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Order of Contents
The Early Writers
Documents
Histories
English Presbyterianism
Theology of the Anglican Church
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On the Definition of a ‘Puritan’
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The Early Writers
“The early writers are still important, especially for their documents.” – Owen Chadwick
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Fuller, Thomas – The Church History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until 1648, vol. 1, 2, 3 1868
Fox, John – The Acts and Monuments, Complete Edition, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 1837 with a preliminary dissertation by George Townsend
Dixon, Richard Watson – A History of the Church of England, vol. 1 (1529-1537), 2 (1538-1548), 3 (1549-1553), 4 (1553-1558), 5 (1558-1563), 6 (1564-1570) 1887-1902 The history runs from 1529-1570
Dixon was strongly Anglican.
Burnet, Gilbert – The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 1839
Strype, John
Ecclesiastical Memorials Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of it, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary I: with large appendixes, containing original papers, records, etc., vol. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 1822
Cardwell, Edward
Documentary Annals of the Reformed Church of England, being a Collection of Injunctions, Declarations, Orders, Articles of Inquiry, etc., from the year 1546 to 1716, with notes Historical and Explanatory, vol. 1, 2 1844
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Documents
Makower, F. – The Constitutional History and Constitution of the Church of England 1895 560 pp.
“Impossible to read, but a mine of information.” – Owen Chadwick
Heppe, Heinrich – The Reformers of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century: Their Intercourse and Correspondence. A Historical Sketch and Original Documents Buy 1859 225 pp. with an Appendix containing twelve primary source letters in Latin
Elton, G.R. – The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary Buy 1960 528 pp.
Tanner, J.R. – Tudor Constitutional Documents: AD 1485-1603, with a Historical Commentary 1922 665 pp.
Gee, Henry & William Hardy – Documents Illustrative of English Church History, compiled from Original Sources 1896 705 pp.
“Fullest upon the sixteenth century.” – Owen Chadwick
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Histories
Parker, T.M. – The English Reformation to 1558 175 pp. 1960
Powicke, F.M. – The Reformation in England Buy Oxford
ed. Ha, Polly & Patrick Collinson – The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain in Proceedings of the British Academy Buy (British Academy, 2011) 280 pp.
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English Presbyterianism
1800’s
M’Crie, Thomas – Annals of English Presbytery: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time 1872 345 pp.
Drysdale, A.H. – History of the Presbyterians in England: their Rise, Decline and Revival 1880 655 pp.
Dalton, Hermannn – John A Lasco: his Earlier Life & Labors: a Contribution to the History of the Reformation in Poland, Germany & England 1886 390 pp.
Selborne, Lord – Notes on Some Passages in the Liturgical History of the Reformed English Church 1878 215 pp.
Hannah, William – Wycliffe & the Huguenots, or Sketches of the Rise of the Reformation in England and of the Early History of Protestantism in France 1860 290 pp.
Perry, George – History of the Reformation in England 1895 265 pp. in Epochs of Church History
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Multi-Volume
Stoughton, John – History of Religion in England, from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the mid-1800’s, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 1882
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1900’s
ed. Stephens & Hunt
Frere, W.H. – The English Church in the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I, 1558-1625 1904 430 pp.
Gairdner, James – The English Church in the Sixteenth Century from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Mary 1903 450 pp.
Hutton, William Holden – The English Church from the Accession of Charles I to the Death of Anne, 1625-1714 1903 380 pp.
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2000’s
Ha, Polly
English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640 Buy (Stanford Univ. Press, 2010)
The Puritans on Independence: The First Examination, Defence & Second Examination Buy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017)
Powell, Hunter
The Crisis of British Protestantism: Church Power in the Puritan Revolution, 1638–44 in Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Buy (Manchester Univ. Press, 2015)
Church Polity & Politics in the British Atlantic World, c. 1635-66 in Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain Buy (Manchester Univ. Press, 2020)
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The Oxford Reformers
Seebohm, Frederic – The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus and Thomas More, being a history of their fellow-work 1913 550 pp.
Shaw, W. Hudson – Introductory Lectures on the Oxford Reformers: Colet, Erasmus and More 1893 88 pp.
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Special Periods
Elton, G.R. – England under the Tudors Buy 1955 520 pp.
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The Theology of the Anglican Church
Toplady
Kirby, W.J. Torrance – The Theology of Richard Hooker in the Context of the Magisterial Reformation 1993 78 pp.
big systematic in Historical theology
Link PRDL Anglicans, my systematic theology page
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Anglican Literature
John Parker Society, link
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From a Roman Catholic Viewpoint
Hughes, Philip
The Reformation in England, 3 vols. Buy 1952 ff.
Hughes was a Roman Catholic priest and historian, to be distinguished from Philip Edgcumbe Hughes.
“Best exposition of the Roman Catholic point of view.” – Owen Chadwick
Rome and the Counter-Reformation in England Buy 1942
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After The Glorious Revolution of 1689
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On the Definition of a ‘Puritan’
Quotes
George Gillespie
English Popish Ceremonies (1637), pt. 2, ch. 5, pp. 23-4
“Neither is this all the injury which is occasioned by the ceremonies [sought to be imposed on the Church of Scotland]: they make godly and zealous Christians to be mocked and nicknamed ‘Puritans’, except they can swallow the camel of conformity.
Our consciences bear us witness, how without all reason we are branded with the name of those ancient heretics ([David Calderwood,] The Pastor & the Prelate, [pt. 3,] p. 36[-38]), from whose opinions and manners, O! how far are we? And as for ourselves, notwithstanding all this, we shrink not to be reproched for the cause of Christ; we know the old Waldenses before us were also named by their adversaries, ‘Cathares’ or ‘Puritans’ (History of the Waldenses, bk. 1, ch. 3): and that without cause has this name been given both to them and us.
But we are most sorry, that such as are walking humbly with their God, seeking eagerly after the means of grace and salvation, and making good conscience of all their ways, should be made odious, and that piety, humility, repentance, zeal, conscience, etc. should be mocked, and all by occasion of the ceremonies.”
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A Pack of Old Puritans Maintaining the Unlawfulness & Inexpediency of Subscribing the New Engagement… (London, 1650), p. 1 These authors were royalists, contra the more puritan parliament.
“Though we delight not to revive that odious and reproachful name of ‘Puritan’, with which in the height of Prelacy and Prerogative Royal [absolutist government], all conscientious men were stigmatized that scrupled conformity to superstitious innovations in the Church and opposed illegal taxations and impositions in the State…”
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