strongly preferred the 1656 edition of A Divine Looking Glass to Muggleton's revision of 1661 and also wrote an unpublished manuscript Upon New Thoughts circulated to Muggletonians which argues for a God in an infinite universe. The group survived into the twentieth century. The last Muggletonian, Philip Noakes of Matfield, Kent, died on 26 February 1979; the sect's records, which he had kept, were then transferred to the British Library. Other gifts have joined the archive, most notably from Eileen Muggleton of the commonplace book of John Dimock Aspland (1816–1877). The published works of the Muggletonians are still available from Gage Postal Books of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. There may be another archive still to be found. Mrs Louise Barnes of Buffalo, New York, wrote to London in 1936 about the US Muggletonian archive kept by her father, the late Alfred Hall. This collection was clearly treasured, mainly for family reasons. It may still exist. "In Edward Thompson's words, Muggletonianism was a 'highly intellectual anti-intellectualism', and as such remarkably well adapted for survival among the semi-educated, self-taught, self-confident London artisans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." See also Religion in the United Kingdom English Dissenters 17th century denominations in England Notes References Further reading F. Reid, "Isaac Frost's Two Systems of Astronomy (1846): Plebeian Resistance and Scriptural Astronomy", in The British Journal for the History of Science (2005), 38, pp. 161–177 E. P. Thompson, Witness Against the Beast William Lamont, Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History 1652–1979, Ashgate (reviewed by Philip Hoare in the Times Literary Supplement 17 August 2007, p. 30) External links Gage Postal Books website Muggletonian Documents A Transcendent Spiritual Treatise by John Reeve & Lodowick Muggleton at The Ex-Classics Web Site Christian denominations in the United Kingdom English Dissenters Christian eschatology Christian denominations founded in Great Britain Nontrinitarian denominations in the United Kingdom 1651 establishments in England 17th century in London Religious organizations established in 1651 Religious organisations disestablished in 1979