CRADOCK
,
RICHARD
(
fl.
1660-90
),
Nonconformist preacher, of the Independent persuasion
.
He was reported by the
Llandaff
authorities in
1669
as
teacher
at the
Newton Nottage
conventicle in company with the
Baptist
Lewis
Thomas
, which seems to show
Baptists
and
Independents
arriving at a concordat under the stress of persecution; in
1672
he did not take out a licence to preach under the
Declaration of Indulgence
, but
Watkin
Cradock
did so at his own house in
Nottage
, this
Cradock
, presumably, being son or brother to
Richard
. He had been
teaching elder
in the
Cilfwnwr
congregation (later
Tirdoncyn
) since
March 1666
; this is supported by the report of the
Glamorgan
churches sent by
Henry
Maurice
to
Broadmead
in
1675
, and by the entry in the
Tirdoncyn
register recording
Cradock
's death on
6 July 1690
.
Bibliography:
-
Lambeth MS.
639 (187b);
-
Reference is made to two editions, by E. B.
Underhill, 1847, and Nathaniel Haycroft, 1865. Reference is
also made to Addenda B (pp. 511–9 in 1847 ed)
(ed.
Underhill
), addenda B, 514;
-
The Carmarthen Antiquary
, xv, 51.
Author:
Thomas Richards, D.Litt., (1878-1962), Bangor
