[99] Richard Bellingham (1592?-1672) was Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts from 1635, and Governor from 1665 to his death.
[100] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 80). The Journal appears in full in The Friend (Phila.), lxxvii. (1904), 204.
[101] Patrick Livingstone (????-1694) was born at Angus in Scotland, and was convinced in the North of England in 1658. He travelled in the ministry with James Halliday (F.P.T. 201). In later years he lived in Nottingham and London. See Jnl. F.H.S. vii. 184.
[102] Given in his Truth Owned, 1667, pp. 6ff.
[103] Justice Matthew Babington lived at Rotherby, Leics. He was an ancestor of Lord Macaulay. Mary Radley states that he was the “Some Justice” addressed by E. Hooton (D. Portfolio iii. 6). He appears in Besse’s book of Sufferings as a persecutor (i. 335).
[104] See Jnl. F.H.S. v. 140.
[105] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 33), dated “13ᵗʰ day of 6ᵗʰ Month 1667,” and endorsed: “El. Hooton to some Spirits who were gone out from yᵉ trueth.” At the close of the paper occur the names: “Eliza: Barnes & Rose Atkinson” (see Camb. Jnl.).
[106] Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1697/8) and John Reeve (1608-1658) announced themselves the “two witnesses” of Rev. xi. 3. The sect of the Muggletonians was never very numerous, but it still exists, sharing with the Quakers the distinction of being the only survivals of those numerous religious bodies which sprang into existence during Commonwealth times.
[107] A Volume of Spiritual Epistles written by John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton, printed 1755, reprinted 1820, p. 227.
[108] MS. in D. (Portfolio iii. 67) This is printed at the end of addresses to the King, and to the King and both Houses of Parliament, by Thomas Taylor. The first is dated 1st of December, 1670.