John Coffey Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England.

John Coffey Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689 (Studies in new History.) Essex: Pearson Education. 2000 Pp xii, 244 $1799 ISBN 0-582-30464-4

In his introduction to this admirably lucid and compact textbook John Coffey states that he has "trie[d] to provide the first scrutinize of persecution and toleration in early recent England since W. K. Jordan, The progress to maturity of Religious Toleration in England" (p xi). A scant 244 pages later, it is clear that Coffey's efforts have been fortunate One-tenth the length of Jordan's magisterial

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