A number of people and institutions have facilitated the completion of this study, and we would like to express our appreciation to them. Acknowledgement should be made of two grants to Corinne Comstock Weston from The City University of New York Faculty Research Award Program (1970–71, 1971–72) and grants to Janelle Renfrow Greenberg from the American Bar Foundation (1967) and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (1965). These made it possible to use the pamphlet collection in the North Library of the British Museum, now the British Library, and the McAlpin Collection in the Union Theological Seminary Library in New York City, to whose gracious and competent staffs thanks are due. To one person in particular we are grateful for the help he so generously gave. Very special thanks must go to Professor Ivan Roots for his scholarly examination of the study while still in typescript and the steady encouragement that aided immeasurably in its publication. The quality of the study was also improved by critical comments from Dr Mark N. Brown and Professor Francis Oakley and as the result of conversations with Dr Ian Roy and Dr M. J. Mendle. Finally, we have received advice and information from Dr Joel Fishman, Professor W. Speed Hill, Professor Peter Karsten, Professor Hugh Kearney, Professor Lois Schwoerer, and Professor Fred Whelan.

Much attention has been given to pamphlet literature in a discussion of what we see as the two leading political ideologies of Stuart England.