Protestant'. His opposition to the restoration of Episcopacy in the Church of England, and support for Puritan regulations prohibiting drunkenness and profanity were out of step with the public mood. He lost his position as Recorder in October 1660, and did not stand again for election as an MP. His brother Francis, a former Royalist and Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, rejected his conservative religious beliefs and became an advocate of Sabbatarianism. Bampfield opposed the 1662 Act of Uniformity which evicted priests who refused to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles; they included Francis, who spent the next nine years in Dorchester gaol. Thomas was later converted to Sabbatarianism by Francis, who set up a community of Seventh Day Baptists in prison. Removed as a JP in 1665, Thomas regained some of his former positions in 1688, as the Catholic James II tried to build support among Nonconformists but relinquished them after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. In his last years, he published several works on Sabbatarianism, which elicited responses from mathematician and theologian John Wallis, as well as Baptist minister Isaac Marlow. He died on 8 October 1693, and was buried at St Stephen's Church, Exeter. Published works "An Enquiry Whether the Lord Jesus Christ made the World, and be Jehovah, and gave the Moral Law? And Whether the Fourth Command be Repealed or Altered?" "A reply to Doctor Wallis" References Sources Speakers of the House of Commons of England Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Exeter 1623 births 1693 deaths Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1654–1655 English MPs 1656–1658 English MPs 1659 English MPs 1660 English justices of the peace