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This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history.
The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved towards becoming a liberal society at that time and whether or not the end of the century crowned a period of progress, or if one set of intolerant orthodoxies had simply been replaced by another.
The book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which, for the first time, a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one.
Persecution and Toleration is a critical addition to the study of early modern Britain and to religious and political history.

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PERSECUTION AND TOLERATION IN PROTESTANT ENGLAND, 15581689

JOHN COFFEY

First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2013 by Routledge

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-30464-2 (pbk)

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Coffey, John, 1969

Persecution and toleration in Protestant England, 15581689 / John Coffey.

p. cm. (Studies in modern history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0582304644 (pbk.) ISBN 0582304652 (cased)

1. PersecutionEnglandHistory16th century. 2. Religious toleranceEnglandHistory16th century. 3. EnglandChurch history16th century. 4. PersecutionEnglandHistory17th century. 5. Religious toleranceEnglandHistory17th century, 6. EnglandChurch history17th century. I. Title. II. Studies in modern history (Longman (Firm))

BX1492.C56 2000

272.7dc21

00059805

Typeset by 35 in 11/13pt Baskerville

For John and Emma

CONTENTS

A Free Disputation against Pretended Liberty of Conscience (1649) has been described by Owen Chadwick as the ablest defence of religious persecution during the seventeenth century.1 Its author was the Scottish Covenanter Samuel Rutherford, the subject of my first book, Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Ironically, Rutherfords treatise introduced me to the tolerationist pamphlets he had condemned, and led to the writing of this book. It tries to provide the first survey of persecution and toleration in early modern England since W. K. Jordan, The Development of Religious Toleration in England, 4 vols (London, 193240). Readers will be relieved to hear that it is almost ten times shorter than Jordans magnum opus.

The idea for the book was suggested by John Morrill, and like so many others I am deeply indebted to him for his enthusiasm and support. In the midst of a formidably busy life he has somehow found time to read my work and offer much wise advice. It is also a pleasure to say thanks to my former supervisor Mark Goldie, who offered invaluable comments on several of my chapters, and who has contributed so much to our understanding of persecution and toleration in later Stuart England. I am grateful to Michael Davies, Terry Hartley, Aubrey Newman and David Wykes, who read and commented upon sections of the book. They cannot be held responsible for any of my blunders or misinterpretations, but their help was much appreciated. The students who took my Cambridge University History Summer School course on persecution and toleration in early modern Europe also contributed a great deal to my thinking.

Several institutions have supported me during the course of my research and writing. Most of the work was done at Churchill College, Cambridge, where I was a Junior Research Fellow from 1994 to 1998. Churchill provided an ideal environment for research and writing, and I am indebted to the Master, the Fellows, and the staff for the very happy years I spent there. The completion of the book was made possible through the award of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the British Academy. I am grateful to David French, Rebecca Spang, Nicholas Tyacke and other colleagues for their support during my year at University College London. The final chapters were written at the University of Leicester, and I wish to thank everyone at the Department of History for helping me to settle in.

I am especially grateful to my uncle and aunt, John and Emma Parker, who gave me vital support at an important stage in my career. Without them, this book would probably not have been written. My parents have also given me lots of encouragement, even if research for this book did not take me to Scotland as did my work on Rutherford. Finally, my wife Cate has helped me far more than she knows by being herself and by tolerating my frequent musings on toleration.

Note

O. Chadwick, The Reformation (Harmondsworth, 1964), p. 403.

Publishers Acknowledgements

The publishers are grateful to Cambridge University Press for permission to reproduce a Table from Braithwaite, The Second Period of Quakerism, Second Edition (1961), p. 114 and a Table from G. Nuttall, The English martyrs 15351680: a statistical review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 22 (1971), pp. 1917.

Though every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright material, in a few cases this has proved impossible and we take this opportunity to apologise to any copyright holders whose rights may have been unwittingly infringed.

Historians of Stuart England have often been impressed by its modernity. Although their emphases differ, Whigs, Marxists, and Weberians alike have maintained that the modern world was forged in the furnace of seventeenth-century England. It was here, argued Marxist and Weberian writers, that one must look for the rise of the bourgeois mentality, the first of the great modern revolutions, the birth of modern science and modern capitalism.1 Here too, suggested Whig historians, was the seedbed of modern political liberalism, with its twin ideals of popular sovereignty and religious toleration.2

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