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Excerpt from Book I of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Edited by R. W. Church
Richard Hooker was born, according to Izaak Walton, at Heavitree near Exeter, about the year 1553. Mr. Keble found no record of him in the register books of Heavitree, nor in those of the Cathedral, or St. Mary Major in Exeter; and the best data for fixing the year of his birth seem to be supplied by the President's register, at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. From two entries in this it would appear that he was born about Easter-time, in what we should call that is, according to the old division of the year, in 1553, if he was born before the asth of March, - in 1554 if he was born on or after March 2 5.
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