, Free Christian, PresbyterianHere, again, we come to a fruitful source of error. Especially in particulars of the earlier ministers. From a fairly long experience, the author thinks there is nothing more difficult, of its kind, than precisely to locate and time some of the ministers from 1662 to 1710. Care Should always be taken {is-distinguish between minister and assistant, and, above all, never to assume, without some authority, that the successor must of necessity have been appointed immediately his predecessor died, or ceased in his office as minister. In these pages more than ordinary care has been taken in this matter, but the author feels sure there must still be cases of inaccuracy, and he will feel obliged to anyone who will direct his attention to them.In hunting for particulars of a minister, and with little or no data to guide him, the historian cannot do better than first try to get the date of death. With this in his possession, he most frequently has the key which will unlock the treasure-house. Some biography or obituary will probably be found in local or denominational period icals about the time of death, or included in any funeral sermon which may have been printed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.