NICHOLAS FERRAR OF LITTLE GIDDINGST Laurence Tract No. 10The English Church was greatly impoverished in the 1530s by the destruction of the monasteries and convents of England by King Henry VIII, and it was not until the nineteenth century that various communities were again founded and attracted vocations to the religious life. However in the 1630s Nicholas Ferrar, an English courtier, businessman, deacon and man of prayer, founded a community in...