Yesterday I read an essay entitled "Baptists: the Fount of all Heresy" which made me smile, and which probably explains a few things. I also came across mention of an obscure, and new to me, sect called the Muggletonians, which sounds like something out of J K Rowling's writing. I am somewhat intrigued by the vast number of whacky-sounding sects that emerged during the 16th/17th centuries, including one which was attributed to one of my own, nominal, forebears - the Gortonites were a weird lot (nuff said, you all cry) whose founder was expelled from Britain. Not sure that any of this gets me anywhere, but it is fun to discover just how weird England might have been in those days.
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Now had you attended LKH a couple of years earlier - and learnt your church history from the late lamented Ian Sellers you would have known all about the Muggletonians - we were particularly taken with their habit of meeting in the local tavern and waiting upon the divine word over a pint or three of beer - hence whilst the official histories claim that they died out at the beginning of the 20th Century - there was in fact a group of Muggltonians meeting in the Welcome from 94-98 and then in selected taverns around the country to see the new Millinium in - good times!