Robert Pasfield

William Hinde, in his biography of John Bruen, tells of one of Bruen's servants, a man named Robert Pasfield. Pasfield was totally illiterate, unable to either read or write. Hinde says that Pasfield was "a man utterly unlearned being unable to read a sentence or write a syllable." But Pasfield was no ignorant man. According to Hinde, Pasfield "was so acquainted with the history of the Bible, and the sum and substance of every book and chapter, that hardly could any ask him where such a saying or sentence were, but he would with very little ado tell them in what book and chapter they might find it." (See Ryken, Wordly Saints, p. 140)