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Note: From NEHG Register, Vol. 170, page 32 Source: John Bellamie, A Justification of the City Remonstrance and Its Vindication (London: Richard Cotes, 1646), 22-23. The records of St. Andrew Hubbard for this time period are no longer extant, making Bellamie’s tract the only surviving witness to Linnell’s first wife and the baptism of their daughter. Bellamie’s accuracy can be confirmed by the other baptism he mentioned in this tract-that of Bershuah, daughter of Daniel Ray-which does match surviving parish records (London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Saviour, Southwark, Registers, included in London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, online at Ancestry.com). Bellamie’s tract also provides the only contemporary witness that Daniel Ray was a member of the congregation eventually led by Lothrop. Ray appeared in the token books of St. Saviour Southwark as early as 1622 and as late as 1627 (William Ingram and Alan H. Nelson, The Token Books of St Saviour Southwark, online at http://tokenbookslma.cityoflondon.gov.uk). An early Plymouth church history attests that, about 1629, “seuerall Godly persons, some whereof had bin of mr Laythorps Church in England,” moved to Plymouth Colony (William Bradford and Nathaniel Morton, “History of the Plymouth Church, 1620-1680,” in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Collections, Vol. 22 [Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1920], 64). It
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