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37: 400: 126:, Royalist troops attacked a minister reported to be a lunatic, "whereupon they supposing him to be Mr. Roberts, Minister of Birmingham, did most cruelly mangle and hack him to death" 104: 364: 318: 177: 28: 150: 405: 130: 173: 123: 92: 107:, one of the first public libraries in England, and developed a reputation as a "famed lecturer". During the 76: 395: 390: 108: 169: 195:(1665) – written for "the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible". 360: 314: 154: 88: 17: 142: 134: 384: 99:, where he married in 1635 and where two of his children – Mary and Elizabeth – were 172:
he conformed to the Church of England and in 1673 he was the first chaplain to the
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Roberts was a notable author, writing both scholarly and popular works including
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the same year. Under Roberts, the parish became one of the city's most strongly
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Mysterium & medulla bibliorum, the Mysterie and Marrow of the Bible
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The book makers of old Birmingham: authors, printers, and book sellers
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Puritan London: a study of religion and society in the city parishes
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English Presbyterian ministers of the Interregnum (England)
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in 1637 and 1638. While in Birmingham he founded the first
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Francis Roberts (puritan)
Francis Roberts (disambiguation)

English
puritan
clergyman
author
librarian
Methley
Leeds
Trinity College, Oxford
curate
John Burges
Sutton Coldfield
St Martin in the Bull Ring
Birmingham
baptised
Birmingham Library
Battle of Birmingham
Parliamentarian
puritan
Royalist
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
St Augustine Watling Street
City of London
presbyterian
Robert Baillie
Simeon Ashe
Thomas Edwards
Cornelius Burges

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