Minutes of the Committee of the Independent Union, held at Mosley Street, Manchester, on 22nd October 1806:

Resd:  that Mr. Greatbatch be directed to remove immediately from Newboro to the Meols in order to labour more in that neighbourhood than heretofore; that greater vigour attend his exertions; that he preach more frequently; and that he regularly transmit to the Secretary an account of the numbers of his hearers where and whensoever he preached.

Resd:  that the Committee can do nothing more at this meeting with regard to the Meols, as they have not received information about that place from Messrs. Sharpe (of St. Helens) and Toothill (of Rainford) as expected.

 
Minutes of the Committee Meeting held on Dec 15th 1806:

Resolved, that Mr. Greatbatch be allowed £60 for the next year as an auxiliary to what the people at the Meols have promised to raise him; and that if Mr. Greatbatch do not accede to this resolution, he be allowed according to his original agreement at the rate of £80 per annum for the next six months (viz £40), and that then he provide himself with another situation.

 
First General Meeting at Liverpool on March 17th and 18th, 1807:

Resolved, that only two sermons be preached at the next annual meeting to allow more time for business.

Resolved, that the itinerant be allowed a fixed stipend and his reasonable travelling  expenses.

Resd:  that Mr. Greatbatch be allowed the annual stipend of £80 including the subscriptions at the Meols; to commence from this day the 18th March.

Resd:  that Mr. Greatbatch be engaged from this day for the term of one year.

 
Minutes of the Committee Meeting held on August 5th 1808:

Resolved, that the sum of £1..0..0 be laid out for the schools at the Meols.

Resolved, that Mr. Greatbatch be directed to apply to the Secretary of the London Sunday School Society for a supply of books.

 
Minutes of the Second General Meeting held at Mosley Street Chapel, Manchester, on April 26th and 27th, 1808:

Resd:  that the Itinerants be requested to send monthly an account of the number that attend at each Meeting at their respective places.

Resd:   that a letter be written to those congregations who have omitted to send in their collections, requesting them in future to be more regular.

Resd:   that Mr. Greatbatch be continued at the Meols.

Resd:   that a subscription be immediately entered into to enable the Committee to secure a place of worship in which the people now assemble at North Meols.

 
Minutes of the Committee Meeting at Mosley Street Chapel, Manchester on Sept 14th 1808:

Resolved, that the following Gentlemen be Trustees for the North Meols Chapel  viz Messrs John Potter, Darwen,  Barton Haigh, Liverpool,  James Holt Heron, Manchester and Wm King, Manchester, and that the Conveyance be made absolutely to them, although understood to be in trust to save the expense of enrolment, that the same be completed forthwith.  



 
Comment:
It would appear that the Committee who met on Dec 15th 1806 gave Mr. Greatbatch the equivalent of what would be regarded today as a formal disciplinary warning.

The first two Resolutions of the Second General Meeting held in April 1808 set the tone of subsequent exhortations to local Churches.
GHL