John Gale (1680-1722), an Arian, ministered to the Baptist congregation in the Barbican, London, along with the Socinian James Foster (1697-1753). John C. Carlile believed the congregation at the Barbican to be ‘the most influential congregation in the City’, mentioning Mordecai Abbot, a London Baptist who occupied several important government offices, including Receiver-General of the Customs under William III. See John C. Carlile, The Story of the English Baptists (London: James Clarke & Co, 1905), 155, 158.