Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — The Barebone Family. [ARTICLE]

The Barebone Family.

The celebrated name of Praise God Barebone was borne by a member of the Cromwell parliament called together after the dissolution of the Long parliament in 1653. The royalists called the assembly “Barahones’ parliament.” At the time when General Monk was in London Barebone headed the mob that presented a petition to parliament against the recall of Charles II:-*Of the Barebone family there were three brothers, each of whom had a sentence for a name—Praise God Barebone, Christ-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone.