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Accepted Lister (Mar 1671 - 25 Feb 1709)

Dissenting minister: “VDM” verbi divini minister (Minister of the Divine Word) in Ralph Thoresby's annotation. According to Wright, he was "educated under Matthew Smith at Mixenden in the parish of Halifax, who was a non-conformist minister there, and author of various theological treatises. He was ordained by Mr. Frankland, Mr. Heywood, and Mr. Thorpe, (all ministers who had been ejected in 1662), other ministers being present, on the 6th of June, 1694, at the meeting place at Horton near Bradford. ... [He] first settled as a minister at Kipping, but removed thence to Bingley in 1695, from whence he went to Thornton, and finally appears to have returned to Kipping" (vii-viii) Relevant locations: Birth place in Allerton
Workplace or place of business Thornton, Yorkshire
 Relationships: Accepted Lister was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Richard Frankland (1630-1698)
Accepted Lister was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Oliver Heywood (bap. 15 Mar 1629/30-1702)
Accepted Lister was a visitor to the collection of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

 Linked manuscript items: as Mentioned or referenced by - "[Guest Book to Thoresby's Museum]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27, Leeds
 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - The autobiography of Joseph Lister, of Bradford in Yorkshire, to which is added a contemporary account of the defence of Bradford and capture of Leeds by the Parliamentarians in 1642.
 References in Documents:
Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
Jan. 8o 170⅚ Impendam & Expendar[*] 2 Corinthians 12:15: "I will spend and be spent" A:Accepted Lister. (of Thornton VDM)*