| Volume I |
| Introduction | |
| 1. | An Account of the printed Literature on the Subject (chiefly modern and general) with Criticisms | 1 |
| 2. | Collections of printed Books and Manuscripts that should be visited in the study of early English dissenting history (with notes upon the strong points of each library) | 22 |
| 3. | Notes relating to the Contents of the following pages | 26 |
| Foreword | 37 |
| Chapter I | The Anabaptists in England before 1612 | 41 |
| Chapter II | The gradual Growth of Puritanism and its Contribution to the Development of English Separatism until 1581 | 68 |
| Chapter III | Robert Browne and the Organization of the first English Congregational Church | 94 |
| Chapter IV | The Rise of the Barrowists | 118 |
| Chapter V | The Barrowists under the Leadership of Francis Johnson until 1597 | 136 |
| Chapter VI | The Barrowists on the Continent | 155 |
| Chapter VII | Certain obscure Barrowist and Separatist Congregations between 1588 and 1641 | 183 |
| Chapter VIII | The Family of Love and the English Seekers | 209 |
| Chapter IX | The first two English Anabaptist Congregations and their Leaders | 221 |
| Chapter X | The Congregation of English Anabaptists under the Leadership of Thomas Helwys and John Murton | 251 |
| Chapter XI | The English General, or Arminian, Anabaptists between 1624 and 1642 | 270 |
| Chapter XII | The Rise of the Independents | 281 |
| Chapter XIII | The History of Henry Jacob's Independent Puritan Congregation in London; and the Story of the Rise of the English Particular, or Calvinistic, Anabaptists | 312 |
| Appendix. | A Critical Examination of the Gould Manuscript | 336 |
| Chapter XIV | The Churches of New England until about 1641 | 357 |
| Appendix A | An additional Note concerning the book entitled, "Truth's Champion" | 369 |
| Appendix B | An additional Note relating to "A very plain and well grounded Treatise concerning Baptisme" | 370 |
| Appendix C | The latest Discovery relating to John Wilkinson | 370 |
| Appendix D | The Will of Ann Robinson, Mother of John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers | 376 |
| Appendix E | Did any English General Anabaptist practise Immersion before 1641? | 378 |
