New Books
- John Bramhall - Defense of True Liberty; Bramhall, an Anglican divine, begins a correspondence of treatises with Thomas Hobbes
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - The World's Olio
- Thomas Fuller - The Church History of Britain
- John Heydon - Eugenius Theodidacticus
- William Prynne - A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny
- Sir William Sales - Theophania
- John Wallis - Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae, an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes
- Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, second edition
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