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Smectymnuus

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | © The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Smectymnuus, the name under which five Presbyterian divines, Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow, published a pamphlet in 1641 attacking episcopacy and Bishop J. Hall. It was answered by Hall, and defended by Milton in his Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence against Smectymnuus (1641) and his An Apology against a Pamphlet… against Smectymnuus (1642). From ‘Smectymnuus’ is derived ‘Legion Smec’ in Hudibras (ii. ii), signifying the Presbyterians:New modell'd the army and cashier'd
All that to Legion Smec adher'd.

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