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2 unusual facts about Laurence Clarkson


Laurence Clarkson

Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667), sometimes called Claxton, was an English theologian and accused heretic.

He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose collection of radical Protestants known as the Ranters.


Muggletonianism

Notable Muggletonian writers include Laurence Clarkson (1615 - 1667) an itinerant preacher born in Preston, Lancashire; John Saddington (1634? - 1679) a London sugar merchant, originally from Arnesby, Leicestershire; Thomas Tomkinson (1631 - 1710) a Staffordshire yeoman farmer who moved to London in the 1680s; and Isaac Frost (1793 - 1858) and Joseph Frost (1791 - 1857), brothers who ran the family metallurgy business in Clerkenwell, London.


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