NATHANIEL WARD
\nɐθˈanjə͡l wˈɔːd], \nɐθˈanjəl wˈɔːd], \n_ɐ_θ_ˈa_n_j_əl w_ˈɔː_d]\
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An English-American lawyer, clergyman, and author; born at Haverhill, England, about 1578; died at Shenfield, Essex, about October, 1652. While a pastor in Massachusetts he wrote the "Body of Liberties", adopted December 1641, the first code of laws established in New England. His other writings are: "The Simple Cobler of Agawam" (1647); "A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army" (1647); "A Sermon Before Parliament" (1647); and "Mercurius Anti-Mechanicus; or, The Simple Cobler's Boy, with his Lap-full of Caveats" (1648).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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