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1182 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
contained in Document 263, nos. 1-11 . In 1779 he was chosen one
of the trustees of the Swedish Church in London in company with
Messrs. Charles and Andrew Lindegren,17 and Consul Claes Grill ;112
and from the Anteckningar rörande Svenska Kyrkan i London
(Records of the Swedish Church in London), which were published
by Mr. G. W. Carlson in 1852, it appears that he obtained more
votes than Mr. Andrew Lindegren and Consul Claes Grill (see p. 86),
thus shewing in what estimation he was held by his Swedish countrymen
in London. He was a member of the church-council (kyrkorådet) as
early as 1769, when his name appears affixed to a memorial in which
the Swedish congregation explain the working of the old constitution
under which they were organized (p. 230). In 1771 his name appears
subscribed to a document in which the Swedish congregation of
London requests the Bishop of Skara to nominate to the King
Mr. A. Mathesius as their pastor (p. 247) ; thus showing that
Mr. Bergström was disposed in a very friendly manner towards the
Rev. A. Mathesius,118 concerning whom he afterwards testified to
Mr. Provo that he became insane while in the pulpit (Document 263,
no. 9, p. 538). His name appears signed to an additional document
(p. 249), in which the Swedish congregation petition the King in
favour of the Rev. A. Ferelius,119 requesting him to appoint him to
a vacant pastorate in West Gothland.
NOTE 225.
ROBERT HINDMARSH.
Mr. Hindmarsh’s name will for ever remain united to that of the
Church of the New Jerusalem, and also to the writings of the New
Church ; for he was the foremost man in the organization of the
separate New Church, and his name as publisher and printer, and
partly also as author is borne by most of the New Church writings
which were printed in the last century. He ranks also as one of
the most illustrious ministers of the New Church, and as one of its
principal champions and defenders in Great Britain ; while from his
work entitled the "Rise and Progress of the New Jerusalem Church,"
he must be regarded as its first systematic historian.
As Mr. Hindmarsh’s name is so intimately connected with the
printing of Swedenborg’s writings, both in the original Latin and
in English translations, his name is of frequent occurrence in Docu
ment 313, which contains a chronological account of these writings.
But he appears also as a collector of important testimony in respect
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