Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. List of abbreviations viii
5. Note on conventions xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 The radicalisation of conformist puritanism, c. 1638–40 15
8. 2 Smectymnuus and the attack on episcopacy in 1641 35
9. 3 The emergence of the London presbyterian movement, 1642–3 67
10. 4 London presbyterians and the fracture of parliamentarianism, 1644–5 94
11. 5 The campaign for presbyterian church government, 1645–6 118
12. 6 The political presbyterian moment, 1646–7 138
13. 7 Presbyterian church government in the Province of London, 1646–60 168
14. 8 The London presbyterians and the projected settlements of the British civil wars, 1647–9 195
15. 9 ‘Mr Love’s case’ and the London presbyterian struggle against the English republic, 1649–51 220
16. 10 Cromwellian Britain, c. 1653–9 242
17. 11 The Restoration, 1659–60 267
18. 12 Epilogue 294
19. Conclusion 311
20. Index 319