(old series: GEMMS-REPORT-424)
Hobart reports to Mingay the following: 'That vpon the 11th day of July last being the Lords day Mr Thomas Tillham of Colchester did preach in the afternoone of the same day at the p[ar]ishe Church of St Giles in the Citty of Norwich[.] his text was Isay 42: v: 21: The Lord is well pleased with his Righteousnes […].’ Tillham had already preached on part of this text in the same morning. In the afternoon, he apparently ‘indeavored to blast ye reputacon of the wholl Clergy & to wthdrawe the peoples good opinion from them by calling of them hirelings, comparing them to those in the Parable Math 20:21 who would not goe to labor in the vinyard vntill they had made their agreement for a penny a day’.
Hannah Yip
Written in an anonymous mixed secretary and italic hand. For this incident, see David S. Katz, Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England (Leiden: Brill, 1988), p. 37. Another dispute of Thomas Tillham is outlined in William Bayly, Deep calleth unto Deep (London, 1663).