Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
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to _Herbert's Country Parson_, and in Bishop Hacket's _Life of Archbishop
Williams_. In _Baker's MSS._ (vol. xxxv. p. 389.) in the Public Library of Cambridge, is an article entitled "Large Materials for writing the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar." Isaac Walton, in his _Life of George Herbert_, also notices Ferrar, and describes minutely his mode of life at Little Gidding. From an advertisement at the end of Francis Peck's _Memoirs of Cromwell_, it appears that Peck had prepared for publication a _Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar_, no doubt the manuscript collections noticed by MR. RIMBAULT (p. 407.): "Little Gidding," it has been observed, "was in England what Port Royal was in France. Ardent devotion to the Redeemer characterised both. In each, peace, charity, good order, and love to the souls and bodies of men, were eminently exhibited; upon each the hand of persecution fell with unrelenting severity. Port Royal was destroyed by the Jesuits; Little Gidding by the Puritans." J.Y. Hoxton. _Arminian Nunnery in Huntingdonshire_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.).--Allow me to refer DR. RIMBAULT to Hacket's _Life of Archbishop Williams_, Part ii. p. 50.; Izaak Walton's _Life of George Herbert_; Peter Langloft's _Chronicle_, ed. Hearne, Preface, sect xi., Appendix to Preface, Nos. IX. and X.; _Caii VindiciƦ Antiquitatis AcademiƦ Oxoniensis_, ed. Hearne, vol. ii. p. 683. 693. 697. 702. 713.; and _Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar_, by Peter Peckard, D.D., Cambridge, 8vo., 1790 (which is reprinted with additions from a manuscript in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, in Dr. Wordsworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography_). In Dr. Peckard's Preface will |
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