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About Nicholas Ferrar
- Nicholas Ferrar (22 February 1592 – 4 December 1637) was an English scholar, courtier and businessman ordained deacon in the Church of England.
- He lost much of his fortune in the Virginia Company and retreated with his extended family in 1626 to the manor of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire for his remaining years, in an informal spiritual community following High Anglican practice.
- His friend, the poet and minister George Herbert (1593–1633) on his deathbed sent Ferrar the manuscript of The Temple, telling him to publish the poetry if they might "turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul." "If not, let him burn it; for I and it are less than the least of God's mercies." Ferrar published them in 1633; they have remained in print.
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