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3 unusual facts about Henry Jessey


Llanvaches

He set up his Congregationalist chapel, "according to the New England pattern", completed in 1639, with the help of the leading Dissenter, Henry Jessey.

Walter Cradock

Since royalist forces then occupied Bristol, in 1643, some moved again to London, and made contact with Henry Jessey, who had been a supporter of the congregation from the start; Cradock preached with Jessey at All-Hallows-the-Great.

William Wroth

His new chapel in Llanvaches was organised "according to the New England pattern" - that is, Congregational - and was completed that same year with the help of the fellow leading Dissenter, Henry Jessey.



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