tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871180.post116335563412334778..comments2024-01-22T09:29:11.683+00:00Comments on The Conventicle: Justification of a MadmanChris Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08832290458905110111noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871180.post-1163519827172273362006-11-14T15:57:00.000+00:002006-11-14T15:57:00.000+00:00Great post! Thanks for the sneak peek. :-)Great post! Thanks for the sneak peek. :-)doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18402848051284980448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871180.post-1163508550558764482006-11-14T12:49:00.000+00:002006-11-14T12:49:00.000+00:00Bridges, NO scholarship could destroy the dowsing ...Bridges, NO scholarship could destroy the dowsing legend in Suffolk, it has a life of its own.<BR/> Among the high church types, not the throngs of Strict Baptists, obviously.<BR/> Efforts have been made to explain the truth, but the legend is... well, a genuine legend.Highland Hosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18205436472908741409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871180.post-1163415564618367512006-11-13T10:59:00.000+00:002006-11-13T10:59:00.000+00:00Thank you, Highland Host! A most welcome warning....Thank you, Highland Host! A most welcome warning. I have discovered that recent scholarship has "debunked" a lot of Dowsing legend. Perhaps that has not made it to the masses in suffolk yet. In his journal, it seems that Dowsing himself exaggerates a bit. I am interested in the part he played in the reversal of Laudian innovations and the further removal of pre-Reformation idolatry as well. Bridgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17110283457841172630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15871180.post-1163413862290259032006-11-13T10:31:00.000+00:002006-11-13T10:31:00.000+00:00Dowsing has passed into legend in Suffolk. Whereve...Dowsing has passed into legend in Suffolk. Wherever there is a defaced piece of carving, a battered font or even a ruined church, the locals will tell you that William Dowsing did it.<BR/> Of course, he didn't. No man could have. The ruined churches are the result of population shifts, and a lot of iconoclasm took place in Suffolk during the Reformation (Suffolk is still very much a nonconformistHighland Hosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18205436472908741409noreply@blogger.com