See also:

• NICHOLAS
• NICHOLAS (1841– )
• NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)
• NICHOLAS, SIR EDWARD (1593-1669)
• NICHOLAS, ST

NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)  , founder of the See also:

• SECT

sect called " the See also:

• FAMILY

Family of Love," was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1501 or 1502, at See also:

• MUNSTER
• MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN (1489-1552)

Munster, where he was married and carried on the business of a See also:

• MERCER (through Fr. mercier, from popular Lat. mercerius, a dealer, merx, merces, merchandise)

mercer . As a boy he was subject to visions, and at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty-seven charges of See also:

• HERESY

heresy led to his imprisonment . About 1530 he removed with his family to See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, where he was again imprisoned on a See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of complicity in the Munster revolution of 1534-1535 . About 1539 he experienced a See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call to found his " Familia Caritatis." Removing to Embden, he lived there and prospered in business for twenty years, though he travelled with commercial as well as missionary See also:

• OBJECTS

objects into the See also:

• NETHERLANDS

Netherlands, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and elsewhere . The date of his sojourn in England has been placed as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1552 and as See also:

• LATE

late as 1569 . In 1579 he was living at See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne, where probably he died a See also:

• YEAR

year or two later . His doctrines seem to have been derived largely from the Dutch Anabaptist See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David See also:

• JORIS, DAVID

Joris or See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George, who died in 1556; but they have mainly to be inferred from the jaundiced accounts of hostile writers . The outward trappings of his See also:

• SYSTEM

system were merely Anabaptist; but he anticipated a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good many later speculations, and his followers were accused of asserting that all things were ruled by nature and not directly by See also:

• GOD

God, of denying the See also:

• DOGMA (Gr. Sbypa, from b6aeiv, to seem; literally " that which seems, sc. good or true or useful " to any one)

dogma of the Trinity, and repudiating See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

• BAPTISM

baptism . They held that no See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man should be put to See also:

• DEATH

death for his opinions, and apparently, like the later See also:

• QUAKERS

Quakers, they objected to the carrying of arms and to anything like an See also:

• OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath; and they were quite impartial in their repudiation of all other churches and sects, including Brownists and Barrowists . See also:

• NICHOLAS
• NICHOLAS (1841– )
• NICHOLAS (or NICLAES), HENRY (or HENDRIK) (c. 1501-C. 158o)
• NICHOLAS, SIR EDWARD (1593-1669)
• NICHOLAS, ST

Nicholas's See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple in England was one See also:

• CHRISTOPHER, SAINT (Christophorus, Christoferus)

Christopher Vitel, and towards 1579 the progress of the sect especially in the eastern counties provoked See also:

• LITERARY

literary attacks, proclamations and See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary bills . But Nicholas's followers escaped the gallows and the stake, for they combined with some success the See also:

• WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom of the See also:

• SERPENT (Lat. serpens, creeping, from serpere; cf. "reptile " from repere, Gr.4 ml-eta)

serpent and the harmlessness of the See also:

• DOVE
• DOVE (Dutch duyve, Dan. due, Ice. dufa, Ger. Taube)

dove . They would only discuss their doctrines with sympathizers; they showed every respect for authority, and considered outward conformity a See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty .

This quietist attitude, while it saved them from molestation, hampered propaganda; and though the " Family " existed until the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, it was then swallowed up by the Quakers, See also:

• BAPTISTS

Baptists and Unitarians, all of which de-nominations may have derived some of their ideas through the " Family " from the See also:

• ANABAPTISTS (" re-baptizers," from Gr. apa and J3airri tt')

Anabaptists . The See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of Nicholas's See also:

• WORKS

works occupies nearly six columns in the See also:

• DIET

Diet . Nat . Biogr . See also See also:

• BELFORT
• BELFORT, TERRITOIRE
• BELFORT, TERRITORY OF

Belfort Bax, Rise and Fall of the Anabaptists, pp . 327-380 (1903) ; and See also:

• STRYPE, JOHN (1643-1737)

Strype's Works, See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• INDEX

Index . (A . F .