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Richard BAXTER 1615-91
Biographical Note
Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcestershire 1648 (ejected 1662); licensed to preach in London, 1672. A hugely influential devotional author, and a leading figure in late 17th-century English nonconformity.
Books
His surviving library catalogue shows him to have had a collection of ca.1500 volumes.
Sources
- Cambers, A. Godly reading, Cambridge, 2011, 131.
- Hoare, P. (gen.ed.), The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006, II 179-80.
- Keeble, N. H. "Baxter, Richard (1615–1691), ejected minister and religious writer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Matthews, A. G. Calamy revised. Oxford, 1934.
- Nuttall, G. A transcript of Richard Baxter’s library catalogue, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2 (1951), 207-21, 3 (1952) 74-100.