64 The Seventeenth Century (1603 - 1714)

deposited in a mass of writings quite disproportionate to their
real influence, have always attracted historians; two good and
careful studies have appeared.378 However, another study
casts doubts upon their democratic excellence and shows how
authoritarian were the army chaplains who dominated the
movement.379

Several odd currents in this age of utter upheaval have been
restudied. In his life of Hugh Peter, Stearns discusses plain
fanaticism;380 McLachlan seeks the germs of toleration in the
ideas of the early Unitarians;381 Barbour deals with the one
sect which even the true puritans could not tolerate.382 Rogers
attends to the chiliasts who, for a time, had such powerful in-
fluence among the military.383 Two scholars devote themselves
to a somewhat unstable puritan who survived the great age,384
and Cragg sketches out the continued existence of puritanism in
the days when, once again, it became the target rather than the
instrument of persecution, %*s

(E) 1660- 1714

Once the revolution was over, politics again played a more

significant part than faith and religious tract; but since English

378 Perez Zagorin, A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution.

L: Routledge: 1954. Pp. vii, 208. Rev: EHR 70, 49of. -Joseph

Frank, The Levellers: a history of the writings of three ijth century

democrats. G (Mass.): Harvard UP: 1955. Pp. viii, 345.
*7* Leo F. Solt, Saints in Arms: puritanism and democracy in Cromwell's

army. Stanford UP: 1959. Pp. 150. Rev: EHR 76, 155; HJ 4, 232f.
38* Raymond P. Stearns, The Strenuous Puritan: Hugh Peter, 1598-

1660. Urbana: Uof IllinoisP: 1954. Pp. xii, 463. Rev: EHR6g,666L
581 H. J. McLachlan, Sodnianism in Seventeenth Century England. L:

GUP: 1951. Pp. viii, 352.
*8i Hugh Barbour, The Quakers in Puritan England. New Haven: Yale

UP: 1964. Pp. viii, 272.
3S* P. R, Rogers, The Fifth Monarchy Men. L: OUP: 1966. Pp. viii,

168. Rev: EHR 83, 397.
*** [Richard Schlatter, Richard Baxter and Puritan Politics. New

Brunswick N.J.: Rutgers UP: 1957. **?* *78- Rcv: £HR 74> *5?f-]

- Geoffrey F. Nuttall, Richard Baxter. Edinburgh: Nelson: 1965.

Pp. ix, 142.
m Gerald C. Cragg, Puritanism in the Period of the Great Persecution,

1660-1688. CUP 1957. Pp. x, 326. Rev: EHR 74, 35of.