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Church and People in Interregnum Britain: The administration of the interregnum Church
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The administration of the interregnum Church
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table of contents
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: stability and flux: the Church in the interregnum
The administration of the interregnum Church
1. What happened in English and Welsh parishes c.1642–62?: a research agenda
Many traditional parish records were lost, but were there any gains?
What happened to parish registers?
What happened to parish records in general?
What happened to parish clergy?
What happened to Church officials?
What happened to Church services, customs and ‘rites of passage’?
What happened to the maintenance and repair of churches?
How were parishes financed during this period?
What happened to ‘Church/state relations’ during this period?
How did people feel about these changes?
How can we get towards a fuller picture?
2. ‘Soe good and godly a worke’: the surveys of ecclesiastical livings and parochial reform during the English Revolution
3. The ecclesiastical patronage of Oliver Cromwell, c.1654–60
The clergy of the Commonwealth
4. The impact of the landscape on the clergy of seventeenth- century Dorset
Introduction
The Dorset landscape and its impact on parochial experiences
Impact of parish terrain
Value and use of glebe land
Tithe income
Persecution
Cross-county mobility
Conclusion
5. The clergy of Sussex: the impact of change, 1635–65
Methodological issues
Puritanism
Clergy origins
Education
Wealth and wills
Ejections and displacement
Conclusion
Enforcing godly ideals
6. ‘Breaching the laws of God and man’: secular prosecutions of religious offences in the interregnum parish, 1645–60
Profaning the Sabbath
Because of swearing, the land mourneth
Keeping a close eye on adulterers
Such persons as refuse to pay their dues
Disorders in church
Prosecutions for non-conformity
7. Scandalous Ayr: parish-level continuities in 1650s Scotland
Early modern scandal
Scandal in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland
Ayr’s kirk session and scandal
Parish-level continuities
Conclusion
Traditionalist religion: patterns of persistence and resistance
8. Malignant parties: loyalist religion in southern England
Evidence for the Directory and the Book of Common Prayer
Evidence for the celebration of major festivals
Other evidence for loyalist religion
The Restoration and after
9. ‘God’s vigilant watchmen’: the words of episcopalian clergy in Wales, 1646–60
Introduction
Civil War context, 1641–7
Political words
Conclusion
Remembering godly rule
10. ‘A crack’d mirror’: reflections on ‘godly rule’ in Warwickshire in 1662
Flight and ejection, 1642–57
Puritan intruders in the 1640s and 1650s
The Warwickshire clergy of 1660–2
Disputed titles
Clerical remuneration
Religious separatism
Returners
Remainers
Puritan intruders who conformed
Ejected puritans and ‘new loyalists’, 1660–2
The mirrors of memory
Conclusion
Index
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