[452] His name is spelt in different ways.
[453] The church of which Lathrop was minister is said to have been formed in Southwark; if so, the fact of its now assembling in Blackfriars shews how, in times of persecution, the places of meeting were changed according to circumstances. As they had no chapels, and were proscribed by law, they met where they could.
[454] His name was ordinarily spelt "ten," although it stands "tin" in the MS. He was Judge of the Prerogative Court, and father of Henry Marten.
[455] Dr. Thomas Rives was the King's Advocate.
[456] In an interesting volume, just published by Dr. Waddington, entitled Surrey Congregational History, the following entries taken from the records of the High Commission in relation to Lathrop and Eaton, at a later date, are inserted, p. 20:—"June 12, 1634. John Lathrop, of Lambeth Marsh. Bond to be certified, and to be attached, if he appear not on the next Court-day.—June 19, 1634. Bond ordered to be certified, and he to be attached for non-appearance.—October 9. Samuel Eaton and John Lathrop to be attached for non-appearance, and bonds to be certified.—February 19, 1634-5. Samuel Eaton and John Lathrop, for contempt, in not appearing to answer articles touching their keeping conventicles. Their bonds ordered to be certified, and they attached and committed."
[457] The Brownist's Synagogue, 1641.
[458] Henry Jacob, probably, is the first who used the term independent in relation to a Christian Church. "Each congregation," he says, "is an entire and Independent body politic, and endowed with power immediately under and from Christ, as every proper Church is and ought to be."—Declaration and Plainer Opening of Certain Points, &c., 1611, p. 13.
[459] I am indebted for this and other extracts from the Yarmouth Corporation Records to a MS. history of the Yarmouth Church, compiled by my friend, the late Mr. Davey, of that town.
[460] The words printed in italics are underscored in the copy from which these extracts are transcribed.
[461] This Confession is described, and extracts from it are given in Hanbury, i. 293. It is attributed to Henry Jacob.