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'''Henry Stubbe''' or '''Stubbes''' (1632, [[Partney]], [[Lincolnshire]] – 1676, [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]), writer and scholar. he was educated at [[Westminster School]]. Given patronage as a child by the [[Puritan]], [[Henry Vane the Younger]], he obtained a scholarship to [[Christ Church, Oxford]], from which he graduated in 1653. This being the time of the [[English Civil War]], he fought for [[Oliver Cromwell]] from then until 1655. |
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He was appointed second keeper to the [[Bodleian Library]], but in 1659 his friendship with [[Henry Vane the Younger]] led to his being removed from this employment. His ''A Light Shining Out Of Darkness'' did not help, being seen as an attack on the Clergy. |
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He became a physician in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], and after [[English Restoration|the Restoration]] was confirmed in the [[Church of England]]. In 1616 was appointed [[His Majesty's Physician]] for [[Jamaica]]<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KAQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22henry+Stubbe%22+Glastonbury&source=web&ots=8vukDV1qz7&sig=U9xsA0w3ZxTpRtGndJj9MpVNDW0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA196,M1 ''The history and antiquities of Bath Abbey Church''], by John Britton, 1887</ref> . The Jamaican climate disagreeing with him, he returned to England in 1665. He developed medical practices in both [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and [[Warwick]]. |
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In 1673 he wrote against the '''Duke of York''' (later [[James II of England]]) and [[Mary of Modena]] in the Paris Gazette. He was arrested and threatened with hanging. It is probably about this time that he wrote ''An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, and a Vindication of him and his Religion from the Calumnies of the Christians.'' He was unable to publish this book, considered the first work in English sympathetic to [[Islamic]] [[Theology]], in which he tried to demonstrate the similarity between the beliefs of [[Islam]] and [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] [[Christianity]]. However, Stubbe can also be seen as part of a growing tradition at this time which expressed a dissatisfaction with the intellectual inconsistencies of [[trinitarianism]] and sought to discover the original unitarian roots of the Christian tradition in the middle east. |
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Following the restoration he also wrote polemical pieces against the [[Royal Society]] which have been interpreted as showing a change in his political and religious views. Recent scholarship however suggests that the main theme in his life is continuity and his attacks on the Royal Society are a part of his veiled attack on the clerical and monarchical powers, of which the Royal Society was seen to be supportive. |
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His diverse interests and sense of genuine intellectual breadth are revealed in his authorship of a book celebrating [[chocolate]], which he refers to as the Indian nectar, and in which he criticised those who refused it on puritanical grounds. He drowned in an accident in [[Bristol]] and was buried in Bath. |
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Stubbes was considered by [[Anthony Wood]] to be the most noted Latin and Greek scholar of his age, as well as a great mathematician and historian. |
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==Works== |
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*''Vindication of that Prudent and Honourable Knight Sir Henry Vane'' (1659) |
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*''A Light Shining Out Of Darkness'' (1659) |
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*''The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolate'' (1662) |
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*''An Epistolary Discourse Concerning Phlebotomy and The Lord Bacons Relation of the Sweating-Sickness Examined'' (1671) |
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*''A Justification of the Present War against the United Netherlands'' (1672) |
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*''An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism,and a Vindication of him and his Religion from the Calumnies of the Christians'' (1674?) |
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==References== |
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*{{cite book |
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| first = P.M. |
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| last = Holt |
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| year = 1972 |
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| title = A seventeenth-century defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632-76) and his book |
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| publisher = Dr Williams's Trust |
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| id = ISBN 0-85217-031-9}} |
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*{{cite book |
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| first = James R |
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| last = Jacob |
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| year = 2002 |
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| title = Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment |
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| publisher = Cambridge University Press |
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| id = ISBN 0-521-52016-9}} |
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{{reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/texts/letterS.html/ List of some of his works from Early English Books Online] |
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[[Category:1632 births]] |
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[[Category:1676 deaths]] |
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[[Category:People from Lincolnshire]] |
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[[Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford]] |
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[[Category:English doctors]] |
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[[Category:English writers]] |
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[[Category:Deaths by drowning]] |
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[[Category:Accidental human deaths in England]] |
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