Lloyd E. Berry was editor of The English Works of Giles Fletcher, the Elder and of John Stubb’s ”Gaping Gull” with Letters and Other Relevant Documents; he also compiled A Bibliography of Studies in Metaphysical Poetry, 1939-1960. He was professor of English at the University of Illinois, USA.Robert O. Crummey is professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Davis. He is the author of Old Believers in a Changing World, The Old Believers and the World of the Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855 and Aristocrats and Servitors: The Boyer Elite in Russia, 1613-1689.