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BARBON (BAREBONE Or BAREBONES)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 389 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARBON (BAREBONE Or BAREBONES) , PRAISE-See also:GOD (c. 1596-1679), See also:English See also:leather-seller and Fifth See also:Monarchy See also:man, was admitted See also:freeman of the Leathersellers See also:Company on the loth of See also:January 1623 and liveryman on the 13th of See also:October 1634. About the same See also:time he became See also:minister to a See also:congregation which assembled at his own See also:house, " The See also:Lock and See also:Key," in See also:Fleet See also:Street, where his See also:preaching attracted large audiences. The exact nature of his religious opinions is not perfectly clear. He is styled by his enemies a Brownist and Anabaptist, i.e. probably Baptist, but he wrote two books in support of paedobaptism, and his congregation had separated from a larger one of See also:Baptists on that point of controversy. Later he belonged to the See also:sect of Fifth Monarchy men. He was the See also:object of the abuse and ridicule of the opposite party, and his meetings were fre-389 quently disturbed by riots. On the loth of See also:December 1641 his house was stormed by a See also:mob and he narrowly escaped with his See also:life. Barbon, who was a man of substantial See also:property, was summoned by See also:Cromwell on the 6th of See also:June 1653 as a member for See also:London to the See also:assembly of nominees called after him in derision Barebone's See also:Parliament. His name is occasionally mentioned, but he appears to have taken no See also:part in the debates. In i66o he showed See also:great activity in endeavouring to prevent the Restoration. He published Needham's See also:book, See also:News from See also:Brussels in a See also:Letter from a Near Attendant on His See also:Majesty's See also:Person .

. .,' which retailed unfavourable anecdotes See also:

relating to See also:Charles's morals, and on the 9th of See also:February he presented the See also:petition to the Parliament, which proposed that all officials should abjure the Stuarts, and all publicly proposing the Restoration should be deemed guilty of high See also:treason. His conduct See also:drew upon him several royalist attacks. On the 31st of See also:March he was obliged to sign an engagement to the See also:council not to disturb the See also:peace, and on the 26th of See also:November 1661 he was arrested, together with See also:John See also:Wildman and See also:James See also:Harrington, and was imprisoned in the See also:Tower till the 27th of See also:July 1662, when he was released on See also:bail. Barbon, who was married, was buried on the 5th of January 1680. He was the author of A Discourse tending to prove . . See also:Baptism . . . to be the See also:ordinance of Jesus See also:Christ. As also that the Baptism of Infants is warentable (1642), the See also:preface of which shows a spirit of wide religious tolerance; and A Reply to the Frivolous and Impertinent See also:answer of R. B. and E. B. to the Discourse of P. B. (1643).

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