Note 441 — Chapter XIV

Lansdowne M.S., 115, art. 55. Lord Keeper Bacon had a chaplain of Puritan tendencies. See Strype's Parker, ii. 69. Lady Bacon shewed her learning and Protestant zeal by translating Jewel's Apology,—Ibid., i. 354.

The Rev. Thomas Hill, late of Cheshunt, informs me:—"It is undeniable that there was a congregation of Separatists as early as the days of Elizabeth, in the neighbourhood of Theobalds. One or more of the ministers suffered persecution and imprisonment, but I do not think it improbable that the influence of Cecil, Lord Burleigh, who then resided at Theobalds, may have afforded some degree of protection to the Nonconformists of the neighbourhood."