But another door was opened for him, with an invitation to Rotterdam. There he prepared his Fresh Suit against Ceremonies—the book which made Richard Baxter a Nonconformist. It sums up the issues between the Puritan school and that of Richard Hooker, and was posthumously published. Having caught a cold from a flood which inundated his house, he died in November 1633, at the age of fifty-seven, apparently in needy circumstances. He left, by a second wife Joan Fletcher, two sons and a daughter, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637; the sons later returned to England; his daughter Ruth married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edmund Angier, and their son Samuel Angier later married in 1680 Hannah Oakes, the daughter of Urian Oakes. Influence His works, which the Biographia Britannica (1778) testifies were known over Europe, were collected at Amsterdam in five volumes. Only a small proportion was translated into English. Ames' thought was particularly influential in New England. Notes Attribution: Sources Keith L. Sprunger, The Learned Doctor William Ames (1972) See also: John Quick's manuscript Icones Sacrae Anglicanae, which gives the fisherman anecdote on the personal authority of one who was present; Life by Matthias Nethenus prefixed to collected edition of Latin works (5 vols, Amsterdam, 1658); Winwood's Memorials, vol. iii. pp. 346–347; Daniel Neal's Puritans, i. 532; Thomas Fuller's Cambridge (Christ's College); Hanbury's Hist. Memorials, i. 533; Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. vi., fourth series, 1863, pp. 576–577. Further reading Keith L. Sprunger, The Learned Doctor William Ames, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Jameela Lares, "William Ames," The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500–1660, Second Series, Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. 3–13. Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan, Oxford University Press 2008, ch. 1. External links Scholasticon page English Jacobean nonconforming clergy English philosophers 1576 births 1633 deaths English Calvinist and Reformed theologians Supralapsarians English evangelicals 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 16th-century philosophers 17th-century philosophers Participants in the Synod of Dort People of the Elizabethan era Clergy from Ipswich Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge 16th-century English theologians 17th-century English theologians People from Babergh District Systematic theologians