16 During the 1580s, the distribution of Puritan ministers has been estimated as follows:

 

Ministers

Locations

Essex

88

78

Suffolk

77

58

Norfolk

51

47

Rutland and Northamptonshire

49

42

Lincoln

33

33

Kent

30

27

Sussex

27

24

Cambridgeshire

13

14

Hertfordshire

20

12

Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire

11

9

Other counties

103

97

Total

502

441

Source: Allen, In English Ways, 10, tabulating data from Patrick Collinson, “The Puritan Classical Movement in the Reign of Elizabeth I” (thesis, Univ. of London, 1957), II, 1252-81. A few counties are missing, but would not alter the result in a material way. An independent study which obtained the same result was Ronald G. Usher, The Reconstruction of the English Church (2 vols., New York, 1910), I, 248.

17 William Hunt, The Puritan Movement: The Coming of the Revolution in an English County, (Cambridge, 1983), x.

18 Quoted in John Strype, Analysis of the Reformation (Oxford, 1824), II, pt. 2, p. 282.