In 1744, when England was threatened with a French invasion,
a number of loyal addresses were presented to the King,
and among them one from the "United Brethren in England,
in union with the ancient Protestant Episcopal Bohemian and Moravian church,"
a designation selected after long and careful discussion
as to a true term which would avoid placing them among the Dissenters
from the Church of England.
When the Moravians took over the Yorkshire Societies in 1742
they established headquarters at Smith House, near Halifax,
but this not proving permanently available, Ingham, in 1744,
bought an estate near Pudsey, where the Moravians planted
a settlement which they called "Lamb's Hill", later "Fulneck".
In 1746 and 1749 Ingham presented to the Moravians the ground on which
the Chapel and two other houses stood, but for the rest they paid him
an annual rent. The property is now held of Ingham's descendents
on a lease for five hundred years.
In 1753 Ingham withdrew from his close association with the Moravians,
and established a new circle of societies, himself ordaining
the ministers who served them. These societies flourished for a while,
but about 1759 Ingham became imbued with the doctrines of a certain Sandeman,
and the result was the almost total wrecking of his societies.
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