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 the peroration of the sermon preached on 21 July 1620. This last point he drops (Hist. of Puritans, 1732), but it is taken up by Brook and others. This famous address, recollected after twenty-six years or more, owes something to the reporter's controversial needs.

Robinson published: 1. ‘An Answer to a Censorious Epistle’ [1610]; see above. 2. ‘A Ivstification of Separation from the Church of England,’ &c. [Leyden], 1610, 4to [Amsterdam], 1639, 4to (in reply to ‘The Separatists Schisme,’ by Bernard). Robinson's defence of this tract, against the criticisms of Francis Johnson, is printed in Ainsworth's ‘Animadversion to Mr. Richard Clyfton,’ &c., Amsterdam, 1613, pp. 111 seq. 3. ‘Of Religious Commvnion, Private & Publique,’ &c. [Leyden], 1614, 4to (against Helwys and Smyth). The British Museum copy (4323 b) has the autograph of Robinson's brother-in-law, Randall Thickins, and a few manuscript notes. 4. ‘A Manvmission to a Manvdvction,’ &c. [Leyden], 1615, 4to (in reply to ‘A Manvdvction for Mr. Robinson,’ &c., Dort, 1614, by Ames). 5. ‘The People's Plea for the Exercise of Prophesie,’ &c. [Leyden], 1618, 16mo; 2nd edit. 1641, 8vo (in reply to Yates). 6. ‘Apologia Ivsta et Necessaria … Quorundam Christianorum … dictorum Brownistarum, sive Barrowistarum,’ &c. [Leyden], 1619, 16mo. 7. ‘An Appeal on Truths Behalfe (concerninge some differences in the Church at Amsterdam),’ &c. [Leyden], 1624, 8vo. 8. ‘A Defence of the Doctrine propovnded by the Synode of Dort,’ &c. [Leyden], 1624, 4to. 9. ‘A Briefe Catechisme concerning Church Government,’ &c., Leyden, 1624? 2nd edit. 1642, 8vo; with title, ‘An Appendix to Mr. Perkins his Six Principles of Christian Religion,’ &c., 1656, 8vo. 10. ‘Observations Divine and Morall,’ &c. [Leyden], 1625, 4to; with new title-page, ‘New Essayes, or Observations Divine and Morall,’ &c. 1628, 4to; 2nd edit. ‘Essays, or Observations Divine and Morall,’ &c. 1638, 12mo. 11. ‘A Ivst and Necessarie Apologie for certain Christians … called Brownists or Barrowists,’ &c. [Leyden], 1625, 4to (see No. 6); 1644, 24mo, with ‘An Appendix to Mr. Perkins,’ &c. (See No. 9). Posthumous was: 12. ‘A Treatise of the Lawfulnes of Hearing of the Ministers in the Church of England,’ &c. [Amsterdam], 1634, 8vo; partly reprinted, with extracts from Philip Nye [q. v.], 1683, 4to. His ‘Works’ were edited (1851, 8vo, 3 vols. with ‘Life’) by Robert Ashton (No. 4 is not included, but is reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 4th ser. vol. i.); lengthy extracts from most of them will be found in Hanbury's ‘Historical Memorials,’ 1839, vol. i.

[After Robinson's own writings, the first authority for his Leyden life is William Bradford, whose History of Plymouth Plantation was first fully printed in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th ser. vol. iii. 1856; for the portion to 1620, with Bradford's Diary of Occurrences, his Letters, Winslow's Journal, and other documents, see Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, 2nd edit. 1844. Secondary sources are Morton's New England's Memoriall, 1669, Cotton Mather's Magnalia, 1702, and Prince's Chronological Hist. of New England, 1736 (the edition used above is 1852); all criticised in George Sumner's Memoirs of the Pilgrims at Leyden, Mass. Hist. Soc. 3rd ser. vol. ix. 1846, which gives results of research at Leyden. Hunter's Collections concerning the Founders of New Plymouth, 1849, are corrected on some points in Ashton's Life of Robinson, 1851, and are improved in Hunter's Collections concerning the Church at Scrooby, 1854. Most of Hunter's conjectures are adopted in Dexter's Congregationalism of Three Hundred Years, 1880, valuable for its bibliography. Baillie's Dissuasive from the Errours of the Time, 1646; Neal's Hist. of New England, 1720, i. 72 seq.; Neal's Hist. of the Puritans (Toulmin), 1822, ii. 43, 110; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, ii. 334 seq.; Marsden's Hist. of the Early Puritans, 1860, pp. 296 seq.; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. 1861, ii. 235; Evans's Early English Baptists, 1862, i. 202 seq.; Barclay's Inner Life of Religious Societies of the Commonwealth, 1876, pp. 63 seq.; Browne's Hist. of Congr. in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1877, p. 127; Proceedings at the Unveiling of the Tablet in Leyden, 1891; Brown's Pilgrim Fathers, 1895, pp. 94 seq.; extracts from register of Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, per the master; extracts from register and order-book of Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, per the master; extracts from the Norwich diocesan registers, per the Rev. G. S. Barrett, D.D.; extracts from the parish registers of Saxlingham Nethergate and Saxlingham Thorpe, per the Rev. R. W. Pitt; information from the dean of Lincoln and from the master of Christ's Coll. Cambridge.] 

ROBINSON, JOHN (1617–1681), royalist, son of William Robinson of Gwersyllt, Denbighshire, and grandson of Nicholas Robinson (d. 1585) [q. v.], bishop of Bangor, was born in 1617, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 26 Sept. 1634, at the age of seventeen (, Alumni Oxon.), and became a student of Gray's Inn, 23 Dec. 1637 (, Gray's Inn Register). He appears to have resided for some time in Dublin previous to the outbreak of the civil war in 1642. He exerted himself with great zeal on behalf of the royal cause in North Wales and the adjoining counties. Although only twenty-six years of age, he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was made governor of Holt Castle in Denbighshire in November 1643. In the