[71b] In addition to the authorities already named, we are indebted for much of the information here given to an account by Mr. Watson Joll, in the Methodist Recorder of Aug. 27, 1903, and to an article by the late Mr. W. Pacy, in the Lincoln Gazette of Aug. 20, 1898.
[71c] Religious Worship in England and Wales, by H. Mann, from the census of 1851.
[72] Within comparatively recent times a Primitive Chapel at Thimbleby was commonly called “The Ranters” Chapel.
[73] Life of the Venerable Hugh Bourne, by Rev. Jesse Ashworth, 1888; also History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, by Rev. H. B. Kendall, B.A.
[74] The Venerable William Clowes, a sketch, by Thomas Guttery.
[78] In connection with Robert Brown’s writings it may be of interest to note, that in the year 1907, an American scholar, Mr. Champlin Burrage, of the Newton Theological Institution, of Massachusetts, discovered in the Library of Lambeth Palace, London, a hitherto unpublished work, in MS., entitled The Retraction of Robert Brown; which the author himself describes as “A reproofe of certeine schismatical persons and their doctrine touching the hearing and preaching of the Word of God.” This was written about the year 1588. It has now been published by permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford University Press, 2/6 net), and is described by the editor as “a sane and broad-minded” production. [Guardian Newspaper, June 19, 1907.]
[80a] These particulars are gathered from the volume Christian Sects of the 19th century, published by W. Pickering, 1850.
[80b] Mann’s Religious Worship in England and Wales, from the census of 1851.
[80c] Only two copies of this pamphlet are known to exist; one in the Library at Revesby Abbey; the other is in the possession of Mr. C. M. Hodgett, of Horncastle, an officer of the chapel, having been given to him by Miss Frances Robinson, a relative, presumably, of the author “W.R.,” otherwise William Robinson.
[80d] Letter of Rev. J. G. Crippen, of The Congregational Library Memorial Hall, London, Dec., 1858.