There is a general bibliography of the period
1640-1660 in the Cambridge Modern History
( New York, 1906), volume IV, 884-904. A much
briefer one is in F. C. Montague volume in the
Political History of England for 1603- 1660, ( Lon-
don, 1907). Among special bibliographies, in Notes
and Queries for 1888 there is an admirable one by
Edward Peacock of pamphlet material relating to
Lilburne. Lilburne printed a partial list of his
writings in The Innocent Man's second-Proffer ( Lon-
don, 1649). The lives in the Dictionary of National
Biography furnish special bibliographies, good or
bad, according to the author of the life in question.
H. M. Dexter, The Congregationalism of the Last
Three Hundred Years as seen in its Literature ( New
York, 1880) has a good list of Independent litera-
ture. The Catalogue of the Thomason Tracts ( 2 vols.,
London, 1908) is an admirable guide to the great
mass of pamphlet material. It is arranged chrono-
logically, and takes advantage of Thomason's habit
of dating his daily acquisitions to supply in the
case of most tracts the day of publication. Its
main defect is an insufficient index that takes too
little account of long titles and of the large number
of tracts whose authorship is unknown or disputed.
As occasionally a tract is put under a date suggested
by the title or content rather than the date of pub-
lication, one is often reduced to searching for a
title by turning the leaves at random.

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