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A scholarly edition of a set of manuscripts which reveal the political and ecclesiastical views of the Puritans in the period between their official suppression by the crown in 1592 and their sudden resurgence around the time of the English Civil Wars.
List of contents
- Introduction
- I. I. Puritanism and revolution
- II. Henry Jacob and puritan 'antipuritanism'
- III. The Hampton Court Conference and necessity of independence
- IV. The freedom of independence
- V. The freedom of consent
- VI. The freedom of association
- VII. Royal supremacy and religious toleration
- VIII. The reception of Jacob's independence in the English Revolution
- Reader's guide
- I. Texts
- II. Abbreviations
- III. Manuscripts
- IV. Editorial Key
- V. Marginal Notes
- VI. Footnotes
- VII. Transcription
- Principal events in Henry Jacob's Life
- Table of contents for 'First Examination'
- Argument sequence
- The First Examination
- The Defence
- The Second Examination
- General index
- Scripture index
About the author
Polly Ha is a Reader in History at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is Director of The History of Independence Project and formerly taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Southern California.
Jonathan D. Moore holds a PhD in historical theology and ecclesiastical history from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia.
Edda Frankot is currently an editorial research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, where she is editing a digital transcription of the medieval Aberdeen burgh records. She is also Associate Editor of The 1641 Depositions and was formerly a lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Summary
A scholarly edition of a set of manuscripts which reveal the political and ecclesiastical views of the Puritans in the period between their official suppression by the crown in 1592 and their sudden resurgence around the time of the English Civil Wars.
Additional text
The texts themselves are well presented and thoroughly annotated ... In addition to commenting on the condition and layout of the manuscripts themselves, the editors' annotations de?ne archaic terms, provide references to sources mentioned in the text, explain obscure refer-ences and, in the main, help to make the dif?cult source material as readable and accessible as possible.
