Komáromi Csipkés, a Hungarian Calvinist theologian, wrote a grammar in 1664 for students at the University of Debrecen who wanted to read English protestant texts in the original. A sizeable part of his book is devoted to pronunciation of then contemporary southern English, which is today referred to as Early Modern. Komáromi comments can only be called linguistic with certain reservations. He brings English pronunciation close to home by giving Hungarian (sometimes Latin) correspondences such as season having the vowel of Hungarian kéz 'hand'. However, a careful reading (and interpretation) of his comments adds new insight to our understanding of a number of contentious issues, such as (i) the Early Modern pronunciation of Middle English iː and uː, which seem to have been ɛj (night having the vowel+glide of fejsze ‘axe’) and ɔw (out, “pronounced as it is written”, Komáromi’s words), not əj and əw, as often assumed, (ii) the disputed existence of yː (fruit), jyː (use), etc. In addition to this, in the spirit of a (pre)modern linguist, Komáromi sets out to decom-pose sounds unfamiliar to him from Hungarian into ‘elements’ (as he does, for example, for dʒ in 'John', which he explains as a combination of Hungarian gy ɟ plus s ʃ). We look at his comments and try to assess their validity from the point of historical reconstructive linguistics.