David E. UnderdownDavid E. Underdown was the Late George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, USA. He is the author of Prides Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution (1971), Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture inEngland, 1603-1660 (1985) and Fire From Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (1992). Read More Read Less