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Roger Crab was an English herbal doctor, a vegan, a teetotaler, a pacifist, a haberdasher, a soldier, a writer, and a hermit. He was born in Buckinghamshire in 1621. In 1641, he stopped eating non-vegan food and also became voluntary celibate and a teetotaler.
During the English Civil War, Roger Crab joined the Parliamentary Army under Oliver Cromwell in 1642. Then he moved to Chesham and began working as a haberdasher. In 1652, he moved to Ickenham and lived as a hermit and a herbal doctor. Crab advised his patients to avoid meat and alcohol. He was a popular doctor among the village women. In 1657, he moved to Bethnal Green
Roger Crab was an English herbal doctor, a vegan, a teetotaler, a pacifist, a haberdasher, a soldier, a writer, and a hermit. He was born in Buckinghamshire in 1621. In 1641, he stopped eating non-vegan food and also became voluntary celibate and a teetotaler.
During the English Civil War, Roger Crab joined the Parliamentary Army under Oliver Cromwell in 1642. Then he moved to Chesham and began working as a haberdasher. In 1652, he moved to Ickenham and lived as a hermit and a herbal doctor. Crab advised his patients to avoid meat and alcohol. He was a popular doctor among the village women. In 1657, he moved to Bethnal Green and joined the Philadelphians there. On September 11, 1680, Roger Crab died at the age of 59.
Rober Crab was an anti-sabbatarian Christian. He promoted the ascetic lifestyle, veganism, teetotalism, pacifism, and opposed property, profit, universities, and churches. He wore homemade sackcloth clothes. He believed that eating non-vegan food is a sin against a body and a soul, and that there is a connection between meat-eating and aggression.
His tombstone has this epitaph:
"Tread gently, reader, near the dust
Committed to this tomb-stone's trust:
For while 'twas flesh, it held a guest
With universal love possest:
A soul that stemmed opinion's tide,
Did over sects in triumph ride;
Yet separate from the giddy crowd,
And paths tradition had allowed.
Through good and ill reports he past,
Oft censured, yet approved at last.
Wouldst thou his religion know?
In brief 'twas this: to all to do
Just as he would be done unto.
So in kind Nature's law he stood,
A temple, undefiled with blood,
A friend to everything that 's good.
The rest angels alone can fitly tell;
Haste then to them and him; and so farewell!"
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