[246] See generally upon this subject Underhill’s Confessions of Faith, and Gould’s Introduction to St. Mary’s Case. The latter writer, who has carefully studied the subject, says, “The history of the Baptists in England has yet to be written.”
[247] See p. 75 of this vol.
[248] State Papers, 1676, April 8. Appended to this document is an unsigned letter, addressed to the same person, whose name was Warner, expostulating with him for absenting himself from communion, because he was dissatisfied with the writer.
[249] The history of the controversy is itself a subject of controversy. I cannot notice it. The question is ably argued on both sides in the Report of St. Mary’s Norwich Chapel Case. The character and limits of this work prevent me from entering more fully into Baptist affairs. The most learned representatives of that denomination seem to be dissatisfied with all the books which relate their own history.
[250] Broadmead Records, 189–221, 458, 459.
[251] Hist. of Friends, ii. 448 and 442.
[252] Pope’s Life of Ward.
[253] North’s Lives, i. 296, 279.
[254] Barwick’s Life, 302. I find the following in the Cambridge University Library:—“Negotium Consecrationis Sacelli palatio Episcopali Norw. pertinentis.”
“May 16, 1672. The chapel was built and adorned at Bp. Reynolds’ expense, having been demolished in the Civil War. Consecration of the reading-desk, pulpit, and altar. Sermon by Jno. Conant, D.D., the Bishop’s son-in-law, the Bishop being disabled by illness.”—Baker MSS., 40, 5. Cat. v. 478.