Edited by Polly Ha, Reader in Early Modern History, School of History, University of East Anglia

Consultant Editor Jonathan D. Moore and Consultant Editor Edda Frankot, Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen

Polly Ha is a Reader in History at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is Director of The History of Independence Project and formerly taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Southern California.

Jonathan D. Moore holds a PhD in historical theology and ecclesiastical history from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia.

Edda Frankot is currently an editorial research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, where she is editing a digital transcription of the medieval Aberdeen burgh records. She is also Associate Editor of The 1641 Depositions and was formerly a lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

"Ha and her team have provided a great service in making these texts available to the scholarly community. The documents are transcribed with great care and accompanied by extensive footnotes and images of key passages from the original manuscripts, such as one in which Jacobs critics first use the term independency to highlight the novelty of his position...[This book] will doubtless long be embraced as a key resource for all those who wish to understand this period of intense theological and political upheaval." - Joseph P. Ward, Utah State University, Reading Religion

"The texts themselves are well presented and thoroughly annotated ... In addition to commenting on the condition and layout of the manuscripts themselves, the editors' annotations de?ne archaic terms, provide references to sources mentioned in the text, explain obscure refer-ences and, in the main, help to make the dif?cult source material as readable and accessible as possible." - Matthew C. Bingham, Journal of Ecclesiastical History