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|unit_name = The Soldiers Catechism
|image = [[Image:New Model Army - Soldier's catechism.jpg|center|border|190px]]
|caption = ''The Souldiers Catechisme''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07Q6AQAAMAAJ&q=robert+ram&pg=PA15|title=The Souldiers Catechisms: Composed for the Parliaments Army, Consisting of Two Parts Wherein are Chiefly Taught: 1. the Justification, 2. the Qualifications of Our Souldiers. Written for the Incouragement and Instruction of All that Have Taken Up Armes in this Cause of God and His People, Especially the Common Souldiers|first=Robert|last=Ram|date=April 29, 1644|publisher=J. Wright|via=Google Books}}</ref>}}
'''Robert Ram''' (c.1595-1656) was an [[Anglican]] priest in the early seventeenth century. He was a younger son of [[Thomas Ram]]
Robert Ram went to [[Trinity College Dublin]]. He was awarded a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1611, [[Master of Arts]] in 1614 and became a [[Fellow]] in 1615. He was incorporated as [[Master of Arts]] by the [[University of Cambridge]] in 1615.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sjcarchives.org.uk/institutional/index.php/robert-ram-spalding-anthony-tuckney|title=Robert Ram (Spalding): Anthony Tuckney - St John's College Institutional Archives|website=www.sjcarchives.org.uk}}</ref>
He became [[Vicar]] of [[St Mary and St Nicolas, Spalding]] in 1626.<ref name="auto">{{cite book|author=Brassington, Case & Seal|title=The History of a Fenland Parish|edition=3rd|year=2004}}</ref>
During the [[English Civil War]] he was taken from his home by Royalists ("[[Cavalier]]s") and held hostage in [[Crowland]]. He was rescued by [[Roundhead|Parliamentarian]] regiments commanded by Sir Miles Hubbard, Sir Anthony Irby and [[Oliver Cromwell]],<ref name="auto"/>
In 1645 he was appointed Chaplain to Colonel Sir [[Edward Rossiter]]'s Lincolnshire Cavalry Regiment<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|author=Clark|title=Spalding, 1625-1660, A Fair Town in a World Turned Upside Down|edition=1st|year=2006}}</ref>
He was the author of The Soldiers’ Catechism<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07Q6AQAAMAAJ&q=robert+ram&pg=PA15|title=The Souldiers Catechisms: Composed for the Parliaments Army, Consisting of Two Parts Wherein are Chiefly Taught: 1. the Justification, 2. the Qualifications of Our Souldiers. Written for the Incouragement and Instruction of All that Have Taken Up Armes in this Cause of God and His People, Especially the Common Souldiers|first=Robert|last=Ram|date=April 29, 1644|publisher=J. Wright|via=Google Books}}</ref> which was issued to the [[New Model Army]], along with [[The Souldiers Pocket Bible]]
compiled by [[Edmund Calamy the Elder]].
John Turner wrote in 1684, in regards to Charles II, that the
He returned to his parish duties in May 1646,<ref name="auto1"/> and remained in [[Spalding, Lincolnshire|Spalding]] until his death in March 1656<ref name="auto"/>
==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{cite book|author=Begley|title=Cromwell's Soldier's Catechism|edition=1st|year=1900}}
* {{cite book|author=Gooch|title=History of Spalding|edition=1st|year=1940}}
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