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.

• Introduction I. I. Puritanism and revolution II. Henry Jacob and puritan 'antipuritanism' III. The Hampton Court Conference and necessity of independence IV. The freedom of independence V. The freedom of consent VI. The freedom of association VII. Royal supremacy and religious toleration VIII. The reception of Jacob's independence in the English Revolution Reader's guide I. Texts II. Abbreviations III. Manuscripts IV. Editorial Key V. Marginal Notes VI. Footnotes VII. Transcription Principal events in Henry Jacob's Life Table of contents for 'First Examination' Argument sequence The First Examination The Defence The Second Examination General index Scripture index

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.

• Introduction I. I. Puritanism and revolution II. Henry Jacob and puritan 'antipuritanism' III. The Hampton Court Conference and necessity of independence IV. The freedom of independence V. The freedom of consent VI. The freedom of association VII. Royal supremacy and religious toleration VIII. The reception of Jacob's independence in the English Revolution Reader's guide I. Texts II. Abbreviations III. Manuscripts IV. Editorial Key V. Marginal Notes VI. Footnotes VII. Transcription Principal events in Henry Jacob's Life Table of contents for 'First Examination' Argument sequence The First Examination The Defence The Second Examination General index Scripture index

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.

• Introduction I. I. Puritanism and revolution II. Henry Jacob and puritan 'antipuritanism' III. The Hampton Court Conference and necessity of independence IV. The freedom of independence V. The freedom of consent VI. The freedom of association VII. Royal supremacy and religious toleration VIII. The reception of Jacob's independence in the English Revolution Reader's guide I. Texts II. Abbreviations III. Manuscripts IV. Editorial Key V. Marginal Notes VI. Footnotes VII. Transcription Principal events in Henry Jacob's Life Table of contents for 'First Examination' Argument sequence The First Examination The Defence The Second Examination General index Scripture index