Hugh Peters

S. Spoelstra on 6 Sep 2003   Link to this

See http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/regici...

Glyn on 8 Mar 2005   Link to this

Sjoerd's link may now be broken, so here is the biography from that site:

Hugh Peters, Preacher, 1598-1660
Born in Cornwall, educated at Cambridge, Peters became a devout Puritan around 1620 which brought him into conflict with the Anglican church authorities. In 1626, Peters moved to the Netherlands and became a pastor at Rotterdam. Even here, pressure was put upon him to conform to Anglican doctrine. Finally, in 1635 he left for New England. Related by marriage to John Winthrop, Peters became a minister at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1636.

On the outbreak of the First Civil War in 1642, he returned to England. He became a chaplain in the Parliamentary armies and was a prolific writer of accounts of the actions he saw. Peters was a strong Independent whose ferocious preaching drew many recruits to the Parliamentarian cause. He was chaplain to the Council of State from 1650 and was with Cromwell at the battle of Worcester. Although he played no direct part in the trial and execution of the King, Peters' vehement support for the Regicides resulted in his arrest at the Restoration. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross in October 1660.

JWB on 8 Mar 2005   Link to this

His portrait here: http://www.winthropsociety.org/home.php

JWB on 9 Mar 2005   Link to this

Cousin Hugh "Blood, Guts and Haircut"by Donna Trefry
http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/issue5/donna.htm

vicenzo on 10 Mar 2005   Link to this

Hugh Peters received two pounds per annum for ever for his part in the Interregnum:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?com...

JWB on 4 Apr 2006   Link to this

Ballad: A Proper New Ballad On The Old Parliament; Or, The Second
Part Of Knave Out Of Doors

"Come here, then, honest Peters, (96) say grace for the second
course,
So long as these your betters must patience have upon force,
Long time he kept a great noise with God and the Good old Cause,
But if God own such as these, then where's the Devil's fees?
Sing hi ho, Hugo, I hear thou art not dead;
Where now to the Devil will you go, your patrons being fled?
Sing hi ho, my honey, my heart shall never rue,
Four-and-twenty now for a penny, and into the bargain Hugh"

Cavalier Songs & Ballads
http://bralyn.net/etext/literature/charles.mack...

Terry F on 22 May 2007   Link to this

Hugh Peters [or Peter] (June, 1598 - October 16, 1660), English, a preacher, was the son of Thomas Dyckwoode, alias Peters, descended from a family which had left the Netherlands to escape religious persecution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Peters