Intelligencing

that sad intelligencing tyrant

Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!

Intelligencing for personal profit, albeit through the service of the crown, could call the agent's allegiance into question.

Playing off of Allen's account of intelligencing, I propose that another name for the kind of community that Marlowe stages is false brotherhood, especially since Barabas, Abigail, Ithamore, Bella Mira, and Pilia-Borza all end up engaging in the kinds of actions that Allen associates with intelligencing.

Unfortunately for Vindice, the object of his pandering is to be his own sister, Castiza (1.2.128), but the very fact that he is willing to play this game suggests a patent connection between morally dubious intelligencing and the business of acting.

For that reason Hartlib presents a faxcinating site of experiment: he straddles the international, intellectual 'intelligencing' characteristic of the republic of letters, and the more pragmatic intelligence gathering central to the formation of the English state. A large body of correspondence representative of this kind of political intelligencing within the Commonwealth and Protectorate are readily available within the English seventeenth-century StatePapers.

Considering intelligencing as a coherent group of practics furthering the advancement of learning, I will be suggesting that Ranelagh was much more than just another correspondent.

The crux is that 'intelligencing' does not need to include clandestine activities: intelligence in the early modern period is more about information that is in some way privileged, or special insight, rather than discrete items of secret knowledge.