Table of Contents
Preface 9
Abbreviations 11
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The First Losers, 1649-1651 29
1 Levellers
2 True Levellers
3 From Ranters to Muggletonians
Chapter 3 The Second Losers, 1653-1660 51
1 Fifth Monarchists: Preachers and Plebeians
2 Regicides
3 Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston (?1610-63)
Chapter 4 Seekers 84
1 William Erbery (1604-54) in the Wilderness
2 William Sedgwick (?1610-69): Rethinking in Public
3 Isaac Penington (1616-79): From Ranter to Quaker
Chapter 5 Quakers, 1651-1661 129
1 Quakers and the Good Old Cause
2 James Nayler (1617-60): The 'Head Quaker'
3 Edward Burrough (1634-62): Quaker Politician
4 George Fox (1624-91) and the Peace Principle
5 After 1661
Chapter 6 Independents and Republicans 170
1 John Owen (1616-83): 'Cromwell's Archbishop'
2 Thomas Goodwin (1600-80)
3 Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and the Revolutions of Christ
4 James Harrington (1611-77), Henry Neville (1620-94) and the Harringtonians
Chapter 7 Some Conservative Puritan Ministers 207
Chapter 8 Survivors 220
1 John (1607-81) and Samuel Pordage (1633-?91): The Epic of the Fall
2 Andrew Marvell (1621-78): Millenarian to Harringtonian
3 Henry Stubbe (1632-76): Private Rethinking
Chapter 9 Army, Saints, People 278
1 The Army and the Radicals
2 The Saints and 'the People'
3 Folds for Scattered Sheep
4 Other Losers
Chapter 10 Conclusion: Milton and the Experience of Defeat 297
1 The Apostasy and the Wilderness
2 The Anointing
3 God on Trial
4 Samson Agonistes
5 Harrington and Milton
Index 329
