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Collier says that in 1538:
“Some few who were Dutch Baptists — three men and a woman — had
faggots tied to their backs at Pauls’ Cross; and one woman and one man of the
same sect were burnt at Smithfield. Cranmer … with some others, had a
commission from the king to try some Anabaptists; which by comparing the
dates of the commission with that of the execution we may conclude the trial
passed upon the persons above mentioned.” f746
Of this same commission, Collier says:
“They had likewise an authority to seize all Ana-baptist books, to forbid the
reading of them, to burn and destroy them as they thought fit.” f747
May, 1575:
“On Easter day … a conventicle of Dutch Baptists was discovered at a house
without the bars at Oldgate. Twenty-seven of them were seized and
committed.” f748
Bishop Thomas Vowler Short says, that in 1549:
“Complaints had been brought to the council of the prevalence of Anabaptists.
… To check the progress of these opinions a commission was appointed.” f749
Of the Baptists in England, Cramp says:
“Ten were burned by pairs in different places in 1535, and fourteen more in
1536. In 1538, six Dutch Baptists were detected and imprisoned; two of them
were burned. Bishop Latimer refers to these circumstances in a sermon
preached before Edward the VI., in the year 1549. ‘The Anabaptists,’ said he,
‘that were burnt here in divers towns in England — as I heard of credible
men, I saw them not myself — went to their death even intrepid, as you will
say, without any fear in the world, cheerfully. Well, let them go.’” f750
“There is some reason to believe that a Baptist church existed in Cheshire at a
much earlier period. If we may credit the traditions of the place, the church at
Hill Cliffe is five hundred years old. A tombstone has been lately dug up in
that burial ground, belonging to that church, bearing date 1357. The origin of
the church is assigned in the ‘Baptist Manual’ to the year 1523. This,
however, is certain that Mr. Warburton, pastor of the church died there in
‘591. How long the church had then been in existence, there are no written
records to testify.” f751
“Henry the VIII had a keen scent for heresy.” He continued the bitter
persecution against the Baptists.
“The hatred to Baptists was farther shown in excepting them from the general
acts of pardon. Such acts were published in 1538, 1540 and 1550, but those
who held that ‘infants ought not to be baptized were excluded from the