Who am I?
I am Patrick Ludolph, currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am working on my dissertation, which will discuss the Gilbert Mabbott’s effect on the London news industry during the English Civil War.
Who is Gilbert Mabbott?
Gilbert Mabbott was a licenser of pamphlets and newsbooks from 1645 to 1649. He was also brother-in-law to Sir William Clarke and a client of John Rushworth. From 1647 to 1649, he was in the pay of the New Model Army, acting as their “agent” in London. As well, Mabbott has been accused of being the editor of the radical newsbook The Moderate, an accusation which I have come to believe.
Why am I publishing a blog?
Mainly, I am publishing this blog because of another blog on wordpress, Mercurius Politicus, which is dealing with similar matter. It seemed like a good idea to me. I thought it would be useful for others studying early modern print culture, and they could potentially give me feedback on my research.
In your studies, can you verify that Gilbert Mabbott was a sibling of Christopher Mabbot (Birth 26 Mar 1809 in AM, Nottinghamshire, England
Death 15 May 1886 in Arena, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States )
Thank you!
gina
Hi Gina,
I would say that, while they might very easily come from the same family, there is no way that they were siblings, since Gilbert lived and died in the 17th century.
Great discussion of Lake & Pincus!
Have you heard of the book by Montagu Slater-Englishmen with Swords. I am going to review it for my blog and would like any information you have on it
Regards
Keith
Hi Keith,
I have read it, but I couldn’t tell you much more about its background than what’s already on the dust jacket. It’s from the point of view of Gilbert Mabbott (which you obviously know because you commented here, but I thought I would say for others out there) and makes use of a number of original documents from the Civil War. However, Slater chose Mabbott because he knew absolutely nothing about him. He saw his name on a bunch of documents and decided to write from his viewpoint because Mabbott was a virtual nobody, a clean slate to write on. The irony is not lost on me. It’s been a while since I looked at it; I seem to recall that Slater was a little confused about some things, but I don’t remember what.
Come to think of it, I probably should have done a post on this, but I read it before I started blogging.