Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London

ix, 258 pp. "This unique portrait of the life, thought, and attitudes of a London Puritan turner is based on the extraordinary personal papers of Nehemiah Wallington--2,600 surviving pages of memoirs, religious reflections, political musings and letters. Coming to maturity during the reign of Jame I, Wallington witnessed the persecution of Puritans during Archbishop Laud's ascendancy, welcomed what he thought would be the godly revolution brought by the Long Parliament, and watched with increasing disillusionment the failure of that dream under the Rump Parliament and the Cromwellian Protectorate."