Baptists in Liverpool in the 17th Century

Abstract

"THE origins of the first Baptist witness in Liverpool are tantaliz~ . ingly obscure. We may presume with a fair degree of certainty that from the :time it became a ganison town in 1644 and for a decade. or more later a handful of the many soldiers stationed there would he of this persuasion, but so far none of those whom the Town Books show as having been admitted freemen, nor any of the sixteen godly ministers who appear on the Freemen's lists of 1644 and 165,3 can be positively identified as such. "