NICHOLAS FERRAR AND THE SO-CALLED ARMINIAN NUNNERY OF LITTLE GIDDING

Hearne, the antiquary, has preserved two curious documents relating to the Little Gidding establishment in the Appendix to his Preface to *Peter Langtoff's Chronicle*, Nos. IX. and X. See also *Thomæ Caii Vindiciæ*, vol. ii. The most complete account of this remarkable man is that by Dr. Peckard, formerly Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, entitled *Memoirs of the Life of Nicholas Ferrar*, published in 1790, which has now become extremely scarce, but has been reprinted by Dr. Wordsworth, in his *Ecclesiastical Biography*, who has given in an Appendix an account of the visit of the younger…