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NICHOLAS FERRAR (1592-1637)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS See also:FERRAR (1592-1637)  , See also:English theologian, was See also:born in See also:London in 1592 and educated at See also:Clare See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, graduating in Oro . He was obliged for some years to travel for his See also:health, but on returning to See also:England in 1618 became actively connected with the See also:Virginia See also:Company . When this company was deprived of its patent in 1623 See also:Ferrar turned his See also:attention to politics, and was elected to See also:parliament . But he sncsn deridedto devote himself to a religious See also:life; he See also:purchased the See also:manor of Little Gidding in See also:Huntingdonshire, where he organized a small religious community . Here, iii 1626, he was ordained a See also:deacon by See also:Laud, and declining preferment, he lived an austere, almost monastic life of study and See also:good See also:works . He died on the 4th of See also:December 1637, and the See also:house was despoiled and the community broken up ten years later . There are extant a number of " harmonies " of the See also:Gospel, printed and See also:bound by the community, two of them by Ferrar himself . One of the latter was made for See also:Charles I. on his See also:request, after a visit in 1633 to see the " Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding, " which had been the subject of some scandalous—and undeserved—See also:criticism .

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