John Coffey (historian)

John Coffey is an English historian. He has written monographs on Samuel Rutherford and John Goodwin, and is Professor of early modern history at the University of Leicester. His "Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558–1689" is the first overview work on the topic since W. K. Jordan's four-volume work "The Development of Religious Toleration in England" (1932–1940).