The Early English Dissenters (1550–1641)
In the Light of Recent Research

Table of Contents

1. Historical data relative to the English Covenenticlers at Bocking and Faversham in 1550 and 1551
2. Information concerning the life and character of Robert Cooche
3. Documents pertaining to the Puritan Plumbers' Hall congregation and to the Separatist 'Priuye Churche' of Richard Fitz, which 'seceded' from it
4. Miscellaneous documents relating to the early Barrowists
5. Early manuscript information concerning the Marprelate Press and the activities of some of the early Puritans
6. Some of the early Barrowist depositions
7. Documents other than depositions relating to John Penry
8. Documents relating to Henry Barrowe
9. Three early Barrowist petitions
10. Hitherto unnoticed testimony confirming Robert Browne's opinion of the Reformation in Scotland as published in Richard Bancroft's sermon preached at Paul's Cross: together with some of the grounds on which Archbishop Whitgift recommended Bancroft's appointment as Bishop of London
11. The names of various persons who had been members of Francis Johnson's congregation before 1613, including the names of some who had withdrawn from it or been excommunicated, and of others who had become Wanderers
12. Two documents relating to the controversy between the Barrowists and Thomas Drakes
13. Papers of Henry Jacob's written during the years 1603–5
14. An unnoticed letter of Thomas Helwys's
15. Papers relating to William Sayer
16. Documents relating to the history of the earliest English Anabaptist congregations
17. Documents chiefly relating to the early Brownist (Barrowist) and Independent congregations on the continent
18. Selected documents from the Gould manuscript illustrative of the history of Separatist and Independent congregations in England before 1642
19. The names, trades, and poor estate of all the Separatists living in Great Yarmouth about July 17, 1630
20. Reports relating to the appearance of certain separatists before the Court of High Commission between April 19 and June 21, 1632
21. Notice of a Separatist conventicle taken at a house in 'Rederiffe' in December, 1638
22. Documents relating to the prison life and death of the Separatist, Samuel Eaton
23. A broadside, which mentions the excommunication of Samuel How, and the place and date of his burial in 1640
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