Seventh Day Baptists
In 1660 with the end of the republican government and the restoration of the monarchy in England, relative religious freedom was again restricted mainly to English dissidents, forcing Seventh Day Baptists to increasingly unite in specific locations. Edward Stennett wrote in 1668 for Seventh Day Baptists in the city of Newport - USA that there were in England approximately nine or ten churches that observed the Sabbath, in addition to many scattered disciples who have rested on this great day.