Candidates' and Discipline committee minute book

Labelled 'Minutes of Examination Vol 2'. Corrected typed version of index inserted at front. Pages 1-128: Unsigned minutes of the meetings 'of the Preachers of the London Districts for the Examination of Missionary Candidates' from 9 September 1829 until 9 July 1841. Examination of missionary (and...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Candidates Papers/FBN 43 (fiche 1908-1912)
Date(s) of creation: 9 Sep 1829-15 Apr 1864
Level: File
Format: Archive           

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recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS/Special Series/Candidates Papers/FBN 43 (fiche 1908-1912)
callnumber MMS/01/01/10/01
callnumber_txt MMS/01/01/10/01
callnumber-sort MMS/01/01/10/01
prefix_number 01
title Candidates' and Discipline committee minute book
scb_date_creation 9 Sep 1829-15 Apr 1864
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 1 volume
format Archive
scb_admin_history Information on candidates usually includes: name; age; involvement with Methodist Church; status (health, marital, financial), whether accepted or not accepted. Sometimes mentions current occupation and quality of preaching. Disciplinary cases include: theological dissent; marrying without permission; breach of promise; sexual misconduct; immoral conduct; involvement with political or 'temporal affairs'; intoxication; financial irregularities; travelling without Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society's consent or contrary to its wishes. Committee of Discipline also reviews cases of retirement on the grounds of ill-health.
description Labelled 'Minutes of Examination Vol 2'. Corrected typed version of index inserted at front. Pages 1-128: Unsigned minutes of the meetings 'of the Preachers of the London Districts for the Examination of Missionary Candidates' from 9 September 1829 until 9 July 1841. Examination of missionary (and occasionally assistant missionary) candidates. Includes a few disciplinary cases, usually having been referred by missionary districts, and often brief in detail. Pages 129-135: Blank. Pages 136-256: Unsigned minutes of the meetings of the Committee of Discipline from 11 July 1843 until 15 April 1864. Rear of volume has index. Between index entries are minutes of the Committee for Discipline from 22 April until 4 August 1864, and a meeting of 8 August 1862.
scb_arrangement A previous arrangement of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society archive had placed this minute book under Special Series. As a committee involved with the management of the WMMS it more appropriately belongs within the minutes series of the Home and General sub-sub-collection. Microfiche references, however, remain unchanged.
scb_access_status Open
scb_conditions_gov_access Only to be viewed on microfiche.
scb_copyright Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs Bound volume
scb_related_material Some additional candidate material for the 1840s, mainly in the form of examination books, is available on the same microfiche.
note No earlier volume is known to be extant.
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0001.0001.0010.0001

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