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Thomas Beard (theologian)

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462: 81:, later in the year. In 1605, Beard became master of Huntingdon hospital and grammar school, where he remained for twenty years. It was at this school that Cromwell was educated from around 1604, and was prepared for entrance to Cambridge; he acted in Beard's school plays, and Beard became a friend of the Cromwell family. In March 1614, Beard asked Sir 404:
Antichrist the Pope of Rome; or the Pope of Rome is Antichrist. Proved in two treatises. In the first, by a full definition of Antichrist, by a plain application of his definition agreeing with the pope, by the weaknesse of the arguments of Bellarmine, Florimond, Raymond, and others, which are here
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The Theatre of Gods Iudgements; or, a Collection of Histories out of Sacred, Ecclesiastical, and Prophane Authors, concerning the admirable iudgements of God upon the transgressours of his commandements. Translated out of French, and avgmented by more than three hundred Examples, by Th. Beard.
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accused of anti-puritan practices, Beard was summoned as a witness against him. Cromwell's speech in the debate on the subject covers his likely testimony (the parliament was dissolved before Beard could testify). Beard had been appointed in 1617 to preach a sermon on the Sunday after
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Exact quote from Beards "The Theatre of Gods Judgements" on bullet catch by Coulen of Lorraine by Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz, Houdini Museum
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Chassingnon's book provided hundreds of the examples, while Beard added in a scattering from other sources closer to home: Foxe, John Stowe,
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was the preacher whom Beard had to follow, but he announced his intention of exposing Alabaster's support of certain tenets of
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and matriculated in 1584. He graduated B.A. in 1588, M.A. in 1591, B.D. in 1602 and D.D. in 1614. He became rector of
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He was, it is believed, a native of Huntingdon, but the date of his birth is unknown. He received his education at
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where he settled in 1618 for the rest of his life. In 1626, Beard also held a popular lectureship at Huntingdon.
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in London, in which, according to custom, he was to recapitulate three sermons previously preached before the
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Evangelical Tragoedie: or, A Harmonie of the Passion of Christ, according to the four Evangelistes
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for the county. He was married, and had children by Mary Heriman; they were married 9 July 1628.
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Pedantius, Comoedia olim Cantab, acta in Coll. Trin. nunquam ante haec typis evulgata
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Huguenots de France, le site portail de la genealogie protestante en France
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Histoires memorables des grans et merveilleux jugemens et punitions de Dieu
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in 1595. On 21 January 1598 he was collated to the rectory of
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Index


Puritan
Oliver Cromwell
Huntingdon
Jesus College, Cambridge
sizar
Kimbolton
Hengrave
Suffolk
Aythorpe Roding
Essex
Robert Bruce Cotton
Conington
Wistow
Richard Neile
House of Commons of England
Easter
lord mayor
Spital Square
William Alabaster
popery
diocesan bishop
diocese of Lincoln
Nicholas Felton
justice of the peace
Edward Wedlake Brayley
All Saints' Church, Huntingdon
William Laud
John Foxe
Acts and Monuments

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