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26. For Ryves and Mercurius Rusticus, see above, pp. 282–4; [George Wharton], Englands Iliads in a nut-shell (London, 1645), Thomason date 24 July 1645; [Bruno Ryves], Micro-chronicon (London, 1647). Ryves’s text is much fuller, but shares the basic outline and principal landmarks with Wharton’s.
27. For an example of the genre see Anon., The Apprentices VVarning-piece (London, 1641); for examples of its political re-invention see, among many others, Thomas Morton, Englands warning-piece (London, 5 August 1642); [James Cranford], The teares of Ireland… As a warning piece to her Sister Nations (London, 1642); Anon., A warning-piece To all His maiesties subjects of England (reprinted in London, 1643), Thomason date 20 February 1643; Anon., An Alarme to England: or A Warning-Piece (London, 1647), Thomason date 8 April 1647; Alexander Mingzeis, Englands Caveat: or Warning-piece (London, 1647).
28. Sharon Achinstein, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (Princeton, 1994); Hughes, ‘Meanings of Religious Polemic’, pp. 228–9.
29. Quoted in Paul Christianson, ‘From Expectation to Militance: Reformers and Babylon in the First Two Years of the Long Parliament’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 34 (1973), 225–44, at p. 243. It was not published until 1644. For the European Reformation context see Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Bayle, rev. edn (Oxford, 2003), ch. 1.
30. William Prynne, A vindication of psalme 105.15 (London, 1642).
31. John Milton, Paradise Lost, book ii, lines 559–61, quoted from Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg (eds.), John Milton (Oxford, 1991), pp. 355–618, at p. 389.
32. See, among many examples, John Taylor, A Cluster of coxcombes (London, 13 July 1642); Anon., The Divisions Of the Church of England (London, 1642); Anon., A Discovery of 29. Sects (London, 1641); [Alexander Ross], Religions Lotterie or the Churches Amazement (London, 1642). The second is attributed to Taylor by Wing and EEBO, but Bernard Capp discounts Taylor’s authorship in his authoritative list of Taylor’s publications: The World of John Taylor the Water-Poet 1578–1653 (Oxford, 1994), p. 203.
33. Ephraim Pagitt, Heresiography (London, 1645). See, for comparison, the subtitle of Thomas Edwards, The First and Second Part of Gangraena: A Catologue and Discovery of many of the Errors, Heresies and Blasphemies and pernicious Practices of the Sectaries of this time (London, 1646).
34. For Benbrigge see above, pp. xxii-xxiii.
35. Clifford Geertz, ‘Common Sense as a Cultural System’, in Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York, 2000 edn), pp. 73–93, at p. 75.
36. Angela McShane Jones, ‘“Rime and Reason”: The Political World of the English Broadside Ballad, 1640–1689’, unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Warwick (2004), esp. intr., ch. 4.
37. Josiah Ricraft, The peculier characters Of the orientall languages (London, [1645]). On programmes of language reform both as a means of reducing public discussion to order and, more positively, to increase knowledge see Sharon Achinstein, ‘The Politics of Babel in the English Revolution’, reprinted in James Holstun (ed.), Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution (London, 1992), pp. 14–44.
38. For Macaria, see above, pp. 156–8, and Of Education, pp. 341–3 above.
39. The best introduction to his career is Charles Webster, ‘Introduction’, in Charles Webster (ed.), Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning (Cambridge, 1970), which also reprints a number of crucial texts. For the wider intellectual context the standard work is Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2002); See also Charles Webster, Utopian Planning and the Puritan Revolution: Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Hartlib and ‘Macaria’ (Oxford, 1979); G. H. Turnbull, Samuel Hartlib: A Sketch of His Life