ibrary of Lambeth Palace, London, a hitherto unpublished work, in
MS., entitled _The Retraction of Robert Brown_; which the author himself
describes as "A reproofe of certeine schismatical persons and their
doctrine touching the hearing and preaching of the Word of God." This
was written about the year 1588. It has now been published by permission
of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford University Press, 2/6 net), and
is described by the editor as "a sane and broad-minded" production.
[_Guardian Newspaper_, June 19, 1907.]

{80a} These particulars are gathered from the volume _Christian Sects of
the_ 19_th century_, published by W. Pickering, 1850.

{80b} Mann's _Religious Worship in England and Wales_, from the census
of 1851.

{80c} Only two copies of this pamphlet are known to exist; one in the
Library at Revesby Abbey; the other is in the possession of Mr. C. M.
Hodgett, of Horncastle, an officer of the chapel, having been given to
him by Miss Frances Robinson, a relative, presumably, of the author
"W.R.," otherwise William Robinson.

{80d} Letter of Rev. J. G. Crippen, of The Congregational Library
Memorial Hall, London, Dec., 1858.

{82} A fuller notice of Rev. T. Lord appears on page 89.

{84a} Written in prison, A.D. 1675.

{84b} Under what was called "The Five Mile Act."

{84c} The chapel generally regarded as the oldest in the kingdom is that
at Highthorne, in Kent, which dates from 1650.

{84d} There is a tradition that there was a chapel near the watermill,
but this was probably only a room retained for the convenience of those
who were "dipped" in the pit. Under date, Aug. 7, 1889, it is recorded,
as though a novel event, that at a special service in the evening, the
Lay Pastor, Mr. W. P. Milns, performed the ceremony of baptism, by
immersion, in the chapel, the baptized being an adult, _Horncastle News_,
August 10, 1889.

{85a} In 1876 the Horncastle Baptists joined the "Notts., Derby and
Lincoln Union," which proved a great help to them.

{85b} Among those present were Rev. M. C. Mason from Tura, Assam,
British India, a member of the American Missionary Union; Pasteur
Saillens, of the French Baptist community; Dr. B. D. Gray of Georgia,
U.S.A.; as well as delegates from Russia and Japan.

{91} For further information as to the origin of the school see
_addendum_ at the end of this chapter.

{92a} "Comorants," this is the Latin "Commorantes," meaning "temporarily
resident."