uscript volume. But as I was previously furnished with them by Dr. Waddington himself, I have used them independently of the favor of "The Publishing Committee."
"The Hidden Church" is a history of the early struggles of ecclesiastical Independency, from its development under the reign of Queen Mary to its establishment on the shores of New England. It is a work of much interest, and the delay of its publication is to be regretted.
In prosecuting the task which I now conclude, I have found it necessary to procure from England a few volumes
rare and of old date- which were essential to my purpose. A few others have been furnished to me from the libraries of private gentlemen. With these, exceptions, I have depended upon generous and protracted loans - most freely granted from the libraries of Harvard College, the Boston Athenæum, Brown University, the University of Vermont, Amherst College, Yale College, and the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut.
The unfailing courtesy which I have received from these sources during the five years of my labor, I most gratefully acknowledge.
NORTHAMPTON (Mass.), April, 1861.