Adams, Thomas (1631/2–1670), ejected minister and writer on Christian doctrine, was born at Woodchurch parsonage, Cheshire, one of at least three sons of Charles Adams and his wife, Isabel Bennet 'the daughter of a worthy gentleman'—Thomas Bennet, from the same parish (...
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Adams, Thomas (1631/2–1670), ejected minister and writer on Christian doctrine
Caroline L. Leachman
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Alleine, Joseph (bap. 1634, d. 1668), ejected minister and devotional writer
Brian W. Kirk
Alleine, Joseph (bap. 1634, d. 1668), ejected minister and devotional writer, was born in a house next to the Poultry Market, Devizes, Wiltshire, and baptized on 8 April 1634, at St John's Church, there, the fourth child of Tobias Alleine (d. 1667)...
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Baxter, Richard (1615–1691), ejected minister and religious writer
N. H. Keeble
Baxter, Richard (1615–1691), ejected minister and religious writer, was born in the village of Rowton, Shropshire, on 12 November 1615, the son of Richard Baxter (d. 1663) of Eaton Constantine, Shropshire, and his wife, Beatrice Adeney (d. 1635). He was baptized in the parish church at ...
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Baxter, Richard (1615–1691)
Maker: John Riley
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Richard Baxter (1615–1691) attrib. John Riley by permission of Dr Williams's Library
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Coppin, Richard (fl. c. 1645–1659), nonconformist preacher and writer
Nigel Smith
Coppin, Richard (fl. c. 1645–1659), nonconformist preacher and writer, about whom little is known except what he recounts in Truths Testimony (1655), was probably from Kent, and grew up to be an unexceptional pious believer within the established church. He was probably a student at ...
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Huntington, William (1745–1813), preacher and religious writer
Clare Brant
Huntington, William (1745–1813), preacher and religious writer, was born on 2 February 1745 in a cottage at the Four Wents, on the road between Goudhurst and Cranbrook, Kent, the natural son of Barnabas Russel, farmer, and baptized on 14 November 1750 at Cranbrook church...
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Huntington, William (1745–1813)
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William Huntington (1745–1813) by Domenico Pellegrini, 1803 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lawrence [Laurence], Edward (d. 1695), ejected minister and religious writer
C. D. Gilbert
Lawrence [Laurence], Edward (d. 1695), ejected minister and religious writer, was born in Moston in Hawkstone, Shropshire, the son of William Laurence of Shrewsbury and his wife (d. 1653); although Edmund Calamy gives 1623 as his date of birth his matriculation record suggests 1627/8. Having attended ...
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Truman, Joseph (bap. 1631, d. 1671), clergyman and ejected minister, and religious writer
Stephen Wright
Truman, Joseph (bap. 1631, d. 1671), clergyman and ejected minister, and religious writer, son of Richard and Mary Truman, was born at Gedling, near Nottingham, and baptized there on 2 February 1631. His father, who was perhaps a curate, was attacked for speaking against the ...
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Wadsworth, Thomas (1630–1676), nonconformist minister and religious writer
Alexander Gordon
revised by J. William Black
Wadsworth, Thomas (1630–1676), nonconformist minister and religious writer, was born in the parish of St Saviour's, Southwark, on 15 December 1630, the son of Thomas Wadsworth, who was a friend of Samuel Bolton, master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and lecturer at St Saviour's...
