Primary Sources: Commonwealth & Protectorate Era (England): Personal Sources

Biographies, Illustrated by Letters and other Documents

"Among those who appear are such prominent figures as Oliver Cromwell, Archbishop James Ussher, Bishop John Williams, Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, John Eliot, John Winthrop, Richard Mather, Peter Bulkeley, Charles Chauncy, John Dod, and Nathaniel Ward, as well as many little-known persons who wrote to Cotton for advice and guidance."

v.l. Introduction and De vita propria.--v.2. Kalendarium, 1620-1649.--v.3. Kalendarium, 1650-1672.--v.4. Kalendarium, 1673-1689.--v.5. Kalendarium, 1690-1706.--v.6. Additions & corrections.

member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656-59 ... With an ... account of the Parliament of 1654; from the journal of Guibon Goddard ... Ed. and illustrated with notes historical and biographical by John Towill Rutt.

Edited by Ruth Spalding.

Most of the letters are written by Jones; of the others, all except a few are written to him.

The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn