Item II/v/03 - The English Rechabite; or, a Defyance to Bacchus and all his works: A Poem

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GB 2014 WS-01-GRE-II/v/03

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The English Rechabite; or, a Defyance to Bacchus and all his works: A Poem

Date(s)

  • 1957 (Accumulation)
  • 1681 (Publication)

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Fo , 1 volume

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Name of creator

(1625-1685)

Biographical history

WHITEHALL, ROBERT, second son of Rev. Robert Whitehall, Rector of Addington, Bucks., and his first wife; bapt. 18 Mar 1625; adm.; KS 1639; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1643, Westminster Student; BA 1647; ejected from his Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission 7 Jul 1648; afterwards submitted; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1651, Sub-Warden in 1671; MA 1652; when “Terrae Filius” in 1655 he derided the Puritan discipline under which the University was then governed; MB 7 Sep 1657 (by letters from Richard Cromwell, Chancellor of the University); allowed leave of absence in 1657 to give instruction at Trinity Coll. Dublin (Brodrick, Memorials of Merton, 106); licensed to practice medicine 21 Jun 1665; Wood describes him as “no better than a meer poetaster, and time serving poet”, who made “divers sallies into the practice of physic” (Ath. Oxon., iv, 177); author Technepolemogamia, or the Marriage of Arms and Art, and other minor poems; d. 8 Jul 1685. DNB.

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Access to rare books is granted to bona-fide researchers, by prior appointment, in cases where the item in unavailable at another UK repository.

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Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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WS-GRE-II/v/3

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GB 2014

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Final

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Partial

Language(s)

  • English

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  • Latin

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