But buried in the search engine dross, Rush found a few nuggets of fact. One of these was an encyclopedia entry that appeared again and again, endlessly recycled from one site to another with no citation of the original author.Johann Toller (????–1660), rose to prominence as a member of the Fifth Monarchy movement, a group of religious and political dissenters in seventeenth-century England with links to similar groups spread across Continental Europe. Little is known about his early life. Toller wrote several books and pamphlets criticising the post-revolutionary government of Oliver Cromwell for its failure to legislate for complete religious freedom. He was executed in 1660 after a failed attempt to assassinate Sir Gilbert Gerard, the former paymaster of the Parliamentary Army. Wherever Rush looked, that same bald summary stared back at him. Nobody bothered to list Toller’s several works, or to say anything further about how the man had lived and died.Switching to IMAGES, he found that a single picture predominated.
