Accommodating high churchmen : the clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745 / Jeffrey S. Chamberlain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamberlain, Jeffrey S. (Jeffrey Scott), 1958-

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in Anglican history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--England--Sussex--Clergy--History--18th century.

Church of England.

High Church movement--England--Sussex--History--18th century.

High Church movement.

History.

Clergy.

Sussex (England)--Church history--18th century.

Sussex (England).

Sussex (England)--Politics and government.

England--Sussex.

Physical Description:

xv, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]

Summary:

What happened to High Churchmen in eighteenth-century England? Contending that high-church clergymen did not simply acquiesce to government after the Janoverian accession, as has often been claimed. Jeffery Chamberlain explores the complex accommodation that was forged between the secular powers and the clergy.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

The high-church ethos and its development

High churchmanship in Sussex, 1688-1734

Patronage, politics, and churchmanship : wooing the clergy, 1715-34

Toryism, high churchmanship, and the election of 1734

The clergy and the end of Tory opposition in Sussex, 1740-46

Conclusion

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-183) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

0252023080

OCLC:

35172522