Hi aghadowey
You’re right to pick me up on this.
My comment arose from a footnote in the article referred to in my earlier post which quotes from Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour’s “The Life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon. By a member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings” (2 vols,1839), ii , 163 as follows:
“ ... with the sanction and advice of Mr. Shirley, the old Presbyterian meeting-house, in Plunket street, was rented. For several years before its dissolution the church was in a very low state: the sentiments and preaching of the ministers who officiated were extremely unpopular, and but ill adapted to preserve the church from a languishing condition. After some feeble attempts to revive the expiring interest, the society dissolved, and the meeting-house was disposed of to Lady Huntingdon.”
I have not followed up this reference but given that it was made by a biographer of Lady Huntingdon one perhaps needs to be cautious about how much weight to give to it - it is possible that there may be a particular religious bias to the assertions made about the Plunket Street ministers.
