OR THE CHURCH, COURT, AND PARLIAMENT DURING THE REIGNS OF EDWARD VI. AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. BY SAMUEL HOPKINS. "The Liberties of our House it behooveth us to leave to our Posterities in the same Committee of the Puritan Commons to the Lords, 1575-6. NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY. CINCINNATI: GEORGE S. BLANCHARD. 1861. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press, Cambridge: PREFATORY NOTE. In the course of the following pages I have cited several authorities not mentioned in the catalogue prefixed to my first volume. When I have first had occasion to notice any one of these, I have-without exception, I think-identified the edition in a note. I have occasionally referred to "Waddington's Papers" and to "Waddington's MS." By the former I designate certain papers with which I was furnished by the politeness of Rev. Dr. Waddington, Pastor of the Pilgrim Church in Southwark, England, while on his late mission to this country. One of these papers-a letter written in April, 1593-I consider of great value; and I think I have shown it to be such. By "Waddington's MS." I designate a work, yet unpublished, written by the same gentleman, and entitled "The Hidden Church." This manuscript is in the hands of "The Congregational Board of Publication," and has been generously lent to me by their Publishing Committee, who have allowed me to use it at discretion. I have rarely quoted from it, but have often referred to it. In either case, I could not, of course, specify the pages which I cite, as I certainly should have done, were it already published. Some of "Waddington's Papers" are contained in his man M145946 |