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Chillenden, Edmund (fl. 1631–1678), parliamentarian army officer and General Baptist leader  

P. R. S. Baker

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Chillenden, Edmund (fl. 1631–1678), parliamentarian army officer and General Baptist leader, was the son of William Chillenden, yeoman, of Faversham, Kent. His father had died by the time he was bound to the Merchant Taylors' Company of London in February 1631. He gained his freedom of the company in March 1637 and worked for his former master as a button-seller living in ...

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Dell, Jonas (d. 1665?), soldier and religious writer  

Stephen Wright

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Dell, Jonas (d. 1665?), soldier and religious writer, may have fought in the parliamentarian army in the civil war. Nothing is known about his origins or early life, but in 1658 he attacked a corrupt establishment thus: 'I did not think at ...

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Larke, Sampson (bap. 1620, d. 1685), republican soldier and Baptist preacher  

Stephen K. Roberts

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26 May 2016

Larke, Sampson (bap. 1620, d. 1685), republican soldier and Baptist preacher, was baptized at Poundstock, north Cornwall, on 27 August 1620, the son of Sampson Larke (d. in or before 1654), a yeoman farmer, and his wife, Agnes, whose name before marriage is not known. He was one of at least three children to survive infancy, and his father was churchwarden of ...