Hannah Allen (bookseller)

[2] He died in 1646, and Hannah took over Benjamin's bookselling business after his death; she would later marry her apprentice Livewell Chapman.

[3] In total, there are 54 literary works bearing Hannah's imprint,[2] but Bell estimates that the true number of her publications was somewhat higher.

[4] Bross describes Allen as a "radical sectarian";[5] Bell notes that the works on her booklist also tended towards millenarianism and the views of the Fifth Monarchists.

[6] Exceeding Riches concerned the prophetic vision of Sarah Wight, reported to have undergone such powerful religious experiences that she became paralysed.

[7] In the text, Allen is credited as a witness of Wight in her ecstatic state.