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Family of Love may refer to Familist s, a mystic religious community in renaissance England and the Low Countries Family International Children of God , a new religious movement, which later used the names Family of Love and as of 2006, Family International The Family Of Love , a play by Thomas Middleton , written in the 17th century disambig ... more details
John Everard 1584? 1641 was an English preacher and author. He was also a Familist , hermetic thinker, Neoplatonist, and alchemist. ref Allison Coudert, Henry More, Kabbalah, and Quakers , p. 47 in Richard W. F. Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin editors , Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640 1700 1991 . ref He is known for his translations of mystical and hermetic literature. Life He graduated B.A, at Clare College, Cambridge in 1600, M.A. in 1607, and D.D in 1619. He was lecturer at St Martin in the Fields from 1618. He was imprisoned, twice in a short space of time, for preaching about Spanish cruelties, as a way of commenting against the Spanish Match . ref Alan Stewart, The Cradle King A Life of James VI & I 2003 , p. 308. ref ref http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx?compid 88813 ref He was later chaplain to Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland , and a religious radical pursuing his own beliefs. He lived for some years with the furnace maker William White colonist William White , and during the 1620s was in touch with Robert Fludd he possessed copied manuscripts of Nicholas Hill scientist Nicholas Hill . He was a friend of Roger Brereley the Grindletonian , and was praised by John Webster minister John Webster . He was brought before the Court of High Commission in 1636, when he was vicar of Fairstead, Essex , and charged with various heresies Familism, Antinomianism , Anabaptism . He was fined heavily. On a second occasion, in 1640, he recanted his spiritualist beliefs. ref http muir.massey.ac.nz bitstream 10179 666 1 AMB54.3 WhiteWoodward.pdf Bruce White and Walter Woodward, A Most Exquisite Fellow William White and an Atlantic World Perspective on the Seventeenth Century Chymical Furnace ref ref Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution ... formalist and Familist Ranter . ref Christopher Hill, A Nation of Change and Novelty 1993 ... John Everard, Giles Randall and Others T. W. Hayes, John Everard and the Familist tradition , in Margaret ... more details
Christopher Vitell or Viret fl. 1543 1579 , a Dutch carpenter or joiner from Southwark , was the first Familist or Anabaptist preacher in England though he subsequently recanted his belief when faced with death by burning. ref Robert Wallace Unitarian Robert Wallace Antitrinitarian Biography or, Sketches of the lives and writings of distinguished Antitrinitarians 3 vol. London, 1850. ref Vitell appears to have developed his Anabaptist beliefs from the Dutchman Henry Nicholis . Life A native of Delft , settled in England some time before the middle of the sixteenth century. He changed views in religion, professing Arianism under Mary I of England Queen Mary , and being imprisoned in Wood Street, London, until on Elizabeth s succession he recanted his errors before Edmund Grindal at St. Paul s Cross . Eventually, however, Vitell became a convert to the teaching of Nicholis Henrik Niclaes , the founder of the Familists or Family of Love. ref name DNB cite DNB wstitle Vitell, Christopher ref He wandered up and down in East Anglia spreading mystical doctrines, and found a hearing at Cambridge , Willingham in Cambridgeshire , Strethall in Essex , at Colchester where he was living at Michaelmas 1555 , and other places. He became a chief elder in the family, and translated into English the writings of Niclaes, and one or two by Elidad and Fidelitas, his seniors. The result of Vitell s translation was a proclamation issued in 1580 by Archbishop Grindal against the family and all their writings. ref name DNB There is no authentic record of his later life. ref name DNB Works Eight of the treatises The Prophetie of the Spirit of Love, A Publishing of the Peace upon Earth, A joyful Message of the Kingdom, Proverbs, Documentall Sentences, Correction and Exhortation out of Heartie Loue, A good and fruitfull Exhortation, A Distinct Declaration were printed abroad in 1574 and covertly introduced into England. They occasioned the attack of John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible S ... more details
About the 16th century mystic the American businessman Henry Nicholas No footnotes date June 2010 Hendrik Nicholis or Hendrik Niclaes , Heinrich Niclaes c.1501 c.1580 was a German mysticism mystic and founder of the Christian sect Familists Family of Love a.k.a. Familists , Familia Caritatis or Hus der Lieften . Life Nicholis was born in 1501 or 1502 at M nster , where he was married and was a prosperous merchant. As a boy he was subject to visions, and at the age of twenty seven charges of heresy led to his imprisonment. About 1530 he removed with his family to Amsterdam , where he was again imprisoned on a charge of complicity Contradict inline article Familist date February 2011 in the M nster Rebellion of 1534 1535. About 1539 he experienced a call to found his Family of Love . In 1540 he moved to Emden , where he prospered in business for twenty years, though he traveled to the Netherlands, England and elsewhere with commercial and missionary objectives. The date of his sojourn in England has been placed as early as 1552 and as late as 1569. His activities in England contributed to the Puritan controversies that formed the backdrop of Queen Elizabeth I s reign. Nicholis hoped that his Family of Love could promote wider religious reformation in Europe. He worked through powerful friends to bring about change Christopher Plantin , Abraham Ortel who called himself Ortelius , and the genre painter and political cartoonist Pieter Brueghel the Elder . His doctrines seem to have been derived largely from the Dutch Anabaptist David Joris . The date of his death is unknown in 1579 he was living at Cologne , and it is likely that he died there a year or two later. Work Most of his writings come from his time at Emden. His primary work was Den Spegel der Gherechticheit dorch den Geist der Liefden unde den vergodeden Menscit I IN. uth de hernmelisc tie Warheit betuget . It appeared in an English form with Nicholis s revisions as An introduction to the holy Understanding of ... more details
Samuel Pordage 1633 c.1691 was a 17th century English people English poet . He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai 1682 , a reply to John Dryden s Absalom and Achitophel . Life Samuel was the eldest son of John Pordage , a clergyman from Bradfield, Berkshire Bradfield in Berkshire , by his first wife, and was baptised at St Dionis Backchurch , London, on 29 December 1633. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School, Northwood Merchant Taylors School from 1644, and studied law at Lincoln s Inn . At the trial of his father ten years later he appears to have been one of the witnesses. In his title pages he described himself as of Lincoln s Inn and a student of physick. He was at one time chief steward to Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke . Roger L Estrange attacked Pordage in the Observator for 5 April 1682 on account of A brief History of all the Papists bloudy Persecutions, calling him limping Pordage, a son of the famous Familist about Reading, Berkshire Reading and the author of several libels, one against L Estrange. Dryden, in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel, published in November, described Pordage as blockquote Lame Mephibosheth, the wizard s son. blockquote Works He made various translations, wrote poems, and laid claim to two tragedies, Herod and Mariamne 1673 , and The Siege of Babylon 1678 , and a romance, Eliana novel Eliana . While living with his father at the parsonage of Bradfield in 1660 he published a translation from Seneca the Younger , with notes, called Troades Englished. About the same time he published Poems upon Several Occasions, by S. P., gent., a little volume which included panegyrics on Charles II and General George Monck , but which consisted for the most part of poems in the style of Robert Herrick . In 1661 a volume appeared called Mundorum Explicatio, or the explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure. Being a Sacred Poem, written by S. P., Armig. This book, which was reissued in 1663, is attributed to Samuel Pordage, thoug ... more details
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Lygonia was a proprietary province in pre colonial Maine , created through a grant from the Plymouth Council for New England in 1630 to lands then under control of Sir Ferdinando Gorges . The grant was named for his mother, Cicely Lygon Gorges. The original patent has been lost, but from a 1686 abstract of title, it assigned ...unto Bryan Bincks, John Dye, John Smith & others their Associates their heirs & Assigns for Ever, Two Islands in the River Sagadahock Sagedahock , near the South Side thereof about convert 60 mi km from the Sea & also all the Tract containing convert 40 mi km in Length & convert 40 mi km in breadth upon the South side of the River Sagadahock, with all Bayes, Rivers, Ports, Inletts, Creeks, etc. together with all Royalties & Privileges within the Precincts thereof calling the same by the Name of the Province of Ligonia with power to make Laws etc. ref Farnum Papers , p. 128. ref Geographical interpretation of the grant s bounds is that it encompassed some convert 1600 sqmi km2 between Cape Porpoise and today s Kennebec River , ref Maine Bicentennial Atlas , p. 4 and Plate Seven. ref so large that its size may have been unintended, since it took in a large part of Gorges own grant for his Province of Maine . But it was never repudiated, and survived later challenges in English courts. Assignees of the patent were members of the Plough Company of London, set up by the Council for New England to encourage settlement within the northeasterly portion of Gorges domain. The intention was to support Gorges scheme for permanent settlements with a mixed economy of farming and production of forest products for trade to augment the fishing enterprises already established along the Maine seaboard. The would be settlers of the Plough Company were classified by John Winthrop as members of a small religious sect known as Familist s, most of them farmers, and associated as the Company of Husbandmen . They chose as their minister Stephen Bachiler , who although ... more details
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