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In 1538, under Henry the VIII., there were so many Baptists as to bring upon
themselves the fiercest hatred. f769
In 1549:
“the mild Cranmer, Ridley and others felt as much, nay, more horror struck at
an Anabaptist heretic than a dozen papal advocates.” “An ecclesiastical
commission in the beginning was issued out for the examination of
Anabaptists.” f770
“To stamp the character and principles of these troublers of the
commonwealth, the Legislature, closing its session in 1551, exempted the
Baptists from the pardon which was granted to those who had taken part in
the late rebellion.” f771
This was in the reign of Edward VI. Not long after this, under the reign of
Queen Mary:
“Intense as the hatred to the Reformers was, it did not diminish in intensity
when it hunted the Anabaptists from their seclusion. Nowhere were they safe.
Spies everywhere haunted their steps.” f772
Under Queen Elizabeth, in 1557, Bishop Cox wrote that “sectaries are showing
themselves mischievous and wicked interpreters. Of this kind are the
Anabaptists.” f773 Dr. Parker in his letter declining the Archbishopric of
Canterbury says: “They say that the realm is full of Anabaptists.” f774 This was
about 1560.:
“In the fourth year of her reign a proclamation was issued by the Queen
commanding the Anabaptists and such like heretics which had flocked to the
coast towns of England … and had spread the poison of their sects in
England, to depart the realm in twenty days.” f775
Of Marsden, Evans says:
“One of the latest, and, we are bound to say, one of the calmest and most
candid writers on the Puritanic history, says: ‘But the Anabaptists were the
most numerous, and for sometime the most formidable opponents of the
church. They are said to have existed in England since the days of the
Lollards.’” f773
“Dr. Wal, … seems anxious to persuade his readers that there were no
Baptists in England when Henry the VIII, ascended the throne at the
commencement of the sixteenth century, A.D. 1511. But upon that
supposition it is not easy to account for the sanguinary statutes which in the
early part of this reign were put forth against the Anabaptists. … If the
country did not abound with Baptists at this time why were those severe
measures enforced against them? … In 1536 the sect of the Anabaptists is
specified and condemned. In fact it is easy to trace the Baptists in England at