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SidSpenians,

In the 1640s there was a small pamphlet war about Prayer Book services, in which the BCP's defender, one Giles Calfine, responding to a Puritan attacker, used the pseudonym "Drupheyra Thexylvenio". If anyone has any ideas to share about the provenance and/or decoding of this peculiar name, I should be most grateful.

With thanks,
Roger Kuin

apologies for cross-posting