Christopher Harvey (poet)

Christopher Harvey of Bunbury, Cheshire and his wife Ellen (Helen), he came from a Puritan background, his father's associates including William Hinde, Samuel Torshell and John Bruen.

[2][3] On 14 November 1639 Harvey was instituted to the vicarage of Clifton on Dunsmore, Warwickshire.

[2] In 1647 Harvey issued anonymously Schola Cordis, or the Heart of it Selfe gone away from God; brought back againe to him; and instructed by him.

A Treatise discovering the true Use of the Name by the Nature of Rebellion, 1661 (reissue Faction Supplanted: or a Caveat against the ecclesiastical and secular Rebels 1663); it was mostly written in 1642 and finished on 3 April 1645.

Anthony Wood attributed to Harvey a book called Conditions of Christianity.

[2][3] Harvey was a friend of Izaak Walton, and prefixed commendatory verses to the Compleat Angler, ed.