This is the latest volume in a series that gives scholars and students of English and Welsh Nonconformity access to a range of primary source materials that most would otherwise have difficulty in finding. The documents are divided into six sections for the convenience of readers. The editors admit that they found devising a workable classification problematic because of some thematic overlap but it is unlikely that readers will find their scheme anything other than helpful. Each section is preceded by an introduction with an appropriate bibliography and additional citations are included, where appropriate, with the individual documents. Teachers of eighteenth-century religious history courses will find ample scope for enriching their course content with a wealth of familiar and unfamiliar sources. Thus documents relating to the subscriber and non-subscribing sides in the Salters' Hall affair can be supplemented by papers relating to an individual congregation attempting to preserve orthodoxy, in this case Castle Gate church, Nottingham. This was an era of fluid and evolving denominationalism and, conveniently, the editors have opted to include Methodist materials as well as other new shoots such as the Swedenborgians and the Sandemanians. These are well covered alongside the more ample range on Old Dissent and the Quakers. The editorial team of Sell, Hall and Sellers is in itself a guarantee of the thoroughness with which the selection has been made and they are to be congratulated on more than achieving their intention of presenting ‘as clear a view as possible of the philosophical, doctrinal, ecclesiological, socio-political, evangelistic and missionary concerns of the eighteenth-century Nonconformists’ (p. 6).
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