Nicholas Ferrar
was assumed to be born in 1592. I have found that his most
probable birth date was in February of 1593. This is due to the usual calendar
confusion: England was not at that time using the new calendar adopted in
October 1582. It was 1593 according to our modern calendar, but at the time the
new year in England began on the following March 25th.
Nicholas Ferrar was one of the more interesting figures in English history. His
family was quite wealthy and were heavily involved in the Virginia Company,
which had a Royal Charter for the plantation of Virginia. People like Sir Walter
Raleigh were often visitors to the family home in London. Ferrars˙ niece was
named Virginia, the first known use ...
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of Parliament, where he
tried to promote the cause for the Virginia Company. His efforts were in vain
for the company lost their charter anyway. Nicholas is given credit for founding
a Christian community called the English Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in
Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar was ordained as a deacon, he retired and
started his little community. Ferrar was given help and support with his semi-
religious community by John Collet, as well as Collet˙s wife and fourteen
children. They devoted themselves to a life of prayer, fasting and almsgiving
(Matthew 6:2,5,16).
The community was founded in 1626, when Nicholas was 34 years old. Banning
together, they restored an abandoned church that was being used as a barn. Being
of wealthy decent, Ferrar purchased the manor of Little Gidding, a village which
had been discarded since the Black Death (a major outbreak of the bubonic plague
in the 14th century), a few miles off the Great North Road, and ...
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which was produced by Mary Collet for King Charles I.. Some of the
bindings were in gold toothed leather, some were in velvet which had a
considerable amount of gold tooling. Some of the embroidered bindings of this
period have also been attributed to the so-called nuns of Little Gidding. The
community attracted much attention and was visited by the king, Charles I. He
was attracted by a gospel harmony they had produced. The king asked to borrow it
only to return it a few months later in exchange for a promise of a new harmony
to give his son, Charles, Prince of Wales. This the Ferrars did, and the
superbly produced and bound manuscript passed through the royal collection, and
is now on ...
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