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- April 15 – The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing.[1]
- 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.[2]
- December (end) – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.[3]
- 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).
Kekewich, Margaret (1994). Princes and peoples : France and British Isles, 1620-1714 : an anthology of primary sources. Manchester New York: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University. p. 2. ISBN 9780719045738.
Cogley, Richard (1999). John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780674475373.
Baigrie, Brian (1996). Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780802074393.
Tom Cain, ed., The Poems of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard, and Westmorland Manuscripts, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.Page 27
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. ISBN 9780313308277.