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What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church and state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608-80), Henry Ireton (1611-51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618-92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from the context of their kin link to Cromwell and how their private worlds shaped their public roles, how kinship was part of the functioning of the Cromwellian state, how they were seen and presented, and how this impacted on their own lives, and their kin, before and after the Restoration.Cromwell's career can be explored further by considering figures in his kinship network to show how the public and private overlapped and influenced each other through their interaction before and after 1660. This study aims to consider the trajectory of elements of Cromwell's network and how its functioning and the interaction of its constituent parts over time shaped the politics of the years 1643 to 1660 but also how the survival of some networks after 1660 were continuing communities of those willing to own their memories of the civil wars, regicide, and Cromwell. A study of aspects of Cromwell's kin also provides examples of the continuities between those who resisted the Stuarts in the 1640s and 1650s and did so again in the 1680s.Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern British, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

A collection of 17th-century diatribes against tobacco.

This illustrated history focuses on interactions between people, business, authority, landscape and buildings in an attempt to convey a sense of what life was really like for many people living in Watchet or Williton. So many records have been lost for so many parishes that writing a history such as this is usually impossible, but for St Decumans the situation is reversed. The results of an analysis of these records, which has taken over five years, has revealed a complicated web of relationships on all levels of society, as well as in matters of business and governance in their widest sense. At times there were incidents, families, events and individuals that dominated this story of parish life.A few examples of those myriad of interactions include god-parents with god-children, masters with their servants and apprentices, merchants with business contacts, mariners with their crew, customs officials and port overseers, farmers with markets, estate stewards with tenants, clergy with their congregation and diocesan officials, overseers with poor-rate payers, the infirm and ill, constables with militia authorities, manor bailiffs with tenants, individuals relationship with God, landowners with their staff, tenants and voters, church and chapelwardens with the church fabric, alesellers, streetkeepers and those who were involved in affrays. In addition, this investigation peels back the interlocking layers of organisation within this 17th-century parish to give a rounded understanding of just how almost every aspect of life was managed or governed in some way or another.We hope you enjoy this account of a unique part of the county of Somerset. It has been a true labour of love. The local celebrities who lived in the parish some four centuries ago have not been forgotten. Their exploits, trials and tribulations were written down and kept by generations of record keepers. They are brought to light and where possible illustrated in this brief account.

This book lists the Scottish Covenanter prisoners who were transported for sale to the plantations or colonies in America and the West Indies after battles with Stuart English forces between the years 1639 and 1690.

Irlande, 1685-1729. Dès le début du livre, nous sommes transportés dans l'ancien ordre gaélique : école de poésie, festins de chefs de clan, course de chevaux et Cour de Bardes. Mais la Guerre des Deux Rois mène à la trahison de LImerick, et nous accompagnons le héros, Egan O'Rathaille, sous l'oppression puis dans la résistance, et lors d'une très éclairante tour des Grandes Maisons du Munster. Il brave les épreuves les plus cruelles sans renoncer, jusqu'au délirant voyage dans les sept vallées de son esprit. Après nous avoir promenés des allées vertes du Kerry aux couloirs du pouvoir de Dublin, l'auteur nous entraîne sur la frégate d'un corsaire en guerre, puis sur l'île de Montserrat aux Antilles ; il nous présente des dizaines de personnages qui viennent de chaque couche de la population. Leurs amours sont tragiques, fortes ou frivoles, et leurs destins sont clivés comme celui de leur pays.L'écriture évolue de scène en scène : poétique, liée ou coupée selon l'ambiance, comme ces mélodies tour à tour sombres et entraînantes qui animent encore les soirées irlandaises.Cette immense fresque illumine le demi-siècle le plus noir de l'histoire de l'Irlande, et met en honneur la poésie gaélique, mais c'est surtout un monument au courage d'un homme qui - dit tout simplement - avance malgré tout.Tome 2 : L'oppression anglaise a brisé la famille d'Egan, mais aussi son propre entêtement dans la poursuite de son idéal. Poursuivi par des chasseurs de prime, il se réfugie chez les hommes forts du Munster qui résistent encore à l'envahisseur anglais. Ils soutiennent les guerres, en Europe et sur l'Atlantique, qui procurent espoirs et déceptions renouvelés. Hélas, le pire est encore devant Egan, mais il restera fidèle à lui-même jusqu'au bout.L'ancien ordre gaélique est inexorablement écrasé, mais au fond des vallées isolées, Egan trouve de l'amitié et du secours. Puis la menace jacobite s'éteint, le gouvernement guillaumite desserre son étau et la chasse aux poètes est oubliée. La famille Browne rentre dans ses terres et apporte un espoir de reconstruction : ce sera la dernière chance d'Egan. Cependant, ayant intériorisée la ruine de son pays, il lutte contre la folie. Amitié et résilience le porteront, d'indigence en dénuement, jusqu'à la famine de 1729. Son fils Cormac rentrera-t-il à temps ?Sauf exception, seules quelques strophes des poèmes apparaissent dans le récit. Ils sont disponibles en entier sur www.alphonsusstewart.org

Irlande, 1685-1729. Dès le début du livre, nous sommes transportés dans l'ancien ordre gaélique : école de poésie, festins des chefs de clan, course de chevaux et Cour de Bardes. Mais la Guerre des Deux Rois mène à la trahison de Limerick, et nous accompagnons le héros, Egan O'Rathaille, sous l'oppression, puis dans la résistance, et lors d'une très éclairante tour des Grandes Maisons du Munster. Il brave les épreuves les plus cruelles sans renoncer, jusqu'au délirant voyage dans les sept vallées de son esprit. Après nous avoir promenés des allées vertes du Kerry au couloirs du pouvoir de Dublin, l'auteur nous entraîne sur la frégate d'un corsaire en guerre, puis sur l'île de Monstserrat aux Antilles ; il nous présente des dizaines de personnages qui viennent de chaque couche de la population. Leurs amours sont tragiques, fortes ou frivoles, et leurs destins sont clivés comme celui de leur pays.L'écriture évolue de scène en scène : poétique, liée ou coupée selon l'ambiance, comme ces mélodies tour à tour sombres et entraînantes qui animent encore les soirées irlandaises.Cette immense fresque illumine le demi-siècle le plus noir de l'histoire de l'Irlande, et met en honneur la poésie gaélique classique, mais c'est surtout un monument au courage d'un homme qui - dit tout simplement - avance malgré tout.Tome 1. Irlande 1688 : le régime triomphant de Guilllaume d'Orange entreprend d'éradiquer la culture gaélique. Egan O'Rathaille, qui deviendra le plus grand poète de sa génération, brave toutes les interdictions et sa tête est mise à prix. Le durcissement des lois punitives lui fait comprendre que l'enjeu n'est pas seulement sa propre survie, mais celle de toute une littérature millénaire.Egan s'engage aux côtés des derniers chefs rebelles : O'Mahony attend l'aide française et espagnole, Fitzmaurice prône l'insurrection, MacCarthy veut combattre la loi par la loi. Tous veulent remettre Jacques II sur le trône, mais seront ballottées par les guerres qui éclatent en Europe et jusqu'aux Antilles.Surgit alors un drame cruel qui brise la famille d'Egan et le pousse au seuil de la déraison. Il est confronté à un dilemme tragique : doit-il renoncer à écrire, ou poursuivre même si la langue est sur le point de disparaître ?Sauf exception, seules quelques strophes des poèmes apparaissent dans le récit. Ils sont disponibles en entier sur le site www.alphonsusstewart.org

This book examines John Donne's theory of royal absolutism within a tradition of conformist thought.It argues that Donne displaced the conventional opposition between Catholics and Protestants and instead divided English subjects into two political categories: those who obey the law and those who break it.

The most comprehensive and complete study ever compiled about the turbulent period of the English and British Civil Wars and their aftermath.

A 17th century scoundrel: the life and times of Thomas Spigurnell, attorney, clerk of Taunton Castle, confederate, father, gentleman, pettyfogger, steward and surveyor of Taunton, Wilton, Clement's Inn and Long Sutton.This study is a groundbreaking piece of research into the life of an attorney is thought to be the first of its kind. The life of Thomas Spigurnell touched upon many places and people in different walks of life. This book offers a unique look into a 17th century life of an attorney. Born in Berkshire in 1630, thanks to a distant family connection he entered the world of Dr John Palmer who became MP for Taunton in 1645. After spending time at All Souls College, Oxford where he served as surveyor of the college estate, Spigurnell entered Clement's Inn, one of the inns of Chancery in London. In the 1650s he became embroiled with the Taunton confederates who controlled the town. He obtained numerous estates that had been sequestered by Parliament. He served as surveyor of the lands given to Taunton as compensation for their losses during the civil war. Subsequently one dispute followed another during the turbulent times of the Interregnum. His financial and legal activities have been painstakingly researched and brought to life in this volume. Spigurnell married into the wealthy Godwin family of Wells who were prominent recusants. The newly weds moved into Court Farm at Long Sutton but his wife passed away. Shortly afterwards he married Elizabeth Browne of Wilton (near Taunton). But controversy followed Spigurnell wherever he went. The newly weds did not receive their marriage settlement from her brother-in-law. Subsequently Spigurnell obtained control of the valuable office of clerk of Taunton Castle. He did this by taking advantage of his aged mother-in-law, who was suffering from a palsy, while she lay incapacitated in her sick bed at Sherford House, Wilton. This and other events are documented in this volume, including firsthand accounts of ordinary people who lived in Taunton during the 1640s and 1650s. Spigurnell had three children, a fine house at Long Sutton, practised law in Taunton, but his untimely death in 1663 was a disaster for his widow and family. His debt-ridden lifestyle came to life. A lack of money in the Spigurnell household at Long Sutton drove his widow to abandon their youngest child to the mercy of a neighbouring farmer's wife. She lived off the charity of friends but never gave up her claim to the substantial marriage dowry due to her from her brother. This and many other stories can be found in this volume.

A People's Reformation offers a reinterpretation of the English Reformation and the roots of the Church of England. Drawing on archival research, Lucy Kaufman argues that England became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people, but because of them - through their active social, political, and religious participation.

The sequel to the million copy bestseller &i>The Miniaturist&/i>, &i>The House of Fortune&/i> returns us to the mysterious Brandt family in Amsterdam in 1705 for a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young womans determination to rule her own destiny.

This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and promoting status and consumption, coffeehouses created a web of social networks stretching from Britain to its colonies in North America. As polite alternatives to taverns, coffeehouses have been hailed as 'penny universities'; a place for political discussion by the educated and elite. Reynolds shows that they were much more than this. Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1789, reveals that they simultaneously created a network for marine insurance and naval protection, led to calls for a free press, built tension between trade lobbyists and the East India Company, and raised questions about gender, respectability and the polite middling class. It demonstrates how coffeehouses served to create transatlantic connections between metropole Britain and her North American colonies and played an important role in the revolution and protest movements that followed.

Protestant Ulster-Scotsman Edward Moore (b. c. 1612), had a son born in London named Thomas Moore (b. 1654) who, abjuring his Anglicanism, married in 1690in Quebec City, a Catholic French-Canadian woman named Jeanne Lemelin. In The Origins of Thomas Moore, the reader will be taken back in time to proceed along a path that the ancestors of ThomasMoore would have taken. My sound and reasonable theory will illuminate the history which was taking place throughout the years and, with the help of genetic genealogy, show the evolution of this Moore family who ended up as French Canadians along the St. Lawrence River Valley ofCanada.

This book examines the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. It shows how and why preaching became an indispensable tool for those who sought to resist the seismic changes in Church and state that England experienced between 1640 and 1662.

One of the greatest frustrations for generations of genealogical researchers has been that reliable guidance on sources for perhaps the most critical period in the establishment of their family's links with Ulster, the period up to 1800, has proved to be so elusive. Not any more. This book can claim to be the first comprehensive guide for family historians searching for ancestors in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ulster. Whether their ancestors are of English, Scottish or Gaelic Irish origin, it will be of enormous value to anyone wishing to conduct research in Ulster prior to 1800. A comprehensive range of sources from the period 1600-1800 are identified and explained in very clear terms. Information on the whereabouts of these records and how they may be accessed is also provided. Equally important, there is guidance on how effectively they might be used. The appendices to the book include a full listing of pre-1800 church records for Ulster; a detailed description of nearly 250 collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century estate papers; and a summary breakdown of the sources available from this period for each parish in Ulster.

A revisionist history of the later Covenanter Rebellions, impacting on the later Monmouth and Jacobite Rebellions. The book provides in-depth analysis of Government and Covenanter forces, while narrating the battles of Rullion Green, Drumclog, Bothwell Brig and Aird's Moss.

John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove challenges the traditional accounts of Hampden's fatal wounding on 18 June 1643 and subsequent death.

This book charts the raising, equipping, maintenance and deployment of the various militia and auxiliary cavalry formations established in and around the City of London during the English Civil War by Parliament.

"According to a standard, long-running account of the rise of science, the "scientific revolution" brought about by genius figures like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton was a revolution in thought. It was the result of a disciplining of thought that opened the mind to the order and patterns in nature. Much of the scholarly pushback against this story focuses on expanding the cast of characters beyond the geniuses to include artisans, craftsmen, medical practitioners, sailors, tradesmen and other non-elites who contributed to the development of the scientific mindset. The author rejects the emphasis on cognitive orderliness and discipline that the standard account and its detractors share"--

"The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today"--