November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.
December (end) – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.[2]
With the London theatres closed by the Puritan regime, playwriting activity shifts to closet drama. The publication of an anonymous satire against Archbishop William Laud, titled Canterbury His Change of Diet, is one mark of the shift.
The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton on religious tolerance in a Calvinist context. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652).
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^Cogley, Richard (1999). John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 271. ISBN9780674475373.
^Baigrie, Brian (1996). Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN9780802074393.
^The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc. Scientific American Compiling Dpt. 1905. p. 129.
^John Evelyn (2000). The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1649. Clarendon Press. p. 379.
^Baker, Christopher (2002). Absolutism and the scientific revolution, 1600-1720 : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 313. ISBN9780313308277.