The Wapping Baptists: Murky Origins and the Silence of John Spilsbery

Figures & data

Figure 1. Welsh translation of Norcott’s ‘Baptism Discovered Plainly and Faithfully’ (1694). Note. John Norcott, Bedydd Gwedi i Amlygu yn Eglir ag yn Fyddlon, Yn ol Gair Duw (London: William Marshall, 1694).

Figure 2. ‘Cole Harbour’ (1682). Note. Layers of London, “William Morgan’s Map of the City of London, Westminster and Southwark (1682),” https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/william-morgan-s-map-of-the-city-of-london-westminster-and-southwark-1682 (accessed January 2, 2023).

Figure 3. ‘John Norcott in old Gravell Lane, An Anabaptist … Convicted twice and warrants made, His word is taken for a few dayes to consider of submitting to the Oxford Act & to take the oaths of Allegiance & supre: or goe to newgate’. Note. The National Archives, State Papers Online, Reference Number: SP 29/277 f.3, “1 July 1670.”