Sir Henry Danvers This is Me

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1. 1. Voice of the Moors Issue 62

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   Published on: 1/1/2000   Last Visited: 6/26/2006

   Sir Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby
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   SIR HENRY DANVERS, FIRST EARL OF DANBY
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   Danvers inherits Danby
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   The Danvers had three sons, Charles, Henry and John, and a daughter.
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   Elizabeth Danvers had settled the Danby estate on her eldest son Charles, or in default to Henry, and then to John.
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   As Charles was executed for his part in the Essex Rebellion during his mother's lifetime, the Danby estate passed to the second son, Henry.
   
   Henry Danvers Henry was born in 1573. As a young man he was for a time page to Sir Philip Sydney. He was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and pursued a distinguished career in both the army and the navy. He was knighted at Rouen, when he was just 18, by Robert Devereaux, Second Earl of Essex, and again knighted later by Henry IV of France. He was described by the Admiral the Earl of Nottingham as one of the best captains in his fleet. His distinguished service abroad helped to earn a pardon, from Elizabeth I, for himself and his older brother, both of whom were implicated in a feuding families murder. The pardon was granted in 1598, allowing their return to England.
   
   Royal favour James I created Sir Henry Danvers Baron Danvers of Dauntsey in 1603 in recognition of his valiant service at Kinsale. This effectively restored him as heir to his father. In 1626, Henry was created the first Earl of Danby by Charles I.
   
   Generous benefactor Sir Henry Danvers must have been immensely wealthy, for in 1621 he gave the sum of £5,000 (worth about £5M today!) to the University of Oxford to set up a Physic Garden for the use of the University and the People.
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   Sir Henry Danvers lived until he was seventy, and amassed many important titles during his long life. These included Lord President of Munster, Life Governor of Jersey, Member of the Privy Council, Knight of the Garter, Councillor of Wales, Governor of Armagh, Keeper of Wychford Forest, Governor of Pickering Castle and Keeper of St. James's Palace.
   
   Earldom died with him Sir Henry never married, and so on his death the Barony of Danvers and the Earldom of Danby became extinct.

2. 2. a history of baptists-chapter 17

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   Published on: 12/1/2000   Last Visited: 11/1/2003

   Henry D'Anvers was a man of great celebrity among the Baptists. He was born about the year 1608. He was a colonel in the Parliamentary army and governor of Strafford. While governor he embraced Baptist principles and was baptized probably by Henry Haggar. He wrote a book on baptism, in which he greatly stirred up the Pedobaptists. It is a vigorous defense of believers' baptism by dipping. He traces the history of the Baptists century by century back to the apostles. After referring to the existence of Baptists in England for long periods, he says:
   
   In the 16th year of King James, 1618, That excellent Dutch Piece, called A very plain and well-grounded Treatise concerning Baptism, that with so much authority both from Scripture and Antiquity, proves the baptizing of Believers, and disproves that of Infants, was printed in English.
   
   Since when (especially in the last 30 or 40 years) many have been the Conferences that have past, and many the Treatises that have been written Pro and Con upon that subject, and many have been the Sufferings both in old and new England, that people of that persuasion have under gone, whereby much Light hath broken forth therein, that not only very many Learned men have been convinced thereof, but very many Congregations of Baptists have been, and are daily gathered in that good old way of the Lord, that hath so long lain under so much obliquy and reproach, and been buried under so much Antichristian rubbish in these Nations (D'Anvers, A Treatise of Baptism, 308. London, 1674, second edition).
   
   He further says
   
   By all which you see by plentiful Evidence, that Christ hath not been without his Witnesses in every Age, not only to defend and assert the true, but to impugn, and to reject (yea, even to Death itself) the false Baptism.

3. 3. DID THEY DIP? by John T. Christian

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   Henry D'Anvers was one of the most influential and best informed Baptists of the seventeenth century. He was a distinguished colonel in the Parliamentary army and Governor of Stafford. He wrote the most powerful book of the century on baptism. He makes the most positive claims of the long continuance of Baptists in England, and that the Baptists had continued in "the good old way." I quote two paragraphs:
   
   "In the sixteenth year of King James, 1618, that excellent Dutch piece, called A very plain and well grounded Treatise concerning Baptism, that with so much authority both from Scripture and Antiquity, proves the baptizing of Believers and disproves that of Infants, was printed in English.
   
   "Since when (especially in the last thirty or forty years) many have been the conferencesthat have past, and many the Treatises that have been written pro and con upon the subject, and many have been the sufferings both in old and new England, that people of that perswasion have undergone, whereby such light hath broken forth therein that not only very many learned men have been convinced thereof, but very many congregations of Baptists have been, and are daily gathered in that good old way of the Lord that hath so long lain under so much obloquy and reproach, and been buried under so much Antichristian rubbish in these nations." (A Treatise on Baptism, p. 308.