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Thomas Sharp, Rev. (c.1634 - 1693)

Minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds. Elder brother of the mathematician and astronomer Abraham Sharp. He married his second wife, Faith Sale, in 1673 (Cudworth, 240-1). His friend, Ralph Thoresby, refers to him as the "learned" and "ingenious" Rev. Sharp.

Sharp wrote a response to James Owen’s The validity of the dissenting ministry: or, The ordaining power of presbyters evinced from the New Testament and church history (1716) and the question of “Whether Persons who have engaged unto Reformation, and another Way of Divine Worship, &c. may lawfully go unto, and attend on the Use of the Common Prayer-Book in Divine Worship, &c” (Thoresby, 536). In a letter to Thoresby dated 9 April 1696, Jonathan Priestly describes the Sharp’s manuscript as “not … proper to print” and in an earlier letter “too virulent and satyricall” (Lancaster, 46). Relevant locations: Lived at or near Little Horton, West Yorkshire
Workplace or place of business Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds
 Relationships: Thomas Sharp was a unspecified James Owen (1654-1706)
Thomas Sharp was a brother of Abraham Sharp (bap. 1653-1742)

Faith Sharp (c.1651-Jun 1710) was a wife of Thomas Sharp
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentioned or referenced by - Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp: The Yorkshire Mathematician and Assistant of Flamsteed; with Memorials of His Family and Associated Families.
as Mentions or references - Letters Addressed to Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S.: Printed from the Originals in the Possession of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society .
as Subject of/in a document - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Telescope large and curious, both the Tube turned, and the Glasses grinded by the Rev. and ingenious Mr. Tho. Sharp M. A. Don. Vid. F. Sharp.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 74. A very large Miscellany upon various Subjects, Sacred and Civil, Abbeys, Affliction, Aqueducts, Astronomy, Attributes of God, &c. To which are annexed Verses upon several Occasions, by Tho. Lord Fairfax, upon Solitude. Moses's Song, and Solomon's, &c. of the General's own Writing. A Transcript of his History of the late Wars: And of a Manuscript of the Reverend Mr. Sharp's so far as relates to those Times. The Country's Appeal to the City 1679.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 90. Lecture Sermons, from Psalm 90, 12, preached at Leedes Oct. and Nov. 1677, by the Rev. Mr. Tho. Sharp M. A. A Treatise concerning Divine Comforts, from Psalm 94. 19. by the said learned and pious Author. This latter is since printed from a Copy somewhat different.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

168. The Rev. and Learned Mr. Sharp's Answer to Dr. Owen's Query, Whether Persons who have engaged unto Reformation, and another Way of Divine Worship, &c. may lawfully go unto, and attend on the Use of the Common Prayer-Book in Divine Worship, &c. The Original of his own Writing. His brief View of the Civil War, in its three Scenes on the Parliaments Side; 1. of Conformists; 2. of Covenanters; 3. of Cromwellists.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

248. ΛOIƊOPOMAΣTIΞ. or the Duelling Doctor defeated, Being a Polemical Essay to shield Mr. Baxter, and the Non-Conformists, from the Decretorial Arms of Dr. Hook, in his Satyrical Piece, entituled, The Non-Conformists Champion his Challenge accepted; concerning Government, War, Liturgy, Gift of Prayer, Things indifferent, Reordination, &c. by T. J. M. A. (The Just Man's Advocate) alias Mr. Tho. Sharp, whose Autograph this is, and was given me by his Widow.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 260. The Government of the Town of Leedes before it was made a Corporation, drawn up by John Harrison Esq; from whose Autograph (penes Alderm. Tho. Dixon) I transcribed it. His Letter to Baron Rigby. His Prayer. This is not amongst those printed at the Request of his Friends 1647, (by Mr. John Jackson of Berwick.) Londons Exequies 1666, by the Learned Mr. Tho. Sharp. His Verses for and against Sleep (printed through Mistake as Cleavlands.) His Epitaph upon Mr. Elk. Wales, and Mr. John Thoresby.
A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a Telescope, the glasses ground & the tube turned by the Ingenious Tho: Sharp MA & VDM.