Note 584 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

[Ward is better known, however, by his Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, which passed through four editions in London in 1647,—a rarity now worth six or seven pounds; Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 624; O’Callaghan Catalogue, 2,351; Menzies Catalogue, no. 2,038, etc. It was not reprinted in Boston till 1713, and again, edited by David Pulsifer, in 1843. Mr. John Ward Dean published a good memoir of Ward in 1868. The book in question is no further historical than that it illustrates the length to which good people could go in vindication of intolerance, in days when Antinomianism and other aggressive views were troubling many.—Ed.]