biography
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| lived:
| (1592–1637)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman and spiritual mystic, born in London, UK. After studying medicine, and a brief period in politics, he became a deacon in the Church of England (1626). At Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire he founded a small religious community which engaged in constant services and perpetual prayer, while carrying out a range of crafts, such as bookbinding. It was broken up by the Puritans in 1647. |
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