197 (in Parker Society Publications).

For Pilkington, see his Works, p.
177 (in same).

Among others sharing these opinions were Tyndale, Bishop Ridley, Archbishop Sandys, Becon, Calfhill, and Rogers.

It is to be noted that all of these speak of the rite as "baptism." Toward the end of the sixteenth century the Elector of Saxony strictly forbade the ringing of bells against storms, urging penance and prayer instead; but the custom was not so easily driven out of the Protestant Church, and in some quarters was developed a Protestant theory of a rationalistic sort, ascribing the good effects of bell-ringing in storms to the calling together of the devout for prayer or to the suggestion of prayers during storms at night.

As late as the end of the seventeenth century we find the bells of Protestant churches in northern Germany rung for the dispelling of tempests.