LAMB. 461 Epistle to the Bishops and Ministers of the Church of England,' as also in our Apology for the baptized Be- lievers,' as do, we trust, sufficiently evidence that there is nothing more dear to us than truth, and peace with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." He further observes, in the name of himself and his brethren: " We have borne the unkind usage of many of our countrymen, and of persecuting priests in particular, for more than thirty years. For, in the time of Crornwell's usurpation, they did then hale us before the judgement- seats, because we could not worship,; God after the will of their lord protector ; for so they styled him in their articles against us. We had then our goods taken away, and never restored to this day." In the enumeration of their multiplied sufferings, he says, " We have sustained the imprisonment of not less than one hundred persons. We have borne the trial of no less than three hundred levies, of sixty, forty, twenty, or ten pounds. Indictments at the assizes and sessions, for two-pence per week and twenty pounds per month, we have had not less than a thousand.- Presentments and excommunications in the commissary courts we have had some hundreds, with many other vexations not here inserted." Mr. Grantham, who bore his share in these oppressions, greatly encouraged and comforted his brethren under all their sufferings. He seems to have been an eminent person in his day, but it does not appear when he died. In addi- tion to the article already mentioned, he was author of " Christianismus Primitivus ;" also, " Sigh for Peace ; or, the Cause of Division discovered ;" and " The Pwdobaptists Apology for the ,baptized Churches.". He is classed, among the principal advocates for the practice of laying on of hands -upon persons newly baptized ; and he united with his brethren in publishing a treatise in defence of it, entitled, " A Search for Schism. 't THOMAS LAMB was a native of Colchester ; and, during the reign of Charles I., a zealous and popular preacher among the baptisd. At the instigation of Archbishop Laud, he was brought from Colchester to London, and pro- secuted for nonconformity to the established church, and for preaching to a separate congregation. Being brought Crosby's Baptists, vol. tit, p. 75-90. 1 ibid. vol. iv. p. 992.
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