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REPLY1850

The Family of Love

By C. H. (St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge)

In addition to the work of John Rogers, referred to by DR. RIMBAULT (Vol. ii., p. 49.), the two following treatises, which were also published in the year 1579, will present your readers with much curious information respecting the "Family of Love." The first is entitled,— "A Confutation of certaine Articles delivered unto the Familye of Loue, with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in the sayd Familye, upon the same Articles, by William Wilkinson, Maister of Artes, and student of Divinitye, &c. &c. At London: Printed by John Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, Au. 1579." In the *Epist…

Topics: Family of Love, Heresy, Religious Sectarianism, Theology

Locations: London, Cambridge, Ely, Aldersgate, Three Cranes in the Vinctree, Dutche Churche