- John Cruso
John Cruso (~1595–1655) was a writer on military matters before the
English Civil War , and a supporter of the Parliamentary cause during the war.Ole Peter Grell, ‘Cruso, John (fl. 1595–1655)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6852, accessed 15 Feb 2008] . Cites:
*GL, MS 7397/7
*John Cruso's commonplace book, St John Cam., MS 548 (U.26)
*J. H. Hessels, ed., Ecclesiae Londino-Batavae archivum, 1–2 (1887–9)
*J. J. van Toorenenbergen, ed., Acten van de colloquia der Nederlandsche gemeenten in England, 1575–1609 (1872)
*J. J. van Toorenenbergen, ed., Uitreigser uit de volgenbe colloquia, 1627–1706 (1872)
*The visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635, made by Sir Henry St George, 1, ed. J. J. Howard and J. L. Chester, Harleian Society, 15 (1880)
* W. J. C. Moens, The Walloons and their church at Norwich: their history and registers, 1565–1832, Huguenot Society of London, 1 (1887–8)
*O. P. Grell, Dutch Calvinists in early Stuart London: the Dutch church in Austin Friars, 1603–1642 (1989)
*O. P. Grell, Calvinist exiles in Tudor and Stuart England (1996)
* E. A. Kent, ‘Notes on the Blackfriars Hall or Dutch church, Norwich’, Norfolk Archaeology, 22 (1924–6), 86–108
* W. Woods, ‘Poetry of Dutch refugees in Norwich’, Dutch crossing (1979), 71–3
* J. C. Arens, ‘Nederlandse Gedichten van Jan Cruso uit Norwich’, Spiegel der Letteren (1964–5), 132–40
* A. H. Nelson, ed., Cambridge, 2 (1989), 895–6]Many of his works were as editor and a translator of continental works and Ole Peter Grell says "Cruso's military works were significant only in that they were the first to make the new continental, primarily Dutch, military literature available to an English-speaking audience."
Bibliography
* "Militarie Instructions for the Cavallrie (1632)"
* "The Complete Captain and A Treatise of Modern War"Barbara Donagan, "Halcyon days and the literature of war: England's military education before 1642" Past & Present, May, 1995. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2279/is_n147/ai_18253699/pg_14 Page 14] ]
* "A Short Method for the Easie Resolving of any Militarie Question"
* "The Art of Warre" (Cambridge 1639)
* "A Short Method"—the second part of "The Art of Warre",(1639)References and notes
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