ABSTRACT
John Pordage was buried in St Andrews, Holbom on II December 1681, see ONB s.n. His will dated 28 November 1681 and proved 17 January 1682, was witnessed by Jane Leade, PRO, PROB 11/369, fols 59r-59v. Jane Leade, 'LebenslaufT der Autorin', in Sechs Unschatzbare Mystiche Tractlein (Amsterdam, 1696), p. 422-43. Mercers' Company Archives, Acts of Court 1687-93, fo\' I 62v, 18 March 1692. I am grateful to Dr Mark Jenner who provided the transcript. Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Raw\., 0833, fols 132r, and 167r; Christopher Walton, Notes and Materials for an Adequate Biography of the Celebrated and Divine
Theosopher William Law (London, 1854), pp. 22fr.27. Mercers' Company Archives, fol. 101 r, 24 September 1703. Jane was paid the pension from the Mercers' Company until September 1703. Ibid, fol. 83r, 12 February 1703. See Walton, Notes and Materials, p. 509. Thune, Behmenists and Philadelphians, p. 86. Thune, Behmenists and the Philadelphians, p. 82 quoting, Apparatus ad Historiam Ecclesiasticam Novam. Facsimilia Collecta Opera Ernisti Salomonis Cypriani (Coburg, 1711), p. 16. Johann Dittmar, the Philadelphian missionary, handed over Jane's letters and documents about the Philadelphian Society to fellow Philadelphian, Ernst Salomon Cyprian.
