Paul Hobson

Captain Paul Hobson (died 1666) was an antinomian Particular Baptist who served in the parliamentary army during the English Civil War.^[1]

He was one of the signatories to the Baptist Confession of 1644, who later adopted Fifth Monarchy ideas,^[2] and later arrested for his part in the Farnley Wood Plot.

References

• Greaves, Richard L. "Hobson, Paul". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37554. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

1. Richard L. Graves Saints and Rebels: Seven Nonconformists in Stuart England; Edmund Calamy, Richard Culmer, George Griffith, John Simpson, Paul Hobson, Henry Danvers, Francis Bampfield - Page 148
2. Louise Fargo Brown - 1913 "Paul Hobson was the champion of the Newcastle church, and that church had, less than a fortnight before the appearance of the address ... While Paul Hobson was the center of Baptist discontent in the north of England,"