Index

to

The life and times of Martin Blake, B.D. (1593-1673)

by

John Frederick Chanter

London, John Lane Bodley Head (1910), xiii, 180 pp.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Life of Martin Blake B.D. is perhaps similar to that of many a divine of his period who played a prominent part on one side or the other in the great conflict between Catholicism and Puritanism that raged during the whole of the 17th century. Biographies of this sort have been written mostly by strong partisans of one view or the other, who perceived only the rights of their own side. Martin Blake's biography, while perhaps specially interesting to Devonshire readers, as a link that binds together the two principal maritime towns of North and South Devon (Barnstaple and Plymouth), has a wider interest as typical of one of the moderate Churchmen of the time, of whom it would be difficult to say to which party they belonged. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the Princeton University Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Contents, pp. ix-xi

Illustrations listed, p. xiii

General Index at p. 173