For discussion:

Why did most contemporaries view religious toleration with deep suspicion in this period? On what grounds, and to what extent, did some defend it?

 General surveys:

J. Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (2000)

G. Elton, ‘Persecution and Toleration in the English Reformation’, Persecution and Toleration, ed. W Sheils (1984), Studies in Church History, 21.

C. Marsh, Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England (1998), esp. chs 4 and 5 (on dissent and compliance)

P.Marshall, Reformation England 1480-1642 (2003) Excellent historical and historiographical overview.

C. Russell, ‘Arguments for Religious Unity in England, 1530-1650’, Journ. of Ecclesiastical History, 18 (1967).

Walsham, Charitable Hatred. Tolerance and Intolerance in England 1500-1700 (2006)

 

R. Tittler, The Reign of Mary Tudor (1983)

E. Duffy, Fires of Faith. Catholic England under Mary Tudor (2009)

A.G Dickens, The English Reformation (1989)- chap. on Mary

Loades, The Reign of Mary Tudor (1991)

J Loach, ‘Mary Tudor and the Re-Catholicisation of England’, History Today, Nov.

1994 (a more optimistic assessment than Dickens/Loades)

D. MacCulloch, The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603 (1990)

Haigh, English Reformations (1989)

C. Haigh, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I (chaps. By Haigh and Collinson)

P Collinson, The Religion of Protestants (1982)

Dures, English Catholicism 1558-1642 (1983)

J Bossy, ‘The Character of Elizabethan Catholicism’, Past & Present (1962)

J Bossy, The English Catholic Community (1975)

Durston and J Eales, eds., The Culture of English Puritanism (1996) (good essays, covering the whole period)

P. McGrath, Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I (1967)

Walsham, Church Papists (1993)

B Reay, The Quakers and the English Revolution (1985)

Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (1972)

Marsh, The Family of Love (1994)

Michael Watts, The Dissenters, vol. 1 (1978) provides a good overall survey of the views and position of Protestant nonconformists throughout the period.

For some contemporary 17^th century views, reflecting opposite ends of the spectrum, see T. Edwards, Gangraena (1646, facsimile reprint 1977; long, but worth sampling); John Milton, Of Reformation or his Of True Religion; William Walwyn, in Writings (1996) (e.g. his Compassionate Samaritan); John Locke, An Essay on Toleration.