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6 MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL SERIES
No. XII. THE EJECTED OF 1662 : Their Predecessors and
Successors in Cumberland and Westmorland. By B.
Nightingale, M.A. In two volumes, demy 8vo, pp. xxiv.
1490. 28s. net. (Publication No. 62, 1911.)
" Primarily no doubt Mr. B. Nightingale's work is concerned with the
nonconformist ministers who were deprived of their livings by the Act
of Uniformity, but his researches have in fact led him much further
afield, and he has been able to give the names, with, in most cases,
some biographical notice, of all or nearly all the clergymen who held
livings in these two counties during the century. Nor is the interest of
the book solely local and biographical. Mr. Nightingale has made an
exhaustive study of the manuscript records of the period and has
collected an enormous mass of information illustrating the effect of the
Puritan regime and the Restoration upon the church life of the
country." English Historical Review.
" The rise of Nonconformity in Cumberland and Westmorland in the
middle of the seventeenth century has received sympathetic treatment in
the exhaustive survey of these excellent volumes. The author has
brought to his task an extensive acquaintance with the original sources,
an intelligent appreciation of ecclesiastical problems, and a wide grasp
of the causes which produced the civil upheaval known as the Commonwealth.
. . . The impartial reader will have nothing but commendation
for Mr. Nightingale's treatment of this period : he is a scholar of broad
sympathies, desirous to be accurate, fair in holding the balance between
opposing theories, and prudent in drawing conclusions when the
evidences are ambiguous. No student can claim to know the ecclesiastical
history of the two counties till he has mastered these interesting
volumes." Scottish Historical Review.
" It is not given to every man to commence author with a magnum
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opus, but having regard to the field covered and the standard of work
maintained we are inclined to think that Mr. Nightingale, who is
responsible for these 1,500 pages, has achieved the distinction. . , .
The index to the volumes deserves great praise, and the same is due
to the admirable way in which the printers have executed what must
have been in many cases an extremely difficult task." Church Quarterly
Review.
No. XIII. GERMANY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Lectures by J. Holland Rose, Litt.D., C. H. Herford,
Litt.D., E. C. K. Gonner, M.A., and M. E. Sadler, M.A.,
LL.D. W T ith an Introductory Note by Viscount Haldane.
Demy 8vo, pp. xxi. 142. 2s. 6d. net. Second Edition.
(Publication No. 65, 1912.)
" To Germans, it may be hoped, it will be another proof that
Englishmen are very willing to think the best of the great country to
whose example they themselves owe so much. To Englishmen who read
it—and we hope they will be many—it will give the key to much which
they have hitherto failed to understand in the temper and attitude of
the German people ; and understanding is the first and most important
step towards a good understanding." The Times.
" The volume is excellent, both in design and in execution, and it
appears at an opportune moment. Within the compass of scarcely more
than 100 pages the leading features of the life and development of our
great neighbour are skilfully portrayed by well-known specialists. The
lectures are at once scholarly and popular, and may be read with
advantage both by those who know much and those who know little of
modern Germany." The Nation.
Published for Manchester University by Sherratt & Hughes