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The life of John Rastrick, 1650-1727 / edited by Andrew Cambers.
Van Pelt - Yarnall Collection BX5199.R37 R37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rastrick, John, 1650-1727.
- Series:
- Camden fifth series ; v. 36.
- Camden fifth series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rastrick, John, 1650-1727.
- Rastrick, John.
- Clergy--England--Biography.
- Clergy.
- Dissenters, Religious.
- England.
- Dissenters, Religious--England--Biography.
- England--Church history--17th century.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2010.
- Summary:
- The Life of John Rastrick, 1650-1727
- This volume makes available in print for the first time an edition of the manuscript autobiography of John Rastrick, a Lincolnshire clergyman known chiefly for leaving the Church of England at the late date of 1687 to become minister to a succession of nonconformist congregations in Spalding, Rotherham, and King's Lynn.
- Despite his relative obscurity, Rastrick's engaging and entertaining autobiography illuminates many of the central issues in the religion and politics of the half-century after the Restoration, offering a uniquely personal perspective upon both national and local events. Along the way, it provides a distinctly individual account of a minister's understanding of science and the natural world; education, reading practices, and intellectual culture; marriage, family life, feuds, and friendships.
- At once a pearl of nonconformist writing and a treasure-trove of information, Rastrick's autobiography is an essential resource for those interested in the religion, politics, and culture of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- John Rastrick: fragments of a life 1
- John Rastrick's publications and manuscripts 11
- 'A Narrative; Or An Historicall Account Of The most Materiall passages In the Life of John Rastrick' 13
- Editorial Conventions 21
- A Narrative; Or An Historical Account of the Most Materiall Passages in the Life of John Rastrick 27.
- Notes:
- Contains text of Rastrick's ms. autobiography "A narrative; or an historicall account of the most materiall passages in the life of John Rastrick" (Huntington Library MS HM 6131).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107007703
- 1107007704
- OCLC:
- 673007098
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