Smectymnuus

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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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