A pamphlet, generally speaking, requires no journal review, even a very short one. When the piece in question, however, contains a manifesto of sorts and includes a series of general research directives (even if outlining the writer's future intentions only), it asks for general attention. Ian Green's 2006 lecture to The Friends of Dr. Williams's Library describes his current project – ‘attempting a broad survey of early modern preaching’ (p. 3) – and then usefully details the contours such an arduous and exacting task should take. Previous exhaustive surveys of Protestant print culture (1996) and English catechisms (2000) confirm Green's capacity (and relish) for just such an endeavour, and readers will nod in agreement with and recognition of his characteristic principles of textual research. In this case, these include paying more attention to lesser-known preachers; to wider social contexts for preaching; to manuscript sources, including notes and outlines; to particulars of occasion and exegesis; to the formats of sermon dissemination and collection altogether. By the time that Green concludes (p. 50) with a paean to Dr. Williams's Library and its chronically under-consulted holdings, not a single scholar, including those Green cites as having done inadequate justice to the richness and diversity of the early modern English sermon – hardly a surprise, given that some of their works are now two decades old – could possibly begrudge him the job.