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- Title
The Hacket Rebellion and Henry Arthington’s Manuscript Annotations to his Own Pamphlet.
- Authors
Saunders, Austen
- Abstract
Henry Arthington was a key participant in the Hacket rebellion, a radical Presbyterian disturbance in July 1591. While imprisoned after the uprising, he produced a pamphlet denouncing the rebellion, which was published as part of the Elizabethan government’s ongoing anti-Presbyterian propaganda campaign. A previously overlooked copy of this pamphlet, annotated by Arthington himself while he was in prison, is now in the library of St John’s College, Cambridge. It appears to form part of his campaign to secure his release. His annotations shed light on his understanding of the rebellion, provide evidence of an early modern author’s ability to use manuscript annotation and book-giving as a way of circulating a unique text (targeted at specific individuals), and also of the unusual process by which an imprisoned author participated in the printing of a piece of government propaganda. They also show the degree to which early modern annotators could exploit a range of genres, being a possibly unique example of an annotated book being used simultaneously as a form of petition, life writing, and prison writing.
- Subjects
PAMPHLETS; MANUSCRIPTS; NONBOOK materials; ARTHINGTON, Henry, fl. 1591-1607; AUTHORS
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2013, Vol 64, Issue 266, p594
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgt030