‘The merriest of all devils’

This from an article on a new blog in the name of one Jacob Bauthumley‘The merriest of all devils’The sexual radicalism of the Ranters certainly made an impressive contrast with the repressive society that created them. They saw Original Sin as being lifted, meaning that none of the repressive commandments laid down by the Church through the ages still applied. John Holland’s anti-Ranter pamphlet