Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

“The Anabaptistical sect were very bold of late. They pressed into her
majesty’s presence; they complained to her highness of great persecution —
how justly your lordship knows — which by the queen’s commandment did
examine and commit them.” — Robert Some.
Says Benedict, quoting Jones:
“Towards the middle of the twelfth century, a small society of these Puritans,
as they were called by some, or Waldenses, as they were termed by others, or
Paulicians, as they are denominated by an old monkish historian — William
of Newbury — made their appearance in England. This latter writer speaking
of them, says: They came originally from Gascoyne, where being as
numerous as the sand of the sea, they sorely infested all France, Italy, Spain
and England.” f757
On the page whence this quotation is made, Benedict puts these down as:
“Baptists.” In former articles I have demonstrated them Baptists. Ivimey says:
“The archbishop farther informs us, on the authority of Matthew Paris, of
Westminster, that ‘the Berengarian or Waldensian heresy had, about the year
1180, generally infected all France, Italy and England. f757 Guitmond, a
popish writer of that time, also says that, ‘not only the weaker sort of the
country villages, but the nobility and gentry in the chief towns and cities were
infected therewith; and therefore Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, who
held this seat, both in the reigns of William the Conqueror, and his son,
William Rufus, wrote against them in the year 1087.’ The arch-bishop adds
from Poplinus’ history of France, that ‘the Waldenses of Aquitain did about
the year 1100, during their reign of Henry I, and Stephen, kings of England,
spread themselves and their doctrines all over Europe,’ and mentions England
in particular.” f758 Says the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia: “During the reigns
of Elizabeth and James, a large number of Baptists fled from Holland and
Germany, to England.” f759
Says the Penny Encyclopedia:
“Little is known of the Baptists in England before the sixteenth century. Their
name then appears among the various sects which were struggling for civil
and religious freedom. Their opinions at this early period were sufficiently
popular to attract the notice of the national establishment, as is evident from
the fact that at a convocation, held in 1536, they were denounced as detestable
heretics, to be utterly condemned. Proclamations allowed to banish the
Baptists from the kingdom, their books were burnt, and several individuals
suffered at the stake. The last person who was burnt in England was a
Baptist.” f760
Of the times before John Smyth, Froude says of the English Baptists: