The Public Debate of the Civil War in England

There were limits to how far this public debate reached down through the classes. The presence of libels, early pamphlets, trial reports and other separate materials could not be stopped spreading as characters like nehamiah wallington demonstrate. And low levels of literacy was not as great an obstacle as you might think. There is another int sting wrinkle, there were books created by the scandal, specifically about the overbury scandal.