William Knowles

William Knowles ministered at Rushden, Northamptonshire, from 1752 until his death in 1794. The Rushden church was not a part of the Northamptonshire Association, although Fuller, Ryland, and others often preached there and were generally on good relations until the denial of a dismissal letter to one of its members in 1785 led to a heated letter exchange between the two churches (see Fuller’s diary entry for August 24, 1785).  See George E. Bayes, These Years Have Told: The Story of Park Road Baptist Church, Rushden (Rushden, Northamptonshire: Stanley L. Hunt, 1951), 13.