¹ The only error I have identified is the naming of the prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly as Thomas Twisse rather than William, p. 229 n 20, a minor lapse.

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⁶ McGiffert mentions the contraction of the journal only in the bibliography, without details, p. 227.

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