Revd. John Guise 1705 - 1727

He was a resident of Hertford.  His twenty-two year ministry at the Hertford Congregational church was a great success.  Some eighty members joined the church during his pastorate.  However, he had his problems.  It would seem that morality was at a very low ebb in the eighteenth century, "Christianity in England had almost ceased to count..." (Silvester Horne).  It is not surprising that our church passed through a trying period