3 Lockridge and Morison agree; cf. Morison, Puritan Pronaos, 85; and Lockridge, Literacy in Colonial New England, 14.
4 Lockridge, Literacy in Colonial New England, chap. 1.
5 Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order, 74-75; see also Lawrence Stone, “Literacy and Education in England,” Past and Present 42 (1969), 100.
6 K. E. Wrightson, “The Puritan Reformation of Manners,” (thesis, Cambridge Univ., 1973), 121.