* Marginal note, written in an ink that has faded to brown, running down the length of the page:

Memorandum.

My father wrote his name Raistrigge; and others of our relations Raystrygge. But we had a kinsman of our Name at London, an occulist, who told us that we wrote our Name wrong; and that it should be as he wrote his; that is, Rastrick: for that the Family was originally of Rastrick of Yeland parish near Halifax in Yorkshire. And he sent us down our Coat of Arms, desiring it might be kept by the eldest of the Family, which is, A chevern betwixt three Roses Gulles on a Field Argent with a Mullet or Star Sable; the whole encircled with two green lawrell branches and a crest Or. Tradition told us, that the first Rastrick at Heckington came out of York-shire (which possibly he might do with packhorses to Norwich as they do at this day) and settled at a House on the North side of Heckington called Boston-garth. That he had four Sons, and each of them a Son, one of whom my great Uncle George, I knew. Tradition also told us, that one, the only one left, of the Family in Yorkshire marryed a Gentlewoman that would not have him except he changed his Name, which he did, and wrote himself by that new Name she imposed on him (which what it was I have forgot) with an alias Rastrick. Upon the

* Marginal note, continued from previous page: Information & Advice of our London Relation before mentioned it was that I altered the writing of our Name: Besides also that as it was before, it seemed to me to be scarce consistent with any Orthography, and occasioned peoples miscalling us Rastridg. For which reason Mr Gataker changed his Name from Gatacre as may be seen in his Life published by Clark.

* Marginal note: * One of my Schoolfellows at Grantham was the Son of one Peters an inhabitant of the part called Holland. His father sent him to Oxford, and purchased the next advowson of a great living, Hougham, not far from Grantham of some hundreds of pounds per annum: But at Oxford his Son dyed. When the living fell, he had a daughter that he designed to marry to one Mr Seccar, Minister of Bloxham, and so give her the living for her portion: But before he could be possessed, Mr Seccar fell sick and dyed. In his Sickness it was contrived and designed that if he dyed his Brother Mr Seccar a Physician should take Holy Orders and marry the Daughter But within a week or ten days (after Mr Sec. the Minister dyed,) this Brother of his, Mr Seccar the Physician dyed also! And I was at Sleeford when Mr Peters went weeping up the Angel yard for this disappointment: And all men were amazed that a three-fold cord should be so broken. Thus God declared against this corruption in the Church. Lord! when wilt thou cast the Buyers and Sellers out of thy Temple?²¹

* Marginal note: Matthew Wolmer of Swineshead Esq.

* Marginal note, in pencil and probably later: his handwriting in greek.

* Marginal note: Add to these, that I never felt the weight of my Masters hand at Grantham but once, and that was for rambling out one Lord's Day 3 or 4 miles into the Country with two more of my own Towns boys in fruit time.

* Marginal note: * particularly their Bowing: against which I entred a remark, in a notebook. pag. 25.

* Marginal note: possibly it may be ill done of Schoolmasters to cause youth to read Books by the halfs; when (at Schools) they cause boys to learn only 20 or 30 leaves of Virgil; and 6 or 10 leaves of Homer; and one Evangelist it may be of the New Testament and then put them into other Books.

* Marginal note: * Reason of Christian Religion page 299.

* Marginal note: * Preface to Saints Rest. Direct. 1^st.

* Marginal note: * At the end of Dr Harris's Life.

* Marginal note: * In his Life.

* Marginal note: The Lord pardon the Irreverance of my ignorant youth. I will not lay my Sin upon God.

* Marginal note: By this it may be judged how improper it is to force men to Sacraments by external penaltys.

* Marginal note: * explicitly, or emphatically.

* Marginal note: * unfitness by their scandalous Sin to give their children a Title to Baptism was more plain (as it follows.)

* Marginal note: See the 20^th Article against Mr Cartwright in Fullers Church History of Britain Book 9. page 200.

* Marginal note: Mr Pues of Suffolk.

* Marginal note: * at Christmas An. D. 1681

A line below, another marginal note: And my giving the Sacrament at the same time to Mr Richardson a worthy Non. Con. Minister sitting did very much provoke him as appeared by his talk!¹⁶⁶

* Marginal note: though I bore him no ill will in all I did

* Marginal note: * holding all the essentials of Christianity.

* Marginal note: * And though they came not to the Church they failed not to Worship God in their own Assemblies.

* Marginal note: Vicar of great Hale

* Marginal note:

Mr <Jeremy> Vasin <Rector> of Skirbeck.

Mr Male Rector of Folkingham.

Mr Male Rector of Ormesby

Mr <William> Laughton Rector of Somerby

Mr Cooper Rector of Pickworth

Mr Cheyney Vicar of Kirkton.

Mr Johnson Vicar of Spalding.

* Marginal note: * & disliked by many

* Marginal note: * viz. that the ancient Bishops sat with their Presbyters in their governing Acts &c.

* Marginal note, perhaps intended to be inserted as the subsequent paragraph: So February 25. 1683 I received a letter from a Principal Member of the Company of Mercers with the Offer of Reepham Living near Lincoln but refused it. And this I add that no man may say that I turned Non Conformist for Bread; or because I could get no preferment in the Church of England. Few Meetings would afford me the Maintainance which I had in my Living.

* Marginal note: * Save that once he awakned and said, He thought I would never have done Babling.

* Marginal note: Now if I could not be quiet in the Exercise of my Ministry without such rude and violent Assaults as these it was very hard.

* Marginal note: So did Sir John Oldfield of Spalding against Mr Talents Vicar of Moulton (Brother to the worthy Non Conformist Talents at Shrowsbury) for some such like matters.¹⁹⁸

* Marginal note: But what Care was taken at the Reformation to turn the Altars into Tables, and for what Reasons; see Fox's Acts & Monuments Volume 2. page 699, 700.²⁰³

* Marginal note: * So in the more moderate and sincerely pious Sort of Dissenters if they dare not come up to every point of Lay Conformity, Or the Ministers if they do not indulge them notwithstanding.

* Marginal note, perhaps an alternative way of phrasing this: We are first stroaked and blinded till a Bishop get upon our backs and then whipped and spurred and ridden breathless.

* Marginal note: not haveing any Copy I cannot now account for that Answer.

* Marginal note: * Saving this great difference that Circumcision had been of Gods Institution and so might be with more reluctancy parted with &c.

* Note, running along the very top of the page: What the Reformers thought of sinful Oaths see Sleidan (English.) page 216 bottom, and page 341. line 28.²¹⁶

* Marginal note: Said ArchBishop Cranmer in a Speech of his to the Lords about the necessity of Reformation If any common error had passed upon the World, when that came to be discovered every one was at liberty to shake it off even though they had sworn to maintain that error.

Burnets Abridgment Hist Ref. page 141. top.

A man is bound in Conscience to reverse and disclaim that which he was induced unlawfully to engage himself by Oath to perform.

Bp Hall prop. concerning Oaths and Covenants before his Episc. by div. Right. prop. G.²¹⁷

* Marginal note: * Baxter Reformed Pastor preface page 3 line 21 Hildersham on Psalm 52 Lecture 34 page 171. Doctr.²¹⁸

* Marginal note: Since the writing hereof I find that November 27. was the very day that Mr Richard Capel quit his Pastoral Charge after the same manner i.e. voluntarily without being thrown out. Life page 263.²²⁰

* Marginal note: At least (said Bp Bedel) I shall have the better reason and suffer cause to resign to his Majesty the jurisdiction which I am not permitted to manage.

Letter to ArchBishop Usher in the Life of Bishop Bedel page 107.²²⁴

* Marginal note: and they but few people of their own to preach.

* Marginal note: I did not resolve to lay aside my work, For I was well assured it was my Duty to preach notwithstanding I could not do it in a publick capacity or Station. Mr Baxter's Apology for the Non Conformists Preaching I could not Answer And though Dr Stillingfleet say upon occasion of the confessed difference betwixt the case of Ministers and people how the former can preach lawfully to a people who commit a fault in hearing them I do not understand (in his Sermon of the Mischief of Separation) I think it is as plain on the contrary way How the people can commit a fault in hearing where it is the Minister's duty to preach I do not understand.²²⁶

* Marginal note: Here I asked the Bishop's leave to Baptize children in private without bringing them to the church afterwards, and I obteined it.

* Marginal note: * Or but very seldom as when I was at Lynn.

* Marginal note: When I was at Spalding, we had many of Mr Jos. Allein's Calls to the Unconverted (Reprinted with the Title of a Sure Guide to Heaven) to give away amongst the poor and ignorant that would be willing to recieve and read them. One of my Friends giving one of these to a boy that served at the Georg Inn it came to the Sight of Sir John Oldfield (a wicked persecutor) who examining the boy where he had it, and thereby finding out him that did distribute them immediately issued out his Warrant and Committed my friend to Prison for dispersing unlicensed Books as he pretended. But fearing that would not warrant what he had done, he got some to read it to see if any thing could be found in the book it Self to ground his persecution upon: but finding nothing (save that the Lawyers that read said it were enough to make one mad) he after a few days released my friend; who put it up, and never presented the Justice for false Imprisonment. But all men inquiring what that book was that Mr Johnson was imprisoned for? it promoted the Spreading of it and made it to be much more read than otherwise it would have been.²⁶⁵

^† Marginal note: † And, by the way, this was the reason why Parkhurst Bishop of Norwich did not approve of placing Bishop Jewels works in all churches for the popishly affected would find all Harding in it. &c. See Strypes Life of ArchBishop Parker. page 369r²⁶⁹

* Marginal note: * all which has been related before.

* Marginal note: And so for the Twenty pound per annum that Mr Peast boasted he had hindred me of God gave me three Twentys.

* Marginal note: Which was Anno Domini 1674.

At which time I thought I should have lost my Degree and all my Money I had payd; not dareing to appear at my Call at the Passing of it, because I understood not, and was not satisfyed about the Oath that was put upon such as went up before me. When all was over I spoke to the Procter about it not knowing but that all was lost. But upon better Satisfaction, I passed next morning. God (I thank him) had not abandoned me to a seared profligate Conscience.

* Marginal note: * Or Systeme

* Marginal note: * Wisdom 11.20.

* Marginal note: At last Anno 1714 at 64 years of age I got Stephanus's Greek Conc.

* Marginal note: Or if it was on a wast paper not divided into Columns I put the Doctrine and Explication at the top the Reasons about the middle and the Uses at the bottom of the paper leaving room enough for the Heads of each.

* Marginal note: On our Marriage Night our Friends and Relations had unexpectedly got my wife to Bed (I not knowing) before we had gone to prayers: This troubled me I made her rise again to prayer, which I after found I had no need to do.

* Marginal note: In this distemper being one night very weary sick and restless I went earlyer than ordinary to prayers in my family with much affection devolving my Self upon God: I was suddenly from that very hour better, rode to Stamford next morning with great ease, dined at Sir Richard Custs by the way where the first Recovery of my Appetite begun and by God's blessing on the Means Mr Richardson prescribed I grew soon well and healthfull. Blessed be God.

* Marginal note: Upon which accounts Mr Brocklesby said it would be best for me that she were boarded out and named her Brother Wilson's as a fit place. but this Course was not taken.

* Marginal note: * as should seem best to his Godly Wisdom.

* Marginal note: For I then read Dr Manton on the 119 Psalm and Dr Spurstow on the Promises &c. for my direction and Assistance in this Duty.⁴⁰³

* Marginal note: And an Excellent Mother in Law to my other children

¹ This sheet, which is glued to the cover, appears to be a letter addressed to John Rastrick. The visible side is that bearing his address, but the only visible letters are ‘astrick att’ and, below, ‘in’.

² Rastrick, John, An Account of the Nonconformity of John Rastrick, M.A. (London, 1705)Google Scholar, which appears to have been printed both separately and as the final volume of Calamy, Edmund, A Defence of Moderate Non-conformity, 3 vols (London, 1703–1705)Google Scholar. The overlap between Rastrick's manuscript and printed accounts are described in the introduction above. For Edmund Calamy (1671–1732), Presbyterian minister and historian, see ODNB.

³ Nothing further is known of this manuscript: see above, p. 13.

⁴ Hall, Joseph (1574–1656), ‘Observations of some specialties of divine providence in the life of Jos. Hall, Bishop of Norwich’, in The Shaking of the Olive-tree (London, 1660), pp. 1–2Google Scholar: ‘What I have done is worthy of nothing, but silence and forgetfulness; but what God hath done for me, is worthy of everlasting and thankfull Memory.’

⁵ These brackets have been inserted in the brown ink of the marginal notes, perhaps after the main body of the text was written.

⁶ and deleted.

⁷ unto deleted.

⁸ Replacing illegible word (possibly understand), above the line.

⁹ John Duckling, MA (died in or before 1672), ordained 1639; vicar of Heckington, Lincs. (1646–); and vicar of Helpringham, Lincs. CCEd; Venn, II, p. 71.

¹⁰ Robert Sharpe, BD (died in or before 1670), was vicar of Heckington from 1635. CCEd. Sketches, Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford (Sleaford, 1825), p. 249Google Scholar, notes that he was rector from 1636 to 1646 and again from 1660 to 1666.

¹¹ Dyke, Daniel, The Mystery of Selfe-deceiving. Or A discourse and discovery of the deceitfullnesse of mans heart (London, 1614, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹² Dent, Arthur, The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven (London, 1601, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹³ S[egar], F[rancis], The Schoole of Vertue (London, 1557, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹⁴ Rastrick's reference is presumably to Cotton, John, Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (London, 1657)Google Scholar and not to the edition printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1656, or to the earlier editions, which were entitled Milk for Babes.

¹⁵ Perkins, William, The Foundation of Christian Religion Gathered into Sixe Principles (London, 1590, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹⁶ Rastrick does not distinguish between the Larger and Shorter versions of the Westminster Catechism, although his reference to the catechisms in the plural might suggest that he used a combined edition, The Confession of Faith . . . Together with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms (London, 1649, and many later editions).

¹⁷ Not to be confused with the noted teacher Thomas Grantham (c.1610–1664). ODNB.

¹⁸ Benjamin King (c.1612–1677), vicar of Oakham, Leics. (1647–1660); resigned; licensed at Oakham (1672). Calamy Revised, p. 308.

¹⁹ Inserted in smaller hand.

²⁰ Calamy, Edmund, A Continuation of the Account (London, 1727), pp. 609–610Google Scholar notes that Mr Christopher Read held out as a nonconformist for a short while but was persuaded to accept a living and died soon after. Perhaps the same Christopher Reade, BA who was vicar of Cloford, Somerset, in 1641 and was perhaps sequestered to the rectory of Bassingham, Lincs. in 1646. Foster, III, p. 1239.

²¹ The elder Peters is William Peters, who was patron of Thomas Secker when instituted rector of Hougham in 1676. Thomas Secker, MA was chaplain to the earl of Shrewsbury; rector of Bloxholm, Lincs. (1672–1676); and rector of Hougham with Marston, Lincs. (1676). He died in October 1676. CCEd; Venn, IV p. 39. Henry Stokes was Master of the Free Grammar School, Grantham (1650–1663); the ushers were Joseph Clarke (until 1662) and Edward Stokes (from 1662). See, Branson, S.J., The History of the King's School, Grantham: 660 years of a grammar school (Gloucester, 1988), p. 140Google Scholar.

²² William Perkins of Grantham (bap. 1629–d. 1693), admitted to Inner Temple (1665). Venn, III, p. 347; Obadiah Howe (1615/16–1683), Church of England clergyman and author. ODNB. Howe succeeded Anthony Tuckney as vicar of Boston, Lincs. in 1660.

²³ Ovid, De tristibus. Individual parts had been printed in English translation since 1572; the first full translation was by Zachary Catlin in 1639.

²⁴ buckle: to gird oneself, apply oneself resolutely to a task. OED.

²⁵ The master of the Free School, Sleaford, Lincs. in 1663 was Peter Stevens. See Sketches . . . of New and Old Sleaford, p. 86.

²⁶ Two of the three sons of Benjamin King. One was Benjamin King, apothecary of New Sleaford, Lincs., who died in 1703. Calamy Revised, p. 308.

²⁷ Jasper Justice, BA was instituted rector of Lessingham, Lincs. in 1660. CCEd. Perhaps the same as Jasper Justice (BA 1642–1643), who probably kept a school at Arksey, near Doncaster. Venn, II, p. 492.

²⁸ Illegible word cancelled.

²⁹ Matthew Woolmer (alias Consell) of Swineshead, Lincs.; matriculated Queen's College, Cambridge (1632); admitted to Lincoln's Inn (1635); called to the bar (1646); bencher (1670). Venn, IV, p. 462.

³⁰ John Walker, MA, curate of Great Hale. CCEd.

³¹ Jeremy Goodknap, MA (died in or before 1681) was instituted rector of Burton Pedwarine, Lincs. in 1663. His patron was Thomas Orby. CCEd; Venn, II, p. 235.

³² Replacing Friday, above the line.

³³ Replacing Saturday, above the line.

³⁴ The first part of this word has been scrubbed out, possibly Mon.

³⁵ Illegible sentence scrubbed out. The cancellation renders the text illegible.

³⁶ e at end of on cancelled.

³⁷ B[agshawe], E.., ‘The life and death of the author’, first published in Mr Boltons Last and Learned Worke (London, 1632)Google Scholar, was reprinted in editions of Bolton, Robert, The Workes of the Reverend, Truly Pious, and Judiciously Learned Robert Bolton (London, 1641)Google Scholar.

³⁸ Quarles, Francis, Emblemes (London, 1635, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

³⁹ Virel, Matthieu, A Learned and Excellent Treatise Containing All the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion (trans. London, 1594, and thirteen further editions until 1635)Google Scholar.

⁴⁰ The Confession of Faith.

⁴¹ knur: a wooden ball used in the north-country game of knur and spell, which resembled trap-ball. OED.

⁴² fire-sticks: the sticks used to start a fire.

⁴³ Thomas Bainbrigg, DD (1636–1703), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1656–1703); later vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge and religious controversialist. ODNB.

⁴⁴ Edward Whiston, MA (died in or before 1678), vicar of Heckington (1666–1670); vicar of Moulton, Lincs. (1670–1678). CCEd; Venn, IV, p. 384; Sketches . . . of New and Old Sleaford, p. 249.

⁴⁵ quartan ague: a (malarial) fever recurring every fourth day (i.e. every seventy-two hours). OED.

⁴⁶ Laurence, Matthew, MA, rector of Silk Willoughby, Lincs. (1627–1647); member of the Ipswich Classis; author of The Use and Practice of Faith (London, 1657). Venn, III, p. 53Google Scholar.

⁴⁷ Richard Brocklesby, MA (1634/5–1714), theologian and nonjuring Church of England clergyman; ordained 1658; rector of Kirkby on Bane, Lincs. from 1661; later rector of Folkingham, Lincs.; deprived 1702; retired to Stamford, Lincs. ODNB; CCEd; Venn, I, p. 223.

⁴⁸ Hall, Joseph, Divers Treatises Written upon Severall Occasions by Joseph Hall (London, 1662)Google Scholar.

⁴⁹ The following three paragraphs, ending to love Thee, are distinguished by being written in a narrower hand.

⁵⁰ Clarke, Samuel, A Generall Martyrologie . . . Whereunto are added, The lives of sundry modern divines (London, 1651, and later editions)Google Scholar.

⁵¹ Richard Baxter (1615–1691). ODNB.

⁵² The following extract, ending at the end of fo. 19v, is written in a much smaller hand.

⁵³ Robert Harris (1580/1–1658). See, D[urham], W[illiam].., The Life and Death of that Judicious Divine, and Accomplish'd Preacher, Robert Harris (London, 1660)Google Scholar.

⁵⁴ The text reverts to its original size from here.

⁵⁵ The letter is written in the smaller hand.

⁵⁶ Smaller hand ends here.

⁵⁷ flitting tertian: a tertian ague or fever occurring at irregular intervals.

⁵⁸ cathartic: a medicine that has the power of purging or evacuating; a purgative. OED.

⁵⁹ Replacing they, above the line.

⁶⁰ ed cancelled.

⁶¹ The letter is written in the smaller hand.

⁶² Baxter, Richard, The Reasons of the Christian Religion (London, 1667), p. 299Google Scholar.

⁶³ Goshen: figuratively, a place of plenty or of light. OED.

⁶⁴ Presumably Richard Brocklesby's sister, since there is no record of his marriage or children in his will.

⁶⁵ For the Church of England clergymen Robert Bolton (1572–1631), John Dod (1550–1645), William Whately (1583–1639), Richard Sibbes (1577?–1635), and John Preston (1587–1628), see ODNB.

⁶⁶ Baxter, Richard, The Saints Everlasting Rest (London, 1649, and many later editions)Google Scholar. The reference does not enable precision as to which edition Rastrick used, but see p. 178, n. 371 below.

⁶⁷ W[illiam]. D[urham]., Life and Death of . . . Robert Harris, p. 111.

⁶⁸ John Ball (1585–1640), Church of England clergyman and religious writer. ODNB. Ball's biography was included in Clarke, Samuel, The Lives of Thirty-two English Divines (London, 1677), pp. 147–155Google Scholar, with Ball's favourite saying on p. 152. Ball, John, A Short Catechisme (London, 1615, and many later editions) was a bestselling work of its kindGoogle Scholar.

⁶⁹ Smaller hand ends here.

⁷⁰ Baxter, Richard, A Call to the Unconverted (London, 1658, and many later editions)Google Scholar; idem, The Crucifying of the World by the Cross of Christ (London, 1658)Google Scholar.

⁷¹ Baxter, Reasons of the Christian Religion.

⁷² René Descartes (1596–1650).

⁷³ Baxter, Richard, Gildas Salvianus; = the reformed pastor (London, 1656)Google Scholar.

⁷⁴ Baxter, Richard, The Cure of Church-Divisions (London, 1670)Google Scholar.

⁷⁵ Edward Whiston.

⁷⁶ Anthony Beridge, MA, vicar of Heckington (1670–1686) (patron: Lady Francesca Cobham); rector of Evedon, Lincs. (1687–1702). CCEd; Venn, I, 139.

⁷⁷ Boys, John, The Workes of John Boys Doctor of Divinitie and Deane of Canterburie (London, 1622)Google Scholar.

⁷⁸ This paragraph, ending Atheisticall world, is written in the smaller hand.

⁷⁹ or little varying in smaller hand.

⁸⁰ These two paragraphs, ending Deuteronomy 18.-10, are written in the smaller hand.

⁸¹ exigence: a pressing state of circumstances, or one demanding immediate action or remedy; an emergency; a difficulty. OED.

⁸² Leigh, Edward, A Treatise of the Divine Promises (London, 1633)Google Scholar.

⁸³ Rogers, John, The Doctrine of Faith (3rd edn, London, 1629)Google Scholar. Rastrick's reference must be to the third, or later, edition, because the first two editions only contain ten sections.

⁸⁴ 1670/1.

⁸⁵ Haveing is written in a slightly larger hand, to separate the following section.

⁸⁶ This paragraph, ending Sinner, is written in the smaller hand.

⁸⁷ This passage (You can spend time . . . th'dorr! &c.) has been written in a distinct hand, perhaps to show that it was to be set in italics.

⁸⁸ cumber(ed): troubled (of mind), distressed. OED.

⁸⁹ This passage (Lord when shall I . . . Holyness Sake &c.) is written in the smaller hand.

⁹⁰ This is not a catchword. It seems that Rastrick turned the page and decided to start at the beginning of the word.

⁹¹ The authorship of the bestselling The Whole Duty of Man (London, 1658, and many later editions) remained a mystery throughout the period. It was probably written by Richard Allestree (1621/2–1681). ODNB.

⁹² These devotions are written in the smaller hand.

⁹³ Rastrick uses these curly brackets. Student is written above Minister, which has not been cancelled. The intention might have been to provide alternatives for a printed edition.

⁹⁴ End of passage in smaller hand.

⁹⁵ This passage is written in the smaller hand.

⁹⁶ End of passage in smaller hand.

⁹⁷ This passage is written in the smaller hand.

⁹⁸ For (perhaps Form) is concealed in the tight binding.

⁹⁹ End of passage in smaller hand.

¹⁰⁰ This passage is written in the smaller hand.

¹⁰¹ Bayly, Lewis, The Practise of Pietie (2nd edn, London, 1612, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹⁰² Arthur Dent (1552/3–1603), Church of England clergyman and religious writer. ODNB.

¹⁰³ End of passage in smaller hand.

¹⁰⁴ Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober has been written in a distinct hand, perhaps to show that it was to be set in italics.

¹⁰⁵ Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest.

¹⁰⁶ This passage is written in the smaller hand.

¹⁰⁷ End of passage in smaller hand.

¹⁰⁸ This passage is written in the smaller hand.

¹⁰⁹ End of passage in smaller hand.

¹¹⁰ Bolton, Robert, Instructions for a Right Comforting Afflicted Consciences (London, 1631)Google Scholar.

¹¹¹ Rastrick cites Perkins, William, The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience as it was reprinted in The Workes of that Famous and Worthy Minister of Christ . . . M. William Perkins. The second volume (London, 1631)Google Scholar.

¹¹² Daniel Dyke (d. 1614), Church of England clergyman. ODNB.

¹¹³ This bracket is placed at the right margin. The likelihood is that Rastrick intended to find a more specific reference for Dyke, or to add more references to his list of divines on this subject at a later date.

¹¹⁴ And is written in a slightly larger hand, to separate the following section.

¹¹⁵ Basil Beridge, MA (d. 1678) became rector of Algarkirk, Lincs. in 1638. His patron was Roger Fielding. CCEd; Venn, I, p. 139.

¹¹⁶ Joseph Henshaw (1603–1679), bishop of Peterborough. ODNB.

¹¹⁷ William Fuller (1608/9–1675), bishop of Lincoln. ODNB. Sir Edmund Turner (1619–1707) of Stoke-Rochford, Lincs., Royalist and Surveyor-general of the Out Ports.

¹¹⁸ John Leigh, MA (died in or before 1682), rector of Silk Willoughby (1661–1682). CCEd; Venn, III, p. 63.

¹¹⁹ The biblical quotation has been written in a distinct hand, perhaps to show that it was to be set in italics.

¹²⁰ Conrad Dieterich (1575–1639), Lutheran theologian.

¹²¹ Although this is an odd charge, the reference is presumably to John Davenant (bap. 1572–d. 1641), bishop of Salisbury, rather than John Davenport (bap. 1597–d. 1670), puritan minister in America. The reference is probably to Davenant's Ad fraternam communionem inter evangelicas ecclesias restaurandam adhortatio (Cambridge, 1640).

¹²² Baxter, Richard, Rich: Baxter's Confesssion [sic] of his Faith (London, 1655)Google Scholar.

¹²³ Probably, Vernon, George, A Letter to a Friend Concerning Some of Dr. Owens Principles and Practices (London, 1670)Google Scholar.

¹²⁴ In fact, Beridge's wife was not a Ferrar but rather a Brooke; it was her sister Anne who married the younger John Ferrar in 1657. I owe this information to Joyce Ransome.

¹²⁵ It seems likely that this was a local phrase, used to describe the tides on the estuaries. Bores are tidal waves of extraordinary height, caused by the meeting of two tides, or by the rushing of the tide up a narrowing estuary. Ores are edges or banks, shores or coasts. OED.

¹²⁶ dere: hurt, injured. OED.

¹²⁷ Replacing, ap. . .gazed, above the line.

¹²⁸ 1671/2.

¹²⁹ John Scargill, MA (died in or before 1672), rector of Wyberton, Lincs. CCEd.

¹³⁰ Anthony Graves, MA (d. 1701) is not otherwise listed as the incumbent of Frampton. He was appointed vicar of North Rauceby, Lincs. in 1673 and was rector of Little Casteton, Rutland (1674–1701). CCEd; Venn, II, p. 249.

¹³¹ Thomas Maulyverer, MA, instituted rector of Wyberton, 1672 (patron: George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton (1631–1714)). CCEd.

¹³² Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), later bishop of Lincoln, became rector of Wyberton in 1618. For the sermon, see Sanderson, Robert, Two Sermons: preached at two several visitations, at Boston, in the diocesse and county of Lincolne (London, 1622)Google Scholar.

¹³³ Probably Mary, wife of William Walcot of Walcot (d. 1689). See, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, p. 1033.

¹³⁴ Frances, daughter of Sir William Bamfield, was the second wife of John Brooke, Lord Cobham (d. 1660). She was buried at Surfleet, Lincs. in 1676. See Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, 14 vols (London, 1910–1959; Stroud, 1998), III, pp. 338–339Google Scholar. Sir Henry Heron of Cressy Hall in Surfleet died in 1695, aged seventy-six.

¹³⁵ Jane Wilson (d. 1684), daughter of Henry Wilson BD (d. 1665), rector of Faldingworth, Lincs. (1630–1665); rector of Benniworth, Lincs.; prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral (1641–1665). CCEd; Venn, IV, p. 428.

¹³⁶ From this point the manuscript is clearer. This appears to be because of a change of pen, or re-cutting the old, resulting in a finer point.

¹³⁷ Sir George Saunderson (1631–1714), 5th Viscount Castleton.

¹³⁸ Thomas Cheyney (d. 1673), vicar of Kirton in Holland, Lincs. (1659–1673). CCEd.

¹³⁹ Perhaps the same Seagrave who married the sister of Rastrick's mother-in-law (Wilson). See p. 184 below.

¹⁴⁰ Michael Godfrey (1624–1689) was the sixth of the eleven sons of Thomas Godfrey (1585–1664) and thus brother of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621–1678). He was a leader of the City Whigs, probably sympathetic to nonconformity, but attended an Anglican church. See Woodhead, J. R., The Rulers of London, 1660–89: a biographical record of the aldermen and common councilmen of the City of London (London, 1965), p. 77Google Scholar; Doolittle, Ian G., The Mercers’ Company, 1579–1959 (London, 1994), p. 84Google Scholar.

¹⁴¹ Henry Norton, as a member of the Mercers’ Company, served as surveyor-accountant of St Paul's School. See Gardiner, R.B. (ed.), The Admission Registers of St Paul's School from 1748 to 1876 (London, 1884), p. 394Google Scholar.

¹⁴² Mercers’ Company, London, Acts of Court, 23 June 1673: ‘Mr John Rastrick being an humble Suitor for the same [the parish of Kirton], who by the appoyntment of the Court of Assistants preached yesterday at St Michaels Church in Cornhill and having received a Certificate from the Towne of Kirton testifying his exemplary life and conversation and the good they have received by his painefull preaching together with their earnest desire to have him settled amongst them The Court thereupon approving of him, Made choyce of him to be Vicar of the said parish, and presently, in the Court Sealed his presentation.’

¹⁴³ John Tillotson (1630–1694), archbishop of Canterbury; Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian. ODNB.

¹⁴⁴ John Hammond DD (d. 1723), chaplain to William Fuller, bishop of Lincoln; canon of Lincoln cathedral (1671–1723); archdeacon of Huntingdon (1673–1701); rector of Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. (1701–1723). Foster.

¹⁴⁵ at that time, inserted in the margin.

¹⁴⁶ re infecta: with the matter unfinished.

¹⁴⁷ Blome, Richard, Britannia (London, 1673)Google Scholar, a volume that Rastrick cites when describing Kirton in An Account of the Nonconformity of John Rastrick M.A., p. 3. This is an edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in Latin in 1586.

¹⁴⁸ John Cotton (1585–1652) was vicar of St Botolph's, Boston from 1612 until he resigned his living and sailed for New England in 1633. Anthony Tuckney (1599–1670) succeeded Cotton and went on to gain national significance in the 1640s as a prominent member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. He resigned Boston in favour of Obadiah Howe in 1660. ODNB.

¹⁴⁹ Cotton, John, A Briefe Exposition with Practicall Observations upon the Whole Book of Ecclesiastes. By that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton . . . Published, by Anthony Tuckney, D.D. (London, 1654)Google Scholar.

¹⁵⁰ Palmer, Herbert, An Endeavour of Making the Principles of Christian Religion . . . Plain and Easie (Cambridge, 1640, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹⁵¹ Doolittle, Thomas (1630/1633?–1707), clergyman and ejected minister. Rastrick is presumably referring to A Treatise Concerning the Lords Supper (London, 1667, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

¹⁵² The catechism in The Book of Common Prayer.

¹⁵³ Again, Rastrick does not specify the larger or shorter catechism.

¹⁵⁴ Baxter, Gildas Salvianus.

¹⁵⁵ The letters of to have been changed to with, followed by my cancelled.

¹⁵⁶ guggle: to make a sound like that made by liquid pouring from a small-necked bottle. OED.

¹⁵⁷ parrhesia: frankness or freedom of speech. OED.

¹⁵⁸ William Scoffin (1654/5–1732) became curate of Brothertoft, Lincs. in 1681 but quit in 1686, sixteen months before Rastrick. He became the Presbyterian minister of a church at Sleaford. ODNB; and Calamy, Edmund, The Nonconformist's Memorial, ed. Palmer, Samuel, 3 vols (2nd edn, London, 1802), II, p. 165Google Scholar.

¹⁵⁹ accordingly cancelled, after house.

¹⁶⁰ Probably John Shaw of Wyberton (d. 1686). For the family, see Lincolnshire Pedigrees, pp. 868–889.

¹⁶¹ Two words cancelled and rendered illegible.

¹⁶² Fuller, Thomas, The Church-History of Britain (London, 1655)Google Scholar.

¹⁶³ John Pew, MA of Giselham, Suffolk. Calamy Revised, p. 388.

¹⁶⁴ promise cancelled.

¹⁶⁵ Replacing leading, above the line.

¹⁶⁶ John Richardson, BA (d. 1687), incumbent of Bottle-Bridge, Hunts. (c. 1650); then rector of St Michael's, Stamford; ejected 1662. Richardson later lived at Kirton in Holland and was buried there. See Calamy, Edmund (ed.), An Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's History of his Life and Times. With an account of many others of those worthy ministers who were ejected, after the Restauration of King Charles the Second (London, 1702), pp. 451–455Google Scholar.

¹⁶⁷ Henry Morland, BD (died in or before 1702), vicar of Boston. CCEd.

¹⁶⁸ Clement Scudamore (d. 1684), schoolmaster of Kirton in Holland Grammar School. CCEd.

¹⁶⁹ Rector inserted in the margin.

¹⁷⁰ Rector of inserted in the margin. The capital R of Rector has been adapted from of.

¹⁷¹ Vicar inserted in the margin.

¹⁷² Several of these men have been mentioned already. The others are: Jonathan Catlin, MA (d. 1708), vicar of Horbling, Lincs. (1661–1708): Venn, I, p. 308. William Cooper, MA (died in or before 1676), rector of Pickworth, Lincs.: CCEd. Martin Johnson, BD (d. 1678), vicar of Spalding; Master of Spalding School: Venn, II, p. 479. William Laughton, MA, rector of Somerby, Lincs.: CCEd. Humphrey Lucas, MA (d. 1682), rector of Newton, Folkingham, Lincs. (1662–1682): CCEd; Venn, III, p. 113. Loth Male, MA (died in or before 1662), rector of Folkingham (1625–1662): CCEd; Venn, III, p. 168. Samuel Male, MA, rector of Bigby, Lincs. and instituted rector of Aunsby, Lincs in 1668: Calamy Revised, p. 334; CCEd. John Naylor, MA, lecturer of Boston: CCEd. Robert Randolph, MA (d. 1671), vicar of Barnetby le Wold, Lincs. and later vicar of Donington, Lincs.: CCEd; Foster, III, p. 1233. Thomas Roe [Rowe], BD (died in or before 1668), vicar of Granchester, Cambs. (1623–1634); rector of Howell, Lincs. (1634–1668): CCEd. Jeremy Vasyn, MA (d. 1679), usher of Boston School (1628–1633); rector of Skirbeck, Lincs. (until 1679): CCEd; Venn, IV, p. 294. Samuel Whiting, MA (died in or before 1692), vicar of Sutterton, Lincs.: CCEd; Venn, IV, p. 395.

¹⁷³ Probably Maurice Johnson (1661–1747), who was admitted to Clement's Inn in 1684 and Inner Temple in 1700. Johnson was a barrister in Spalding and the father of Maurice Johnson (1688–1755), barrister of Inner Temple and founder of the Spalding Gentleman's Society in 1710. ODNB.

¹⁷⁴ the licita and honesta: the oath of canonical obedience to the bishop was not absolute but ‘in omnibus licitis et honestis mandatis’ (in all lawful and honest commands).

¹⁷⁵ Illegible word cancelled.

¹⁷⁶ Baxter, Richard, The Nonconformists Plea for Peace (London, 1679)Google Scholar.

¹⁷⁷ soon after inserted in the margin.

¹⁷⁸ For Baxter's works in these years, see A.G. Matthews, The Works of Richard Baxter: an annotated list (Oxted, 1932).

¹⁷⁹ Baxter, Richard, A Treatise of Episcopacy (London, 1681)Google Scholar.

¹⁸⁰ Maurice, Henry, A Vindication of the Primitive Church, and Diocesan Episcopacy (London, 1682)Google Scholar.

¹⁸¹ Baxter, Gildas Salvianus.

¹⁸² in part cancelled.

¹⁸³ Colonel Edward King (d. 1680) of Ashby-de-la-Launde, Lincs. had been a key figure in Lincolnshire politics in the 1640s and had been appointed by the earl of Manchester as governor of Holland and Boston. See Garner, A.A., Colonel Edward King (Grimsby, 1970)Google Scholar.

¹⁸⁴ Presumably the same Walter Lapp who in 1681–1682, as a member of the Mercers’ Company, served as surveyor-accountant of St Paul's School. He was preceded by Oliver Wallis (see below, n. 187) and succeeded by Michael Godfrey. The surveyor-accountants of St Paul's School were drawn by Statute from the Mercers’ Company. See Gardiner, Admission Registers of St Paul's School, p. 394.

¹⁸⁵ Replacing Gift, above the line.

¹⁸⁶ Lady Elizabeth Camden, the widow of Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Camden (d. 1629). By her will of 1642, Lady Camden bequeathed £3,100 to the Mercers’ Company to maintain two livings in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, or the Bishopric of Durham. The legacy was received in 1651 and livings bought at Wakefield and Grantham. See Huelin, Gordon, Think and Thank God: the Mercers’ Company and its contribution to the Church and religious life since the Reformation (Leeds, [1994]), p. 57Google Scholar; ODNB.

¹⁸⁷ Oliver Wallis (d. 1699) was surveyor-accountant of St Paul's School, 1680–1681. Gardiner, Admission Registers of St Paul's School, p. 394; Woodhead, Rulers of London, p. 170.

¹⁸⁸ John Arthur, curate of St Christopher-le-Stocks, London, won the election, beating Rastrick and a third candidate, John Oswald, curate of St Vedast, Foster Lane, London. Arthur and Oswald presented their petitions in person, while Rastrick's was read in his absence, ‘his abilitys [being] well knowne to the Company’. The election was made first by show of hands and then by poll. See Mercers’ Company, London, Acts of Court, 13 February 1681/2.

¹⁸⁹ Joseph Farrow, MA (d. 1692), licensed as curate of Boston (1680); chaplain to Sir William Ellis of Nocton, Lincs. (1683–1692). Venn, II, p. 124; CCEd. Sir William Ellis (1641×7–1732), was a Jacobite politician but also a committed Protestant. ODNB.

¹⁹⁰ Bugden: Buckden, Huntingdonshire. Although he took some time to leave Oxford, Buckden Palace became the favoured residence of Bishop Barlow of Lincoln.

¹⁹¹ bait: (of travellers) to stop at an inn, originally to feed the horses, but also to rest and refresh themselves. OED.

¹⁹² For the story of Gideon's Fleece, see Judges 6:36–40.

¹⁹³ Sir Thomas Orby (d. 1692), gentleman usher to Henrietta Maria while in exile in Paris; created baronet by Charles II in exile in 1658.

¹⁹⁴ Madam Savile (m. William Savile) was of the Lincolnshire cadet branch of the Savile family.

¹⁹⁵ William Howell (1631/2–1683), historian and civil lawyer; chancellor of Lincoln cathedral (1678–1683): ODNB. John Cawley, DD (d. 1709), son of William Cawley, regicide, archdeacon of Lincoln (1667–1709); deprived 1687 and restored: CCED. Thomas Barlow (1608/9–1691), bishop of Lincoln: ODNB.

¹⁹⁶ Howell, William, An Institution of General History, 4 pts in 3 vols (London, 1661–1685)Google Scholar.

¹⁹⁷ Illegible word cancelled.

¹⁹⁸ Sir John Oldfield (d. c.1706). Francis Tallents (1619–1708), clergyman and ejected minister: ODNB. Philip Tallents, MA, minister of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, Northants. (1654–1662); ejected and subsequently conformed as vicar of Moulton (1678–1705): CCEd; Venn, IV, p. 198.

¹⁹⁹ Illegible word cancelled in margin.

²⁰⁰ then has been written above now, which has not been cancelled.

²⁰¹ Thomas White (1628–1698), bishop of Peterborough and nonjuror: ODNB. Sir Thomas Exton (bap. 1631–d. 1688), lawyer and politician: ODNB.

²⁰² Illegible word cancelled.

²⁰³ Foxe, John, Acts and Monuments, 3 vols (London, 1632)Google Scholar. Rastrick's page references identify this as the 1632 edition.

²⁰⁴ Rastrick's account casts new light on Scoffin's resignation. Cf. Edmund Calamy, The Nonconformist's Memorial, II, p. 165.

²⁰⁵ Rastrick indicated that this was a passage of quotation by writing ‘cc’ all down the left margin, rather than by using a smaller hand.

²⁰⁶ punctilio: a small or trifling point; a nicety of behaviour, ceremony, or honour; a scruple. OED.

²⁰⁷ Sir Mathew Hale (1609–1676), judge and writer. ODNB. Several Tracts Written by Sr Matthew Hale (London, 1684) includes his ‘A letter from Sir Matthew Hale . . . to his children’.

²⁰⁸ Illegible word cancelled.

²⁰⁹ Lex currit cum praxi: the law follows common practice. Lex non curat minima (usually rendered de minimis non curat lex): the law does not concern itself with trifles.

²¹⁰ End of ‘cc’ in left margin, indicating end of passage of quotation.

²¹¹ Thomas Cartwright (1534/5–1603), theologian and religious controversialist. Public prayer was an important issue in his dispute with John Whitgift. ODNB.

²¹² rochet: a vestment of linen, like a surplice, worn by bishops. OED.

²¹³ Dodwell, Henry, Two Letters of Advice: I. for the susception of Holy Orders. II. for studies theological (Dublin, 1672; 2nd edn, London, 1680)Google Scholar.

²¹⁴ From this point, Rastrick uses his smallest hand, perhaps as a result of using a finer pen.

²¹⁵ demur: hesitation; pause; state of irresolution or doubt. OED.

²¹⁶ Johannes Sleidan (1506–1556); Sleidan, John, The General History of the Reformation (London, 1689)Google Scholar.

²¹⁷ Burnet, Gilbert, The Abridgment of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England (London, 1682)Google Scholar; Hall, Joseph, Episcopacie by Divine Right (London, 1640)Google Scholar.

²¹⁸ Baxter, Gildas Salvianus, sig. A3r (‘when the sin is publike, the Confession must be publike’); Hildersham, Arthur, CLII Lectures upon Psalme LI at Ashby-Delazouch in Leicestershire (London, 1635)Google Scholar.

²¹⁹ Baxter, The Nonconformists Plea for Peace.

²²⁰ Richard Capel (1586–1656) resigned the rectory of Eastington, Gloucs. on 27 November 1634, being unwilling to read the reissued Book of Sports. See Clarke, Samuel, A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines (London, 1662), p. 263Google Scholar; ODNB.

²²¹ Replacing I went, above the line.

²²² Ishmael Burroughs, BA (1657/58–1734), schoolmaster of Folkingham (1680); curate of Frampton, Lincs. It is not clear when Burroughs left his living, although he was certainly the Presbyterian minister of Wisbech, Cambs. by 1694. He moved to London in 1724 and died in 1734. CCEd; Venn, I, p. 263.

²²³ Replacing only of, above the line.

²²⁴ William Bedell (bap. 1572–d. 1642). ODNB; Burnet, Gilbert, The Life of William Bedell, D.D., Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland (London, 1685)Google Scholar.

²²⁵ William Pell (bap. 1634–d. 1698), clergyman and ejected minister. ODNB.

²²⁶ Baxter, Richard, An Apology for the Nonconformists Ministry (London, 1681)Google Scholar; Stillingfleet, Edward, The Mischief of Separation (London, 1680)Google Scholar.

²²⁷ Daniel Reeve (died in or before 1689), vicar of Kirton in Holland. CCEd.

²²⁸ Anthony Tuckney, DD (1599–1670), whose father (William) was vicar of Kirton in Holland. ODNB.

²²⁹ John Pue, MA (d. 1652), vicar of Kirton in Holland (1611–1652). Venn, III, pp. 404–405.

²³⁰ Title set apart and indented.

²³¹ Thomas Barlow gained the bishopric of Lincoln in 1675 but had still not visited either Lincoln or Buckden by July 1678, ODNB.

²³² Presumably the Mr Knibb who had a living at North Aston, Oxon., six miles from Aynho, Northants. CCEd.

²³³ Richard White, BD, vicar of Banbury, Oxon.; instituted vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs. (1677). CCEd; Foster, IV, p. 1616.

²³⁴ For the biography of John Dod, see Clarke, Samuel, A Generall Martyrologie (London, 1651), pp. 404–416Google Scholar; for that of Robert Harris, see W[illiam]. D[urham]., Life and Death of . . . Robert Harris.

²³⁵ Henry More (1614–1687), philosopher, poet, and theologian. ODNB.

²³⁶ Quod cogitamus loquimur was probably lifted from the preface of Baxter, Reasons of the Christian Religion, dedicatory epistle, where Baxter translated it as ‘That which is most and deepest in our thoughts, is aptest to break forth to others.’

²³⁷ Stourbridge Fair, Cambridge lasted from the end of August until the end of September. Its charter of 1589 stated that it ‘far surpassed the greatest and most celebrated fairs of all England’.

²³⁸ Presumably Lionel Walden (1620–1698), MP for Huntington (1661), and for Huntingdonshire (1685); and not his son Lionel Walden (c.1653–1701), MP for Huntingdon (1679, 1681, 1685). See Henning, B.D., The House of Commons 1660–1690, 3 vols (London, 1983), III, pp. 649–651Google Scholar. Walden House still stands on George Street in Huntingdon.

²³⁹ Sir Nicholas Pedley (d. 1685) of Huntingdon. Pedley's daughter, Elizabeth, married Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699), bishop of Worcester. ODNB.

²⁴⁰ Howell, An Institution of General History.

²⁴¹ Cave, William, Primitive Christianity: or, the religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel (London, 1673)Google Scholar.

²⁴² Illegible word cancelled.

²⁴³ The Steward of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1673 to 1680 was one Mr Keat(e); the three bursars in 1679 were Dr Edward Yerbury, Mr John Younger, and Mr Annesley. For further information on Yerbury and Younger, see Bloxam, J.R. (ed.), Magdalen College and James II, 1686–1688: a series of documents (Oxford, 1886)Google Scholar.

²⁴⁴ Richard Cumberland (1632–1718), bishop of Peterborough (1691–1718). ODNB.

²⁴⁵ Sir Thomas Middlecott established the Free (Grammar) School at Kirton in Holland in 1624.

²⁴⁶ Perhaps Robert Riley of Welbourn, Lincs. (d. 1703). For the Rileys of Welbourn, see Lincolnshire Pedigrees, p. 823.

²⁴⁷ Edward Gace, BA, appointed schoolmaster of Kirton in Holland, January 1685. CCEd; Venn, II, p. 187.

²⁴⁸ Samuel Fuller (bap. 1635–d. 1700), chancellor of Lincoln cathedral (1670–1677); dean of Lincoln cathedral (1695–1700).

²⁴⁹ William Russell (1639–1683) was executed in 1683 after the exposure of the Rye House Plot.

²⁵⁰ London Gazette, issue 2047 (29 June 1685), p. 2.

²⁵¹ Israel Jackson, MA, Lecturer of Boston (1685–1707). CCEd; Venn, II, p. 455.

²⁵² wapentake: a subdivision of certain English shires, corresponding to the ‘hundred’ of other counties. OED.

²⁵³ Sir Richard Holloway (bap. 1629–d. 1699), judge. Holloway was Steward of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1681. He was close to Judge Jeffreys and was one of the judges before whom Algernon Sidney was tried. His links with Magdalen were evidently loose, since he appears to have advised James II to proceed in his (unsuccessful) attempt to install Anthony Farmer as the President of Magdalen in 1687. ODNB.

²⁵⁴ Humphrey Rasor married Dorothy Richardson (b. 1655, daughter of John Richardson, rector of St Michael's, Stamford) on 16 October 1681 at her father's church.

²⁵⁵ 1684/5.

²⁵⁶ 1684/5.

²⁵⁷ Thomas Grantham (1633/4–1692), general Baptist minister. ODNB.

²⁵⁸ Liturgy cancelled.

²⁵⁹ Baxter, Richard, A Petition for Peace: with the reformation of the liturgy (London, 1661)Google Scholar.

²⁶⁰ Illegible word cancelled.

²⁶¹ of Old Testament inserted in the margin.

²⁶² expound cancelled.

²⁶³ William Pendleton became minister of Spalding in 1679. See Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 9 vols (London, 1812–1815), VI, pt. 1, p. 57Google Scholar.

²⁶⁴ William Coldwell, MA (d. 1702), vicar of Wisbech (1651–1702); prebend of Ely cathedral (1699–1702). Venn, I, p. 366.

²⁶⁵ Rastrick's memory appears to have been in error. The reference is to Alleine, Joseph, An Alarme to Unconverted Sinners (London, 1672)Google Scholar, which was indeed reprinted as A Sure Guide to Heaven (London, 1688). The minister of Spalding was Martin Johnson, BD (d. 1678). Venn, II p. 479.

²⁶⁶ Replacing the Meeting was, above the line.

²⁶⁷ the same afternoon cancelled.

²⁶⁸ William Pell.

²⁶⁹ Strype, John, The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker (London, 1711), p. 369rGoogle Scholar.

²⁷⁰ This was probably Isaac Modwitt (Maudit) (d. 1718), who succeeded Edward Browne (d. 1682) as nonconformist minister at Stamford. He left Stamford in 1691. See Gordon, Alexander (ed.), Freedom After Ejection: a review (1690–1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational nonconformity in England and Wales (Manchester, 1917), p. 313Google Scholar.

²⁷¹ Replacing the House, above the line.

²⁷² There were chalybeate (iron-bearing) springs at King's Cliffe, Northants. and at Walcot, Lincs. That at King's Cliffe, lying a mile to the south of the village, was called the Spa. Its medicinal properties, including its value for treating ulcers and distempers ‘arising from obstructions’, had been discovered in 1670 by John Boughton. It was evidently still a popular destination in 1703, when it was visited by John Morton, and there is a thorough description of the properties of the waters in his The Natural History of Northamptonshire (London, 1712), pp. 274–277. For the spring at Walcot, see Thompson, Ian, Lincolnshire Springs and Wells: a descriptive catalogue (Scunthorpe, 1999), p. 38Google Scholar.

²⁷³ Matthew Sylvester (1636/7–1708), ejected minister. ODNB.

²⁷⁴ John White (1634–1713) of Tuxford, Notts., MP for Nottinghamshire (1679–1681, 1689–1690, 1691–1698); Richard Taylor (c.1649–1699) of Wallingwells, Notts., MP for East Retford, Notts. (1690–1698). White was a friend of Oliver Heywood and the patron of Matthew Sylvester. Taylor employed Elizar Heywood, son of Oliver Heywood, as chaplain at Wallingwells for more than twenty years. See Cruickshanks, Eveline, Handley, Stuart, and Hayton, D.W. (eds), The House of Commons, 1690–1715, 5 vols (Cambridge, 2002), V, pp. 611–612, 849Google Scholar.

²⁷⁵ Timothy Jollie (1656×9–1714), Independent minister and nonconformist tutor. ODNB. Edward Prime (c.1631–1708) was an assistant to James Fisher, vicar of Sheffield, from 1655, and ejected in 1662. He kept up the fortnightly lecture there for forty-five years from 1662. See Fern, Robert, The Perfection of the Spirits . . . In a Sermon upon the Death of the Reverend Mr Edward Prime (London, 1710), pp. 33–35Google Scholar; Venn, III, p. 399.

²⁷⁶ Wallingwells, home to the Whites of Tuxford.

²⁷⁷ Thomas White of Carburton, heir to John White of Tuxford (see p. 137, n. 274 above). Through Thomas White's marriage in 1698 to Bridget Taylor of Wallingwells, who was the sole heir of Richard Taylor (see p. 137, n. 274 above), Wallingwells passed to the White family. For the marriage (where White is rendered Whity), see Turner, J.H. (ed.), The Nonconformist Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1644–1702, 1702–1752, Generally Known as the Northowram or Coley Register; compiled by . . . Oliver Heywood and T. Dickenson (Brighouse, 1881), p. 51Google Scholar.

²⁷⁸ Richard Taylor.

²⁷⁹ Probably the Hatfield family of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, near Rotherham, whom Oliver Heywood recorded visiting in 1666 and which included the prophet Martha Hatfield (b. 1640). ODNB.

²⁸⁰ Probably Thomas Westby of Ravenfield, Yorks. (b. after 1665–d. 1747), who was educated in part by Oliver Heywood and was MP for East Retford (1710–1711). The Westby family had strong links among the puritan gentry. Thomas Westby's father-in-law was John White, for whom see p. 137, n. 274 above.

²⁸¹ Elkanah Rich (c.1659–1729), of Bullhouse, near Penistone, Yorks. Rich married, in turn, the daughters of two ejected ministers: Margaret Shaw (daughter of John Shaw) and Martha Thorpe (daughter of Richard Thorpe). He built a Presbyterian chapel at Bullhouse in 1692.

²⁸² Lady Mary Rodes (1608–1681), widow of Sir Edward Rodes (1601–1666), of Great Houghton, near Barnsley.

²⁸³ Mr Cotton is most likely to be William Cotton (1648/9–1703), from the family of ironmasters, who had close connections to Oliver Heywood and the nonconformist community. ODNB.

²⁸⁴ For Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725); Abraham Sharp (bap. 1653–d. 1742) of Horton Hall, Little Horton, near Bradford; and Oliver Heywood (bap. 1630–d. 1702), see ODNB. Rastrick is a village approximately five miles south-east of Halifax.

²⁸⁵ Stanage Edge, Derbys.

²⁸⁶ River Derwent.

²⁸⁷ Rastrick uses these curly brackets. never is written above scarce, which has not been cancelled. As in p. 72, n. 93 above, the intention might have been to provide alternatives for a printed edition.

²⁸⁸ Burnet, Thomas, The Theory of the Earth (Latin edn, London, 1681/1689; English edn, London, 1684/1690)Google Scholar.

²⁸⁹ Robert Hooke (1635–1703) had expounded his views on this matter from 1668, but Rastrick is probably referring to The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke (London, 1705), p. 291.

²⁹⁰ Eldon Hole, a deep pothole in the Peak Forest between Castleton and Chapel-en-le-Frith.

²⁹¹ Woodhead, to the east of Manchester, now lost to the Woodhead Reservoir.

²⁹² Christopher Adam, MA (d. 1706), vicar of Rawmarsh, Yorks. (1667–1700); vicar of Rotherham (1697–1701). Venn, I, p. 4.

²⁹³ Jollie started an academy at Attercliffe Hall, Yorks. in 1691.

²⁹⁴ Anthony Williamson (d. 1704) was the first minister at the nonconformist meeting at Spinner Lane, King's Lynn. Gordon, Freedom after Ejection, p. 385, suggests that he was active there from 1690 to 1701.

²⁹⁵ Perhaps William Blyth, who was appointed an alderman of King's Lynn in 1688. See Hillen, Henry J., History of the Borough of King's Lynn, 2 vols (Norwich, 1907), I, p. 444Google Scholar.

²⁹⁶ Replacing took, which has not been cancelled, above the line.

²⁹⁷ Blank space in the text, presumably to insert a number.

²⁹⁸ John Sharp (1645?–1714), archbishop of York (1691–1714). ODNB.

²⁹⁹ [Barton, William], The Book of Psalms in Metre (London, 1644, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

³⁰⁰ Seal Peast (d. 1713) was the son of Charles Peast (d. 1707) and father of Charles Peast (d. 1723). See TNA, PRO, PROB 11/495 (Will of Charles Peast, Gentleman of King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1707) and PROB 11/593 (Will of Charles Peast, Gentleman of King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1723). He was a brewer and became a freeman of King's Lynn in 1682–1683: see A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn, 1292–1836 (Norwich, 1913). The Peast family had strong links with nonconformity in King's Lynn. It was at the house of the elder Charles Peast and John Kingstead in Black Goose Street that John Horne and Charles Philips were licensed to preach in 1673. The meeting later moved to the disused round glasshouse in Spinner Lane. See Hillen, History of the Borough of King's Lynn, I, p. 416.

³⁰¹ A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches. By N. Tate and N. Brady (London, 1696, and many later editions). It is not clear to which edition Rastrick is referring, but see p. 162, n. 328 below.

³⁰² Replacing they were, above the line.

³⁰³ nosed: to be led about by the nose. OED.

³⁰⁴ Thomas Littel DD (d. 1731), vicar of St Margaret's, King's Lynn (1702); rector of Tydd St Mary, Lincs. (1704). See Richards, William, The History of Lynn, 2 vols (Lynn, 1812), II, pp. 1007–1012Google Scholar; Venn, III, p. 91. Samuel Taylor stood against Robert Walpole in 1711. Walpole won the election, despite being imprisoned, and the election was subsequently declared void.

³⁰⁵ John Rastrick, An Account of the Nonconformity of John Rastrick, M.A. For details of its two published versions see above, pp. 14–15.

³⁰⁶ broil: a confused disturbance, tumult, or turmoil; a quarrel. OED.

³⁰⁷ tergiversation: the act of ‘turning one's back on’; desertion or abandonment of a cause or party. OED.

³⁰⁸ Blank space in the text, to insert a number.

³⁰⁹ Ishmael Burroughs had left the Church of England to become the Presbyterian minister of Wisbech by 1694. See p. 117, n. 222 above.

³¹⁰ See The Judgement of the Synode Holden at Dort, Concerning the Five Articles (London, 1619), p. 19.

³¹¹ Moïse Amyraut (1596–1664), Jean Daillé (1594–1670), and Josué de la Place (Placeus) (c.1596–1655 or 1665) were of the Saumur school of Huguenots; James Ussher (1581–1656), Archbishop of Armagh: ODNB; John Preston (1587–1628), Church of England clergyman: ODNB. In citing these authors together, Rastrick was, like Baxter, using the authority of the Synod of Dort and the divines of the early seventeenth century to affirm the orthodoxy (against the charge of Arminianism) of the doctrine of hypothetical universalism. It is surprising that Rastrick omits reference to Baxter, Richard's Universal Redemption of Mankind (London, 1694)Google Scholar.

³¹² hinc illae lachrymae: hence those tears. This Latin proverb, derived from Terence, Cicero, and Horace, was also the title of a work of 1692, Hinc illæ lachrymæ: or, England's miseries set forth in their true light (London, 1692).

³¹³ Perhaps the John Money, writing-master, who became a freeman of King's Lynn in 1712–1713. See A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn, p. 220. John Money was a witness to Rastrick's will. See below p. 206.

³¹⁴ they cancelled.

³¹⁵ Michael Harrison (d. 1727) had been the conforming vicar of Caversfield, Oxon., but removed to a Dissenting meeting at Potterspury, Northants., probably in 1692. In 1709, he removed once more, to St Ives, Hunts. See Gordon, Freedom after Ejection, p. 280.

³¹⁶ Jean Daillé.

³¹⁷ John Spademan, MA (d. 1708) was the son of Thomas Spademan, the ejected minister of Authorpe, Lincs. Like Rastrick, John Spademan was an after-dissenter who left his Church of England living (he was vicar of Swaton, Lincs. and rector of Llandynam, Montgomery) to become pastor of the English Church at Rotterdam (1681–1698), before moving to London in 1698 to become John Howe's assistant at the Presbyterian congregation that met at Haberdashers’ Hall on Staining Lane in Cheapside. For a long account of his life, and a written covenant, see Rosewell, Samuel, A Sermon Preach'd . . . upon Occasion of the Death of the Reverend John Spademan (London, 1708)Google Scholar.

³¹⁸ Baxter, Richard, The True and Only Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches: the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms (London, 1680), pt. 3, p. 127Google Scholar.

³¹⁹ pettish: subject to fits of offended ill humour; childishly bad-tempered and petulant; peevish, sulky. OED.

³²⁰ John Bagge, merchant and brewer, was made a freeman of King's Lynn in 1694–1695. He was subsequently an alderman and twice mayor (1711–1712; 1731–1732). See A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn.

³²¹ See p. 35, marginal note and n. 21 above.

³²² This treatise appears not to have survived.

³²³ that cancelled.

³²⁴ John Killingback, BD (1649–1716), lecturer of St Nicholas's Chapel, King's Lynn (1682–1690); vicar of Leeds, Yorks. (1690–1716).

³²⁵ Daniel Williams (c.1643–1716), Presbyterian minister and benefactor. ODNB.

³²⁶ re infecta: with the matter unfinished.

³²⁷ For Nathaniel Kinderley (1673–1742), see p. 169, n. 344 below.

³²⁸ A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches. By N. Tate and N. Brady (London, 1698), p. 49.

³²⁹ A village three miles south of King's Lynn.

³³⁰ re infecta: with the matter unfinished.

³³¹ Joseph Hussey (1660–1726) was the minister of Emmanuel Congregational Church, Cambridge. For a brief sketch of his life and extracts from his diary, see Matthews, A.G., Diary of a Cambridge Minister (Cambridge, 1937)Google Scholar.

³³² This was presumably the Independent minister Thomas Goodwin (c.1650–1708?), who kept an Academy at Pinner, Middx., rather than the nonconformist minister Thomas Goodwin (1600–1680). ODNB.

³³³ Stephen Tayler was appointed common councilman of King's Lynn in 1688 (alongside Seal Peast). See Hillen, History of the Borough of King's Lynn, I, p. 444. He was also a witness to the will of the elder Charles Peast (d. 1707). TNA, PRO, PROB 11/495 (Will of Charles Peast, Gentleman of King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1707).

³³⁴ Illegible word cancelled.

³³⁵ Probably Guybon Goddard (1612–1671), recorder of King's Lynn from 1650, and antiquarian. See ODNB; Richards, The History of Lynn, II, pp. 1003–1004.

³³⁶ Possibly Peter Bread, cooper, who became a freeman of King's Lynn in 1718–1719. See A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn, p. 224.

³³⁷ This exclamation and the following one are underlined in the text, presumably for emphasis.

³³⁸ Charles Peast was the son of Seal Peast. He became a freeman of King's Lynn in 1709–1710. See A Calendar of the Freemen of Lynn, p. 218; Will, 1723: TNA, PRO, PROB 11/593.

³³⁹ but cancelled.

³⁴⁰ then cancelled.

³⁴¹ Edmund Rolfe (1649–1726), town clerk of King's Lynn for thirty-five years; later an alderman and twice mayor (1713–1714; 1720–1721). See R.T. and Gunther, A., Rolfe Family Records: volume II (London and Aylesbury, 1914), pp. 50–62Google Scholar; Gunther, A.E., Rolfe Family Records: volumes I and III (Heacham, Norfolk, 1962), pp. 4–5Google Scholar.

³⁴² Illegible word cancelled.

³⁴³ Bartholomew Loftus (1679–1751) was educated at Jollie's Academy at Attercliffe Hall. After posts in Colchester and Amsterdam, he was the minister of the English Presbyterian Church at Rotterdam (first in concert with Joseph Hill (1667–1729)) between 1707 and 1751. See Snowden, Benjamin, The Mourner's Consolation: a funeral sermon preached at the English church in Rotterdam, Octob. 24. 1751. on occasion of the lamented death of the late Reverend Bartholomew Loftus (The Hague, 1751)Google Scholar.

³⁴⁴ Nathaniel Kinderley (1673–1742) was born in Spalding, and was a civil engineer who became a key figure in fen drainage projects of the eighteenth century. He was the author of The Present State of the Navigation of the Towns of Lyn, Wisbeach, Spalding, and Boston (Bury St Edmunds, 1721), which is mistakenly attributed by the ESTC to Charles Kinderley. Nathaniel is frequently mistaken for his son, also Nathaniel, who published an extended version of his father's tract in 1751. See Chrimes, Mike et al. (eds), Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: volume 1 – 1500 to 1830 (London, 2002), pp. 286–288Google Scholar. Rastrick's account provides the earliest evidence of Kinderley's whereabouts, his work, and (presumably) his religious sympathies. Rastrick's will and his correspondence with Mr William Steevens, corn factor in Queenhithe, London (Dr Williams's Library, MS 24.115 fo. 46) suggest that Kinderley lived in King's Lynn until 1725, when he moved to Setchey Bridge, about four miles south of King's Lynn.

³⁴⁵ On this see More, Henry, The Immortality of the Soul (London, 1659)Google Scholar; Descartes, René, Principia philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

³⁴⁶ Boyle, Robert, A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and their Effects (Oxford, 1669)Google Scholar.

³⁴⁷ More, The Immortality of the Soul, pp. 543–544.

³⁴⁸ in particular inserted in the margin.

³⁴⁹ For Robert Boyle (1627–1691), Robert Hooke (1635–1703), and John Ray (1627–1705), see ODNB.

³⁵⁰ dioptrics: that part of the science of optics which treats of the refraction of light. OED.

³⁵¹ Bray, Thomas, Bibliotheca Parochialis: or, a scheme of such theological heads both general and particular, as are more peculiarly requisite to be well studied by every pastor of a parish (London, 1697)Google Scholar.

³⁵² Illegible word cancelled.

³⁵³ ply: a bias, inclination, or tendency of mind or character. OED.

³⁵⁴ William Pendleton, who succeeded Martin Johnson at Spalding (see above, p. 98, n. 172). Playford, John, Psalms & Hymns in Solemn Musick of Foure Parts (London, 1671)Google Scholar.

³⁵⁵ Playford, John, An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London, 1655, and later editions)Google Scholar.

³⁵⁶ Simpson, Christopher, The Principles of Practical Musick (London, 1665)Google Scholar.

³⁵⁷ Rastrick's musical ingenuity around this time was recalled in the preface to his old friend Scoffin, William's An Help To the Singing Psalm-Tunes, By The Book. In a method more easy than is generally taught. With directions for making an instrument with one string, by which any tune may be easily learn'd (London, 1725), p. ivGoogle Scholar:

This book is not listed in ESTC and is erroneously attributed to William Sherwin in the British Library catalogue. For Scoffin's authorship, see Calamy, The Nonconformist's Memorial, II, p. 439.

³⁵⁸ Grotius, Hugo, De veritate religionis christianae (Paris, 1627)Google Scholar.

³⁵⁹ Preston, John, Life Eternall or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes (London, 1631)Google Scholar; Charnock, Stephen, Several Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God (London, 1682)Google Scholar.

³⁶⁰ Bulkeley, Peter, The Gospel-Covenant; or the covenant of grace opened (London, 1646)Google Scholar.

³⁶¹ Gibbon, Perhaps Nicholas (1605–1697), Theology Real, and Truly Scientifical in Overture for the Conciliation of All Christians (London, ?1687)Google Scholar.

³⁶² Truman, Joseph, The Great Propriation: or, Christs satisfaction (London, 1669)Google Scholar.

³⁶³ Cudworth, Ralph, A Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lords Supper (London, 1642)Google Scholar; Mede, Joseph, The Works of that Reverend, Judicious, and Learned Divine, Mr Joseph Mede (London, 1648)Google Scholar; perhaps Simon Patrick's Aqua genitalis (London, 1659) or his Mensa mystica (London, 1660); Virel, A Learned and Excellent Treatise Containing All the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion.

³⁶⁴ Dyke, The Mystery of Selfe-deceiving.

³⁶⁵ Novi Testamenti Jesu Christi Græci, hoc est, originalis linguæ, Ταμειον, aliis Concordantiæ . . . Erasmi Schmidii (Wittenberg, 1638); Estienne, Henri, Θησαυρος της Ελληνικης γλωσσης: thesaurus Græcæ linguæ, 5 vols ([Geneva], 1572)Google Scholar.

³⁶⁶ Poole, Matthew, Annotations upon the Holy Bible (London, 1685)Google Scholar.

³⁶⁷ Illegible word, perhaps had, cancelled.

³⁶⁸ Wilkins, John, Ecclesiastes, or, a discourse concerning the gift of preaching as it fals under the rules of art (London, 1646, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

³⁶⁹ Bernard, Richard, The Faithfull Shepheard (London, 1607)Google Scholar.

³⁷⁰ A Directory for the Publike Worship of God, Throughout the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, 1645).

³⁷¹ Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest. Rastrick's reference corresponds to the editions printed in 1658, 1659, 1662, 1669 (×2), and 1676.

³⁷² I read inserted in the margin.

³⁷³ Baxter, Universal Redemption of Mankind.

³⁷⁴ John Richardson and William Pell (see above p. 95, n. 166, and p. 118, n. 225).

³⁷⁵ Stephen Marshall (1594/5?–1655), Church of England clergyman. ODNB. Marshall published many sermons and Rastrick appears to be referring to them as a whole.

³⁷⁶ For John Preston (1587–1628), Arthur Hildersham (1563–1632), and Thomas Manton (bap. 1620–d. 1677), see ODNB. Rastrick's reference is not specific.

³⁷⁷ polyanthea: a collection of quotations or extracts from literature, esp. poetry; a commonplace book; an anthology. OED.

³⁷⁸ Annesley, Samuel, The Life and Funeral Sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand (London, 1692)Google Scholar.

³⁷⁹ The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: with annotations and parallel Scriptures . . . by Samuel Clark (London, 1690).

³⁸⁰ Newman, Samuel, A Large and Complete Concordance to the Bible in English (London, 1643, and many later editions)Google Scholar.

³⁸¹ Wilson, Thomas, Complete Christian Dictionary (London, 1678)Google Scholar.

³⁸² W[illiam]. D[urham]., Life and Death of . . . Robert Harris.

³⁸³ Henry Hammond (1605–1660), Church of England clergyman and theologian. ODNB.

³⁸⁴ synonymas: synonyms. OED.

³⁸⁵ Newman, Samuel, A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures (Cambridge, 1662)Google Scholar, which was originally published as A Large and Complete Concordance to the Bible in English (London, 1643), became known as the Cambridge Concordance, a title that was printed vertically on the page facing the title-page.

³⁸⁶ di Calasio, Mario (1550–1620), Concordantiæ Bibliorum Hebraicorum, 4 vols (Rome, 1621)Google Scholar.

³⁸⁷ Bray, Bibliotheca Parochialis.

³⁸⁸ Ravanellus, Petrus, Bibliotheca Sacra, 2 parts (Geneva, 1660)Google Scholar.

³⁸⁹ Wilson, Complete Christian Dictionary.

³⁹⁰ Theodore Beza (1519–1605).

³⁹¹ Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), co-author of the Heidelberg catechism (1563).

³⁹² Probably William Mellish, gent. of Bullington, Lincs. For Mellish's will (1690), see TNA, PRO, PROB 11/403.

³⁹³ W[illiam]. D[urham]., Life and Death of . . . Robert Harris, p. 111.

³⁹⁴ Sir Richard Cust (bap. 1622–d. 1700), politician. Cust had an estate at Kirton in Holland through his marriage to Beatrice, daughter and heir of William Pury of Kirton, in 1644, but his main residence (after 1654) was the Blackfriars in Stamford. ODNB.

³⁹⁵ Probably John Shaw of Wyberton (d. 1686). For the family, see Lincolnshire Pedigrees, pp. 868–889.

³⁹⁶ Baxter, Richard, The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience (London, 1653, and later editions)Google Scholar; the letter is not listed in Keeble, N.H. and Nuttall, Geoffrey. F. (eds), Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, 2 vols (Oxford, 1991)Google Scholar.

³⁹⁷ brangling: noisy and turbulent disputing; squabbling. OED.

³⁹⁸ Ishmael Burroughs married Mary Richardson (b. 1659), daughter of John and Mary Richardson, at Frampton, on 29 April 1684.

³⁹⁹ For the spring at Walcot, see p. 136, n. 272 above.

⁴⁰⁰ sermon, Baxter's, ‘The cure of melancholy and overmuch-sorrow by faith and physick’, was first published anonymously in Samuel Annesley's compilation, A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience (London, 1683)Google Scholar.

⁴⁰¹ the and an illegible word cancelled.

⁴⁰² Rastrick's hand resembles printed italics in this passage. The three roman numerals are highlighted in bold.

⁴⁰³ Manton, Thomas, One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on the Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm, preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton (London, 1681)Google Scholar; Spurstowe, William, The Wels of Salvation Opened: or, a treatise discovering the nature, preciousnesse, usefulness of Gospel-promises, and rules for the right application of them (London, 1655)Google Scholar.

⁴⁰⁴ End of passage in style of printed italics.

⁴⁰⁵ barnes: a common way of rendering bairns (children), especially in the north of England. OED.

⁴⁰⁶ galled: irritated, vexed, unquiet, distressed; hence galledness: irritation. OED.

⁴⁰⁷ cicatrix: the scar remaining after a wound or sore is healed. OED.

⁴⁰⁸ fridge: to move restlessly; to fidget. OED.

⁴⁰⁹ For the full text of Rastrick's hymn, based on ‘The lamentation of a sinner’, in Playford, Psalms & Hymns, see Lincolnshire Archives, MS 2 Cragg 4/7, fo. 1v (in separate gathering at the end of the manuscript).

⁴¹⁰ John Horne (bap. 1616–d. 1676), clergyman and ejected minister. ODNB.

⁴¹¹ This sentence, which was written after Rastrick's death, has been inserted at the bottom of the page in another hand.

⁴¹² This section is written in two columns, divided by a solid line. Many of the entries have been written in a different hand to John Rastrick's. They are placed in italics. The asterisks appear in Rastrick's text and indicate children who have died.

⁴¹³ Marriage detail in Rastrick's smaller hand beneath.

⁴¹⁴ In his will, William Scoffin (d. 1732) left books to Samuel Rastrick, silk dyer of London and to William Rastrick. Calamy Revised, p. 429.

⁴¹⁵ Friday cancelled (by rubbing).

⁴¹⁶ This is a continuation of the notice about Hannah's death.

⁴¹⁷ Like the flyleaf, the endpaper is glued to the cover. It appears to be a letter addressed to Rastrick. Although the letter is torn, part of the address is visible: ‘To Mr R . . . / his House . . . / Kirkton . . .’.