Background
Fynch was born about 1628, and entered the ministry about 1648.
Fynch was born about 1628, and entered the ministry about 1648.
He was ejected from the vicarage of Tetney, Lincolnshire, by the uniformity act of 1662. On the issuing of the indulgence of 1672, Fynch took out a license to preach in the house of Nicholas Withers, in Saint Clement"son He became pastor of the independent congregation in succession to John Cromwell (d April 1685).
Their meeting-place was the west granary in Saint Andrew"s parish.
Fynch removed his flock to a brewhouse in Saint Edmund"s parish, which he fitted up as a meeting-house. And after the passing of the Toleration Acting (1689) he secured a site in Saint Clement"s parish, being "part of the Friars" great garden", on which a handsome building was erected (finished 1693), originally known as the "New Meeting", but since 1756 called the "Old Meeting".
Fynch suffered from failing eyesight, and was a victim to calculus. He died on 13 February 1697 (ie 1698), and was buried in the graveyard on the north side of his meeting-house, immediately behind the pulpit.
The epitaph on his flat tombstone is the main authority for the dates of his biography.
After his death there was a rupture in his congregation, which lasted for twenty years.
Fynch preached Collinges"s funeral sermon, and defended his memory in reply to a pamphlet by Thomas Grantham (1634–1692).