Excerpt from Yorkshire Puritanism and Early Nonconformity: Illustrated by the Lives of the Ejected Ministers, 1660 and 1662 The late Rev. Bryan Dale, M.A., was, as is well-known, an accomplished and indefatigable student of the History of Nonconformity and Independency. He grudged no labour and research in collecting and amassing material bearing on this study, exploring for this purpose the archives of the British Museum, Lambeth Palace, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as well as other sources of information. The result is very partially embodied in the present work on "Yorkshire Puritanism and Early Nonconformity." This has been carefully compiled from Mr. Dale's notes and ably edited by the Rev. T. G. Crippen, Secretary of the Congregational Historical Society. For the Nonconformist Churches of Yorkshire, and especially for those of the Congregational Faith and Order, this work should have a special interest and value. It is a monument to the men who, in the heroic age of Nonconformity, preferred to encounter homelessness, privation and suffering rather than purchase peace at the price of conscience, and buy off by unworthy compliance the resentment and intolerance of the then rulers of Church and State. It was Mr. Dale's purpose to write a full and comprehensive history of Congregationalism in Yorkshire. This was frustrated by growing physical incapacity. Had he been as zealous in the disposing and presentation of his material as he was in seeking and bringing it together, this History - doubtless in less complete form - would have been, long ere this, an accomplished fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.