John Harvard and his times . ^-ii!.:^i^^;. OLl ilOLSLb, ->Ul.;TH\ 42. ENVIRONMENT Puritan recreations. In the early years of theseventeenth century the printing-press enteredin good earnest on its since ceaseless career ofactivity, and one of the events of the week inthose days was the arrival of the pedler, orchapman, with his overflowing bundle ofballads, chapbooks, books of news, and con-troversial pamphlets. No one watched for hisappearance with more lively anticipationsthan Wallington, and as his own particularchapman no doubt soon got to know the tasteof this good custome
John Harvard and his times . ^-ii!.:^i^^;. OLl ilOLSLb, ->Ul.;TH\ 42. ENVIRONMENT Puritan recreations. In the early years of theseventeenth century the printing-press enteredin good earnest on its since ceaseless career ofactivity, and one of the events of the week inthose days was the arrival of the pedler, orchapman, with his overflowing bundle ofballads, chapbooks, books of news, and con-troversial pamphlets. No one watched for hisappearance with more lively anticipationsthan Wallington, and as his own particularchapman no doubt soon got to know the tasteof this good customer, we may be sure that healways took care to have a copious supply ofthe very latest productions in the shape ofPuritanical literature. Many of the littleworks which Wallington obtained in this waywere really w^eekly newspapers in pamphletform, in which the events of the day weregenerally recorded from the Puritan stand-point; others were of a distinctly controversialnature and were unsparing in their attackson the doings of Laud and his
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