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At the University of Cambridge, Christ’s College graduates included Francis Johnson of the Ancient Church and John Smyth of Gainsborough. John Lathrop, second pastor of London’s J-L-J Church, was a Queens’ College graduate. Lathrop’s successor, Henry Jessey, earned his BA and MA degrees at St. John’s College. London Baptist, Hanserd Knollys, received his training at St. Catherine’s Hall. Roger Williams, Read more...
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In 1810, the London Baptist Education Society (est. 1752) led in the founding of Stepney Academy, in East London. Moving to the center of Regent’s Park, London, in 1855, Stepney Academy became Regent’s Park College, a constituent College of the University of London. In 1927, Regent’s Park College moved to Oxford, and since 1957, it has been a Permanent Private Read more...
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Bunhill Fields, at 38 City Road, was the Burying Ground for Dissenters. Here stand the tombs of key players in Baptist history: John Rippon, Joseph Ivimey, John Gill, and John Bunyan. Important Baptists whose tombstones here have been destroyed over time include Henry Jessey, Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and Vavasor Powell. See also the tombstones of notable non-Baptists, such as Read more...
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On London’s Clink Street, the Clink Museum stands at the ruins of this infamous prison, where John Greenwood, Henry Barrow, and Francis Johnson (of the “Ancient Church”), along with Henry Jacob, and John Lathrop (forerunners of Particular Baptists), all suffered incarceration, during 1587-1634. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Read more...
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Inside the Church of St. Sepulchre without Newgate, at Holborn Viaduct, a hand bell known as the Execution Bell, resides in a glass case, situated near the entrance of a blocked-up tunnel that once connected the church with Newgate Prison. At midnight prior to execution days, the church’s bellman would walk through the tunnel and into the prison. Standing outside Read more...