arters of the land.
That some did emigrate with their pastor is probable, since we learn that
there is a town called Wrentham across the Atlantic, said to have
received that name because some of the first settlers came from Wrentham
in England.

Touching Mr. Phillip, a good deal has been written by the Rev. John
Browne, the painstaking author of 'The History of Congregationalism in
Suffolk and Norfolk.' It appears that his arrival in America was not
unexpected, as the Christian people of Dedham had invited him to that
plantation beforehand. He did not, however, accept their invitation, but
being much in request, 'and called divers ways, could not resolve; but,
at length, upon weighty reasons concerning the public service and
foundations of the college, he was persuaded to attend to the call of
Cambridge;' and, adds an American writer, 'he might have been the first
head of that blessed institution.' On the calling of the Long
Parliament, he and his wife returned to England, and in 1642 we find him
ministering to his old flock. So satisfied were the neighbouring
Independents of his Congregationalism, that when, in 1644, members of Mr.
Bridge's church residing in Norwich desired to form themselves into a
separate community, they not only consulted with their brethren in
Yarmouth, but with Mr. Phillip also, as the only man then in their
neighbourhood on whose judgment and experience they could rely. In 1643
Mr. Phillip was appointed one of the members of the Assembly of Divines,
and was recognised by Baillie in his Letters as one of the Independent
men there. The Independents, as we know, sat apart, and were a sad thorn
in the Presbyterians' side. Five of them, more zealous than the rest,
formally dissented from the decisions of the Assembly, and afraid that
toleration would not be extended to them, appealed to Parliament, 'as the
most sacred refuge and asylum for mistaken and misjudged innocence.' Mr.
Phillip's name, however, I do not find in that list; and possibly he was
too old to be very active in the matter. He lived on till 1660, when he
died at the good old age of seventy-eight. In the later years of his
ministry he was assisted by his nephew, W. Ames, who in 1651 preached a
sermon at St. Paul's, before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, 'On the Saint's
Security against Seducing Sports, or the Anointing from the Holy One.'
It is to be feared, in our more enlightened age, a good Wrentham
Congregational minister w