A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Brethren Clerks

by Hannah Adams

*BRETHREN & CLERKS OF THE COMMON LIFE , a fraternity of the order of St. Augustine, who are commended for promoting the cause of religion and learning, about the time of the reformation.^[1]

Original footnotes

1. Examination of Barrow. Canne's Necessity of Separation, p. 153. Gifford's Plain Declaration, p. 1, 2. Also Neal's Puritans, p. 428