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Hannibal Gamon
A Puritan preacher from early 17th-century England, he is remembered for sermons that turn everyday grief, justice, and devotion into vivid moral writing. His surviving works offer a small but revealing glimpse of religious life in Stuart England.
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The Praise of a Godly Woman
by Hannibal Gamon
About the author
Born in London around 1582, Hannibal Gamon was an English Puritan clergyman and religious writer. He studied at Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1603 and M.A. in 1607, and later served as a minister in Cornwall. Sources consistently describe him as a preacher whose published work centered on sermons rather than broader literary output.
Gamon is best known today for a handful of printed sermons, including The Praise of a Godly Woman, a funeral sermon that remained visible enough to be preserved and later digitized. His writing reflects the concerns of Puritan ministry in the period: moral discipline, godly conduct, suffering, and perseverance.
Although not a major literary celebrity, he has lasting historical interest as one of the many lesser-known voices who shaped English devotional reading in the early 1600s. Reliable biographical details are fairly sparse, but the record points to a life spent in preaching, pastoral work, and religious publication.