Dudley Fenner was a Cambridge-educated Puritan divine known for his vocal disagreement with the Anglican Church and its policies. He wrote The Artes Of Logike And Rethorike in 1584, and though Roland MacIlmaine's The Logike of the Moste Excellent Philosopher P. Ramus, Martyr (1574) precedes it by ten years, Fenner's work distinguishes itself as the first combined English translation and adaptation of both the logic of Pierre de La Ramée (known as Petrus Ramus) and the rhetoric of Omer Talon. Fenner's integrated treatment of both logic and rhetoric was the first Ramistic effort in England to compete against the earlier integrated Ciceronian treatment of logic and rhetoric in Thomas Wilson's The Rule of Reason (1551) and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553). The work has received little scholarly attention, even though it appeared in seven editions over almost one hundred years (four times anonymously in 1584, once in 1588 with attribution to Fenner...