Introduction
1 The radicalisation of conformist puritanism, c. 1638-40
2 Smectymnuus and the attack on episcopacy in 1641
3 The emergence of the London presbyterian movement, 1642-3
4 London presbyterians and the fracture of parliamentarianism, 1644-5
5 The campaign for presbyterian church government, 1645-6
6 The political presbyterian moment, 1646-7
7 Presbyterian church government in the Province of London, 1646-60
8 The London presbyterians and the projected settlements of the British civil wars, 1647-9
9 'Mr Love's case' and the London presbyterian struggle against the English republic, 1649-51
10 Cromwellian Britain, c. 1653-9
11 The Restoration, 1659-60
12 Epilogue: the Cavalier Parliament, the Great Ejection of 1662 and the first years of dissent
Conclusion
Index