Cary, Mary (c. 1621–after 1653)
Cary, Mary (c. 1621–after 1653)
British religious writer. Name variations: (pseudonym) Mary Rande. Born c. 1621; died after 1653.
Brought up Presbyterian but joined millenarian Fifth Monarchist sect; called for equality for women, concern for the poor, and church reform; wrote A Word in Season to the Kingdom of England (1647), The Resurrection of the Witness; and England's Fall from The Mystical Babylon—Rome (1648), The Little Horn's Doom and Downfall (1651), A New and More Exact Mappe or Description of New Jerusalem's Glory, When Jesus Christ and His Saints with Him Shall Reign on Earth a Thousand Years, and Possess all Kingdoms (1651), and Twelve New Proposals to the Supreme Governours of the Three Nations now assembled at Westminster (1653).
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