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See also:FERRAR, See also:NICHOLAS (1592-1637) , See also:English theologian, was See also:born in See also:London in 1592 and educated at See also:Clare See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Cambridge, graduating in Oro. He was obliged for some years to travel for his See also:health, but on returning to See also:England in 1618 became actively connected with the See also:Virginia See also:Company. When this company was deprived of its patent in 1623 Ferrar turned his See also:attention to politics, and was elected to See also:parliament. But he sncsn deridedto devote himself to a religious See also:life; he See also:purchased the See also:manor of Little Gidding in See also:Huntingdonshire, where he organized a small religious community. Here, iii 1626, he was ordained a See also:deacon by See also:Laud, and declining preferment, he lived an austere, almost monastic life of study and See also:good See also:works. He died on the 4th of See also:December 1637, and the See also:house was despoiled and the community broken up ten years later. There are extant a number of " harmonies " of the See also:Gospel, printed and See also:bound by the community, two of them by Ferrar himself. One of the latter was made for See also:Charles I. on his See also:request, after a visit in 1633 to see the " Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding, " which had been the subject of some scandalous—and undeserved—criticism.
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