David Appleby - Black Bartholomews Day: Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity

Black Bartholomews Day

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

General Editors

PROFESSOR ANN HUGHES

DR ANTHONY MILTON

PROFESSOR PETER LAKE

This important series publishes monographs that take a fresh and challenging look at the interactions between politics, culture and society in Britain between 1500 and the mid-eighteenth century. It counteracts the fragmentation of current historiography through encouraging a variety of approaches which attempt to redefine the political, social and cultural worlds, and to explore their interconnection in a flexible and creative fashion. All the volumes in the series question and transcend traditional interdisciplinary boundaries, such as those between political history and literary studies, social history and divinity, urban history and anthropology. They thus contribute to a broader understanding of crucial developments in early modern Britain.

Already published in the series

Leicester and the Court: essays on Elizabethan politics SIMON ADAMS

Ambition and failure in Stuart England: the career of John, first Viscount Scudamore IAN ATHERTON

The 1630s IAN ATHERTON AND JULIE SANDERS (eds)

Literature and politics in the English Reformation TOM BETTERIDGE

No historie so meete: Gentry culture and the development of local history in Elizabethan and early Stuart England JAN BROADWAY

JUSTIN CHAMPION

Home divisions: aristocracy, the state and provincial conflict THOMAS COGSWELL

CATHARINE DAVIES

CHRISTOPHER DURSTON

LORI ANNE FERRELL and PETER MCCULLOUGH (eds)

The spoken word: oral culture in Britain 15001850 ADAM FOX and DANIEL WOOLF (eds)

Reading Ireland: print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland RAYMOND GILLESPIE

PAUL GRIFFITHS and MARK JENNER (eds)

Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution ANDREW HOPPER

Inventing a republic: the political culture of the English Commonwealth, 16491653 SEAN KELSEY

London PETER LAKE

Theatre and empire: Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I TRISTAN MARSHALL

J . F . MERRITT

Courtship and constraint: rethinking the making of marriage in Tudor England DIANA O HARA

The origins of the Scottish Reformation ALEC RYRIE

England ETHAN SHAGAN (ed.)

ALEXANDRA SHEPARD and PHILIP WITHINGTON (eds)

Aspects of English Protestantism, c. 15301700 NICHOLAS TYACKE

Charitable hatred: tolerance and intolerance in England, 15001700 ALEXANDRA WALSHAM

Crowds and popular politics in early modern England JOHN WALTER

Political passions: gender, the family and political argument in England, 16801714 RACHEL WEIL

Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity

DAVID J. APPLEBY

Copyright David J. Appleby 2007

The right of David J. Appleby to be identified as the author of this work has
been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988.

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FOR DAD

KEEP GOING!

I would like to thank Ann Hughes for her unstinting support, advice and encouragement throughout this project. I would like to thank all the academic and administrative staff in History, English and the Humanities Research Institute at Keele University for their help. Particular thanks go to Roger Pooley, Ian Atherton, Kate Cushing, Philip Morgan, Alannah Tomkins, Christopher Harrison, Malcolm Crook, Peter Jackson, David Amigoni, Simone Clarke, Jim MacLaverty, Kath McKeown, Amanda Roberts, Beryl Shore and Julie Street. I am very grateful to Peter Lake for many useful conversations during his tenure as Leverhume Visiting Professor at Keele. I have also benefited enormously from the help and advice generously given by Richard Cust, John Spurr, John Walter, Ted Vallance, Michael Mendle, Julie Sanders, Patricia Clavin, Elizabeth Clark, Jens-Wilhelm Wessels, Ian Green and Andy Fear, as well as the friendship and support of the Keele postgraduate community, including Geoff Baker, Clive Bradbury, Kelly Hignett, Clark Colman, Jon Denton, Ann McGruer, Natasha Grayson, Hitomi Yamanaka, Minako Ichikawa, Andy Barnicoat, Cath Yarwood and Graeme Smart. Thanks are also due to Erik Geleijns of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, and David Wykes of Dr Williamss Library, and to staffs of the British Library, the Bodleian Library, Dr Williamss Library, the National Archives (Public Record Office), the John Rylands Library, Essex Record Office, Lichfield Record Office, Stafford Record Office, Shropshire Record Office, and Keele University Library. I am grateful to all at Manchester University Press for guiding me through the publishing process. Finally, I am very conscious of the debt owed to my family, particularly my father and late mother, for their encouragement and support over many years. This book is as much their achievement as it is mine.