The Cambridgeshire Committee for Scandalous Ministers 1644 - 45. Edited by Graham Hart

Between March 1644 and January 1645 a Committee appointed by Parliament sat in Cambridge to hear complaints, largely from parishioners, against '"scandalous" or "malignant" ministers in the county. Twenty nine ministers were accused and all were subsequently ejected from their livings.The Committee book, published here for the first time, gives information about relations and tensions within the parishes concerned and the pressures which had built up within the Church at a parish level in the years before and during the first Civil (1642-1646)

The edition is provided with a scene-setting introuduction on the national context of the committee's work, and extensive additional information on each of the parishes and individuals concerned. 

Paperback: 164 pages