Jacob Bauthumley or Bottomley[1] (1613–1692) was an English radical religious writer, usually identified as a central figure among the Ranters.
After the Restoration of 1660, he took up a job as a librarian in Leicester, where he produced a book of extracts from John Foxe, published in 1676.
His family had earlier suffered ostracism, for permitting sermons by Jeremiah Burroughes to be said in their house;[6] he was a shoemaker.
[8] He considered that the real Devil lay in human nature,[9] while God dwells in the flesh of man.
[10] Historian E. P. Thompson calls his views 'quasi-pantheistic' in their re-definition of God and Christ, and quotes A. L. Morton to the effect that this is the central Ranter doctrine.