ADDENDA. 519 trary to his majesty's instructions, and with holding abenefice near the place, at which, for the space of ten years, he had never constantly resided.. Therefore, about the year 1629, by the particular instigation of Bishop Laud, he was sus- pended for nonconformity ; but Archbishop Abbot presently restored him to his ministry,and inhibited the archdeacon from his jurisdiction; which, says our author, exposed all who acted in it to scorn and contempt+ SAMDEL BLACKLOCKwas preacher to a baptist congre- gation in London. A number of pious persons about the metropolis having espoused the sentiments of the baptists, could not be satisfied that any person in Englandwas suitable to administer the ordinance of baptism ; but hearing that some in the Netherlands baptized by immersion, they agreed to send over one Mr. Richard Blount, who understood the Dutch language, to receive baptism at their hands. He accordingly went, carrying letters of recommendation with him, and was kindly received both by the church there, and by Mr. John Batte their teacher. On his return, he baptized Mr. Blacklock the minister, and these two baptized the rest of the company, to the number of fifty-three. The generality of English baptists, however, accounted all this as needless trouble, and as founded on the old popish doctrine, that an uninterrupted succession is requisite to the proper adminis- tration of' the sacraments.t. MR. BRADSTREET, born of a wealthy family in Suffolk, was one of the first fellovts of Emanuel college, Cambridge, and highly esteemed by persons distinguished for learning. Inthe year 1603 he appears to have been minister at Hobling in Lincolnshire, but was always a nonconformist to the church of England. He was afterwards preacher to the English congregation at Middleburg, where he was most probably driven by the severity of persecution. He was living about the year 1630. The first planters of New Eng land had the highest respect for him, and used to style him, " The venerable Mordecai of his country." He was father to the celebrated Simon Bradstreet, governor of New Eng- land, who died in 1697, aged ninety-four years."4 Prynne's Cant. Doome, p. 373. Reylin's Life of Laud, p. 201. t Crosby's Baptists, vol. i. p. 102, 103. Matber's Hist. of NewEng. b. ii. p. 19.
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