William Bousfield

William Bousfield and Samuel Favell operated a slop shop at 12 St. Mary Axe, not far similar manufactories operated by other Baptists and like-minded dissenters: George Brounger at 27 Houndsditch; and Thomas, Joseph, and Sergeant Smith at 126 Houndsditch (most likely all three of the Smiths were Baptists, but Sergeant is the only one that appears in the membership list for John Rippon’s congregation at Carter Lane in the mid-1780s. Later he was a member at Little Prescot Street, Goodman's Fields). Favell, Bousfield, Brounger, and Thomas Smith were all associated with the founding of the Protestant Dissenting School at Mill Hill, with Favell serving for many years as Treasurer and Bousfield, Smith, and Brounger appearing as committee members at various times (Smith was sub-treasurer in 1810).   See Church Book, Horsley-down and Carter Lane, 1719-1808; Little Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields, Church Book, 1784-1832, unpaginated, Evangelical Library, London; Roderick Braithwaite, The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation, 1807-2007 (Chichester, UK: Phillimore & Co., 2006).