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| | Stepney: Protestant Nonconformity to 1689 | British History Online |
 | | In 1666 the Secretary of State was informed about six Stepney meeting houses, including those at Spitalfields and Wapping, (Footnote 86) and in 1670, perhaps as a result of the report on conventicles of 1669, the lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, Sir John Robinson, was ordered to keep watch on sectarians. |
 | | In 1683 a headborough of Stepney and the surveyor of the poor of Limehouse neglected to distrain conventiclers' goods, (Footnote 94) and in 1685 another headborough was fined for warning a Quaker about a warrant. |
 | | In 1682, when persecution resumed, Matthew Mead, minister of Stepney Meeting, William (probably the same as Hercules) Collins, of Old Gravel Lane, Wapping-Stepney, and Samuel Annesley, were each convicted several times of teaching at conventicles in their homes and at meeting houses. |
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