A Nursery of Elizabethan Nonconformity, 1567–72

1966/04/01 by H. Gareth Owen
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #American Constitutional Law and Politics

paper · doi:10.1017/s0022046900051356

Abstract

‘About that time [1567–8] there were many congregations of the Anabaptists in London, who called themselves Puritans or Unspotted Lambs of the Lord. They kept their church in the Minories without Aldgate’. This paper is an attempt to develop the clue handed down to us by John Stow to the location of an early—if not the earliest—thoroughgoing nonconformist congregation within the Elizabethan Church. Considering the length of time it has been in print, it is a clue strangely neglected by historians both of nonconformity and of London during this period.

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