Note 91 — Chapter IV

I copied these extracts many years ago from the old Church books, now unfortunately lost. In the State Paper Office, under date of the 2nd February, 1682, there is a long report of the political sentiments of people in different parts of Norfolk, in which report,—besides mention of the Anabaptists and the Quakers worshipping under one roof, and of a clergyman in the Commission of the Peace, an itinerant Justice, “who rides all the circuit, and makes disturbances wherever he comes by his pragmaticalness and unskilfulness in the laws”—a reference is made to Dr. Collinges, a very respectable Presbyterian minister at Norwich, and it is suggested, “were he removed, it is probable many of that sect would fall off.”