Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745

Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745
ISBN-10
0252023080
ISBN-13
9780252023088
Category
History
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain

Description

What happened to High Churchmen in eighteenth-century England? Contending that high-church clergymen did not simply acquiesce to government after the Hanoverian accession, as has often been claimed, Jeffrey Chamberlain explores the complex accommodation that was forged between the secular powers and the clergy. Focusing on the county of Sussex, he finds that there was accommodation by both clergy and the Whig politicians: the former had to make peace with a new administration, but that administration's efforts to prove themselves "good churchmen" enabled the religious to come to terms with them without jettisoning their principles.

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