MUGGLETONIANISM
MUGGLETONIANISM
 Lodowicke (or Lodowick) Muggleton (1609–98) and his cousin John Reeve (1608–58) were the founders of the Muggletonians, a small Christian sect that denied the doctrine of the Trinity, believed that God would no longer interfere in human affairs after the revelation of their founders, and condemned prayer and preaching. In
addition to these more prosaic theological doctrines, Reeve also held that
the Sun went around the earth and that the sphere of the heavens was not above
six miles high from the surface of the earth
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Muggleton
& the Witch
Muggleton, Lodowick. A true interpretation of the Witch of Endor, spoken of in I Sam. XXVIII. begin. at the 11th verse...the second edition. London: Pr. by subscription, 1724. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [4], 50, 20 pp.
Click the image to the left for an enlargement. • ESTC N27760. Contemporary-style full modern calf, covers framed and panelled in gilt with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral devices in compartments; marbled endpapers. Title-page with outer margin repaired at fore-edge. Pages age-toned, with minor foxing observable primarily in margins; first few leaves with edge nicks. One pencilled shouldernote, two pencilled decorative emphasis marks. A handsome copy, in all.
The
Prophet
Defends
HimselfMuggleton,
Lodowick. [drop-title] The prophet Muggleton’s epistle to the believers
of the commission, touching the rebellion occasioned by the nine assertions. [London?,
ca. 1690]. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). A–B4 χ1 C2;
22 pp. 
• ESTC R214286; Wing (rev.) M3040; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 313. On Muggleton, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67; and Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948. Recent marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Light waterstaining along the top edge, light brown-spotting, and tissue paper repairs along gutter of first and last leaves: none of this obscuring print.
Muggleton
vs. the Quaker
Muggleton,
Lodowick. An answer to Isaac Pennington [sic], Esq; his book intituled,
Observations on some passages of Lodowick Muggleton’s interpretation of
the 11th chapter of the Revelations.... London: Pr. by subscription, 1719. 4to
(21.1 cm, 8.25"). [2] ff., 24 pp.
• Here Muggleton attempts to defend himself against the
Observations of Isaac Penington the younger (1616–79), in which
Penington criticizes Muggleton’s interpretation of the passage in Revelation
upon which Muggleton and Reeve based their legitimacy as prophets.
The title of this second edition (first edition, 1662) is within a simple border of type ornaments, and the text has two typographical headpieces and a xylographic tailpiece.
• ESTC T93652; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 311–12. On Muggleton and the Muggletonians, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67; and Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948. On Penington, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLIV, 297–300. Recent marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Spotting, staining, and occasional tears in the margins (repaired with tissue paper) with no loss of text. Pencilled marginalia.
Muggleton
onChrist’s
BaptismMuggleton,
Lodowick. [drop-title] Lodowick Muggleton’s Letter to Robert Peirce,
concerning the Holy Ghost. [London, 1719]. 4to (21.1 cm, 8.25"). 8 pp. 
• Not in ESTC; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 311. On Muggleton, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67; and on the movement, see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948. Recent marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Browned with darker spotting. Chipping in the margins repaired with tissue paper. Pencilled marginalia including a nota hand on p. 3.
How God SufferedReeve, John, & Lodowick Muggleton. [drop-title] An epistle of the prophet Reeve. Written in the year, 1656. [London, 1670?]. 4to (21.1 cm, 8.25"). A4 (A4 lacking); 8 pp. (pp. 7–8 lacking, but supplied in early in manuscript). • Wing (rev.) R677; ESTC T229795 & R223718; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 311. On Reeve, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLVII, 408–409. On Muggleton, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67. On the Muggletonians, see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948. Recent marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Faint library rubber-stamp on recto of next-to-last leaf. Browned with darker spotting; chipping in the margins repaired with tissue paper. Pp. 7–8 lacking, text thereof supplied in manuscript. Underlining in pencil.
Two
Witnesses . . . Reeve,
John, & Lodowick Muggleton. Remonstrance from the eternal God: declaring
several spiritual transactions unto the parliament, and commonwealth of England,
unto...the Lord General Cromwell, the council of state, and the council of war....
[London]: Reprinted, 1719. 4to (21.1 cm, 8.25"). 24 pp.
• ESTC T110020; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 303. On Reeve, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLVII, 408–409. On Muggleton, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67. On the Muggletonians, see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948. Recent marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Lightly browned with darker spotting and staining.
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