In anticipation of English prose after the Commonwealth, I had initially found the temptation to include Robert Hooke’s extraordinary Micrographia (1665) next in this sequence almost overwhelming.

Colleen O’Reilly: 1662 was the year in England in which the Prayer Book was restored to use, having been suppressed under the Commonwealth. When episcopacy was banned, the Church of England went into ...

Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men: We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have ...