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Article: Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England: 1558-1689.
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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By John Coffey. Harlow (U.K.): Longman, 2000. 244 pp.
This book is the first survey of its subject published in English since W.K. Jordan's four-volume The Development of Religious Toleration in England, 1558-1660 appeared over sixty years ago. Seemingly written for English secondary school students ("sixth formers") and undergraduates, the book would be useful as well for advanced American undergraduates, as well as readers interested in the historical and theoretical background to the Toleration Act of 1689, which accorded a limited degree of toleration to non-Anglican English Trinitarian Protestants and which, in turn, led to an unofficial tolerance for ...