01985nam 2200385 n 450 99639324840331620200824121844.0(CKB)4940000000112453(EEBO)2240940510(UnM)99872090e(UnM)99872090(EXLCZ)99494000000011245319821109d1655 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age[electronic resource] Being a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living neer Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange reserved and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh, fish, or living creature, or to drinke any wine, ale, or beere. He can live with three farthings a week. His constant food is roots and hearbs, as cabbage, turneps, carrets, dock-leaves, and grasse; also bread and bran, without butter or cheese: his cloathing is sack-cloath. He left the Army, and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture, Mark. 10. 21. Jer. 35London, Printed, and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley, and at the Exchange1655[8], 15, [1] p. port. (woodcut)The last leaf bears verse.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 23 1654"; the final 5 in imprint date crossed out.Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018VegetarianismEarly works to 1800VegetariansEnglandEarly works to 1800VegetarianismVegetariansCrab Roger1621?-1680.1009918Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996393248403316The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age2350766UNISA