The Whole Duty of Man Laid Down in a Plain and Familiar Way for the Use of All but Especially the Meanest Reader with Private Devotions for Several Occasions. An English high-church 'Protestant' devotional work, first published anonymously in 1658, with an introduction by Henry Hammond (1605-1660). It was both popular and influential for two centuries within the Anglican tradition that it helped to define. Most likely written by Richard Allestree (1621/22 1681), Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665.
