ABSTRACT
Legacy writers address a new set of concerns, too, for they are deeply invested in loyalty, obedience, and toleration. An active player in civil war conspiracy, Lady Anne Halkett is thoroughly dedicated to episcopacy and monarchy, but her experience with religious and political divisiveness leads her to prize obedience and religious toleration. An accomplished and versatile poet, Lady Anne Southwell penned everything from witty metaphysical lyrics to devotional poetry to a defense of poetry. The political and religious differences between Lucy Hutchinson and royalist legacy writers are legion, but she shares her counterparts' concern for the stability of England, their abhorrence of sects, and their passionate investment in religious tolerance. During the Interregnum, Oliver Cromwell's relative religious tolerance allowed for individual freedom of worship and, in consequence, sects multiplied. Hutchinson's political allegiances are clearly set forth in Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, a firsthand account of the civil wars and biographical paean to her husband.
