Praise-God Barebone/Barbon | |
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| Member of Parliament in Barebone's Parliament | |
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| Born | c. 1598 |
| Died | 1679 |
| Profession | Preacher, leather-seller |
Praise-God Barebone (sometimes spelled Barbon)[1] (c. 1598–1679) was an English leather-seller, preacher, and Fifth Monarchist. He is best known for giving his name to the Barebone's Parliament of the English Commonwealth of 1653.[2]
- ^ The surname is also spelled Barbon or Barbone.
- ^ In notes of a trial in an ecclesiastical case to which Dr. William Bates was a party, Barbon in giving evidence incidentally mentioned that he was eighty years of age. This was in 1676, which would place his year of birth around 1596 (Grosart 1885, p. 151 cites Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, iii. 453). Stephen Wright, the author of the 21st century Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, lists the date of birth as c. 1598 without citing a source (Wright 2006).