The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Non-Conformists, from the Reformation to the Death of Queen Elizabeth: With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; and the Lives and Characters …

Five volume set. 1817 revised and enlarged edition of work first published in 1732. This printing is the last noted in Sabin 52143. Half-leather, gilt title on spine, marbled boards. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Daniel Neal (14 December 1678 – 4 April 1743) was an English historian. This History of the Puritans (book) deals with the time between the Protestant Reformation and 1689; the first volume appearing in 1732, and the fourth and last in 1738. The first volume was attacked in 1733 for unfairness and inaccuracy by Isaac Maddox, afterwards bishop of St Asaph and bishop of Worcester, to whom Neal replied in a pamphlet, A Review of the principal facts objected to in the first volume of the History of the Puritans; and the remaining volumes by Zachary Grey (1688–1766), to whom the author made no reply.[1] The History of the Puritans was edited, in five volumes, by Dr Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815), who added a life of Neal in 1797. This was reprinted in 1817, and an edition in two volumes was published in New York in 1844.[1]"--Wikipedia