16 During the 1580s, the distribution of Puritan ministers has been estimated as follows:
|
Ministers |
Locations |
Essex |
|
|
Suffolk |
|
|
Norfolk |
|
|
Rutland and Northamptonshire |
|
|
Lincoln |
|
|
Kent |
|
|
Sussex |
|
|
Cambridgeshire |
|
|
Hertfordshire |
|
|
Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire |
|
|
Other counties |
|
|
Total |
|
|
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.