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Smectymnuus| Pseudonym (formed from the first letters of their names) of the British clerics Stephen Marshall, Edmond Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow. Presbyterians, they were joint authors of an attack 1641 on episcopacy and the bishop of Norwich, Joseph Hall (1574–1656), which was answered by Hall and defended by the poet John Milton. |
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| Milton seems to have seen the play when he was at Cambridge, since he refers in An Apology for Smectymnuus as regretting having seen clowns such as "Trinculo's, Buffons, and Bawds; prostituting the shame of that minestery, which either they had, or were nigh having, to the eyes of Courtiers and Court-Ladies. 1670), and the peculiar Smectymnuus (1641), which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Encyclopaedia Britannica--but apparently this was the limit for acronyms in English until recently . His son published Smectymnuus-Mastix, or Short Animadiversions upon Smectymnuus (1651); Hamon L'Estrange, The Reign of King Charles (1655); a catalogue of the royal library (1659); (80) and, upon the Restoration, To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: The Most Humble and joyful Congratulatory Address of Divers. |
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