THE FOUNDERS OF CHARLES CHURCH. 
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these works appear in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed 
Books. And last of all comes " Vindicce gratice Sacrament alls, 1650, 
8vo, London." 
It is to be remarked that the adjacent churches of St. Martin 
Outwich in Threadneedle Street, and St. Antholines or St. Anthony 
in Watling Street, both shared the same fate. Both have been 
destroyed — the first in 1873, and the second in 1876, and their 
sites secularized and built over. 
The lectures at St. Antholines were of great notoriety in their 
day. "To hear these sermons," says Clarendon, "there was so 
great a conflux and resort of the citizens, out of humour and 
faction ; by others of all qualities, part of curiosity ; by some that 
they might the better justify the contempt they had of them ; that 
from the first appearance of day in the morning of every Sunday 
to the shutting in of the light the church was never empty. They 
(especially the women) who had the happiness to get into the 
church in the morning (they who could not hung upon or about 
the windows without, to be auditors or spectators) keeping the 
places till the afternoon exercises were finished." 1 " S. Antho- 
line's," says Dugdale (from its morning lectures) " was the grand 
nursery whence most of the seditious preachers were after sent 
abroad throughout all England to poyson the people with their 
anti-monarchical principles." 2 
Here is found Bedford lecturing in 1647, and perhaps it was 
these very lectures which procured him his appointment as rector 
of the neighbouring church of St. Martin Outwich • or perhaps it 
was the price which willingly or unwillingly he had to pay to 
justify his appointment in the eyes of the Committee of the House 
of Commons, who were every whit as exacting in their ecclesiastical 
appointments as Queen Elizabeth, when she brought a too in- 
dependent dean to his senses by exclaiming in anger, " I tracked 
you, and I'll unfrock you." 
With respect to controversial theology of a marked Puritanical 
character, this is the first and last appearance of Thomas Bedford, 
so far as can be traced. Just before his death in 1652 he appears 
to have had a controversy with Eichard Payter • but taking all the 
evidence as it stands up to this point, he would have been a bold 
man who declared unhesitatingly that Bedford the Royalist and 
1 Clarendon, 1826, vol. i. p. 331. 
2 Troribles in England, fol., 1681, p. 37. 
