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Biddle

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Bid·dle  (bdl), John 1615-1662.
English theologian and founder of English Unitarianism who was several times imprisoned for his rejection of Trinitarian doctrine.

Biddle [ˈbɪdəl]
n
(Biddle, John (1615-1662) M, English, RELIGION: theologian) John. 1615-62, English theologian; founder of Unitarianism in England


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At the return of peace, Astoria, with the adjacent country, reverted to the United States by the treaty of Ghent, on the principle of status ante bellum, and Captain Biddle was despatched in the sloop of war, Ontario, to take formal possession.
He had cheated old Wilkins out of his freehold by a trick fit for a pickpocket; he had driven old Mother Biddle to the workhouse; he had stretched the law against Long Adam, the poacher, till all the magistrates were ashamed of him.
As he reascended the Biddle Stairs, he heard what he decided at last must be a sort of echo, a sound of some one walking about on the gravel paths above.
 
 
 
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