The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Richard Hooke (1623 - 1688)
Church of England clergyman and polemicist. Admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge at the age of 16 on 14 June 1639, graduating B.A. in 1642, M.A. in 1651. and D.D, in 1665. Ordained as a deacon and priest 25 July 1646, preaching throughout the diocese of York, then: Vicar at St John the Baptist, Halifax, 1662-1689; Rector at Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire in 1668; Prebend of Grindal at York Minster, 1670-1689. Master at St John the Baptist Hospital, Ripon 1672-1689, and Master of St Mary Magdalene Hospital 1672-1711. Held the Prebend of Oxton, First Part at Southwell Minister from 1675 to 1689. (GEMMS-PERSON-20911).Author of The Non-Conformists Champion, His Challenge Accepted (1682) attacking Richard Baxter. Other biography: https://gemms.usask.ca/node/786695 Relevant locations: Birth place in Wigan, Greater Manchester
Workplace or place of business Halifax, West Yorkshire
Workplace or place of business York Minster, York
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The non-conformists champion, his challenge accepted, or, An answer to Mr. Baxter's Petition for peace written long since, but now first published upon his repeated provocations and importune clamors, that it was never answered: whereunto is prefixed an epistle to Mr. Baxter with some remarks upon his Holy Common-wealth, upon his Sermon to the House of Commons, upon his Non-conformists plea for peace and upon his Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet.
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
or the Duelling Doctor
defeated, Being a Polemical Essay to shield Mr. Baxter, and the
Non-Conformists, from the Decretorial Arms of Dr. 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 Tho. Sharp