Early Life
Little is known of Barebone's early life, writing in 2001 Nicholas Tyacke speculated that he was the son of John Barebone rector of Charwelton and Mary Roper of Daventry and that he probably had an older brother called Fear-God (who is known to have been a minor poet), but this can not confirmed because the parish Charwelton registers for that period no longer exist.
The first that is known about him is that he became a freeman of the Leathersellers Company in January 1623, having served an eight- or nine-year apprenticeship. He was elected a warden of the yeomanry of the leather-sellers in 1630, and a liveryman in 1634. In 1630 he married his wife Sarah, with whom he would have at least one son, Nicholas Barbon.
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