VOLUME 1:
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 & Characters Of Their Principle Divines.
By Daniel Neal
Printed For Richard Hett: London 1732
648 Pages
VOLUME 2:
The History Of The Puritans Or Protestant Non-Conformists From The Reformation To The Death Of Queen Elizabeth To The Beginning Of The Civil War In The Year 1642. With An Account Of Their Principles; Their Attempts For A Further Reformation In The Church; Their Sufferings; And The Lives & Characters Of Their Principle Divines.
By Daniel Neal
Printed For Richard Hett: London 1733
658 Pages
VOLUME 3:
The History Of The Puritans Or Protestant Non-Conformists From The Beginning Of The Civil War In The Year 1642 To The Death Of King Charles I 1648. With An Account Of Their Principles; Their Attempts For A Further Reformation In The Church; Their Sufferings; And The Lives & Characters Of Their Principle Divines.
By Daniel Neal
Printed For Richard Hett: London 1736
628 Pages
VOLUME 4:
The History Of The Puritans Or Protestant Non-Conformists From The Death Of King Charles 1 To The Act Of
Toleration
By King William & Queen Mary In The Year 1689 With An Account Of Their Principles; Their Attempts For A Further Reformation In The Church; Their Sufferings; And The Lives & Characters Of Their Principle Divines.
By Daniel Neal
Printed For Richard Hett: London 1738
664 Pages
Complete 4 Volume Set In Likely Original Leather & Vellum Bindings.
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Daniel Neal (14 December 1678 - 4 April 1743) was an English historian. Born in London, he was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, and at the universities of Utrecht and Leiden. In 1704 he became assistant minister, and in 1706 sole minister, of an independent congregation worshipping in Aldersgate Street, and afterwards in Jewin Street, London, where he remained almost until his death.
In 1720 Neal published his History of New England, which obtained for its author the honorary degree of MA from Harvard College. He also undertook to assist Dr John Evans in writing a history of Nonconformity. Evans, however, died in 1730, and, making use of his papers for the period before 1640, Neal wrote the whole of the work himself.
The History of the Puritans 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.
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.
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General wear, a few marks and fading to covers and spines with some damage to the top and bottom of the outer spines as shown. Likely original bindings with leather spine and vellum covers. Prior owner stamp on title pages. Includes a hand written pencil document at back of volume 4. Pages typically clean and pleasantly aged. Binding is solid with no loose pages. Very condition overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.
