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Excerpt from The Church and the Puritans: 1570 1660 Among the original authorities upon whom I have mainly relied may be mentioned, besides the State Papers, Cardwell, Strype, the Zurich Letters, Laud's Diary, Hooker, Heylin, Prynne, May, Clarendon, Baillie, Rushworth, and Cromwell; while among recent his torians I should like to express my great indebtedness to Dr. Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, Mr. Perry's History of the Church of England, Dr'. Stoughton's History of Religion in England, Mr. Simpson's Life of Ca/mpion, and Mr. Barclay's interesting sketch of the Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth. For the reigns of James I. And Charles I. The assistance of Mr. Gardiner's History of England from the Accession of James I. Has been simply invaluable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dr Foster traces the eventful history of the Church of England from shortly after its establishment in Elizabeth I's reign down to 1640, when it was on the verge of destruction. As well as analysing its principal features he considers the conflicting interpretations that this most controversial of periods has stimulated. He also provides a detailed chronological chart to help students with alternative readings of events and to prompt thoughts about how `facts shift according to different perspectives'.