Thirty-one years have elapsed, since the appearance of the former edition of this work. During that period, the public atten tion has been largely directed towards this department of Biblical literature; not merely on the score of a taste for Bibliography; but with the far higher object, of tracing with exactness the steps by which the great work of the Reformation was accomplished in the British dominions, and of further elucidating the characters of many eminent persons, who were raised up by Providence to take leading parts in those memorable transactions.