The restoration bishops and the royal supremacy

Church History

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 549-579

  Collins, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62449126597     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3170038     Document Type: Article

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2. John Spurr, The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991)
3. Paul Seaward, The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
4. Norman Sykes, From Sheldon to Secker: Aspects of English Church History, 1660-1768 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959)
5. R. A. Beddard, "The Restoration Church," in The Restored Monarchy, 1660-1688, ed. James Rees Jones (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979)
6. John Miller, Popery and Politics in England, 1660-1688 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973)
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8. Clare Cross, The Royal Supremacy in the Elizabethan Church (London: Allen and Unwin, 1969), 177
9. On Hooker and the civil sovereign, see John E. Booty, "Richard Hooker," in The Spirit of Anglicanism, ed. William John Wolf (Wilton, Conn.: Morehouse-Barlow, 1979), 12-13
10. Cross, Royal Supremacy, 64-65
11. Bancroft caused a stir in 1589 by preaching on the divine right of episcopacy. See Stuart Barton Babbage, Puritanism and Richard Bancroft (London: SPCK, 1962), 27-29
12. William Laud, "A Sermon Preached before His Majesty, on Tuesday the 19th of June at Wansted," in The Works of Archbishop Laud, ed. William Scott (Oxford: Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology, 1847-1860), 1:3-6
13. R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (London: J. Murray, 1926), 170
14. Laud, "Sermon Preached before His Majesty," in Works, 1:36
15. Laud, "Sermon Preached at Westminster," in Works, 1:84, 94
16. William Laud, "An Answer to the Speech of the Right Honorable William Lord Viscount Saye and Sele Spoken in Parliament upon the Bill about Bishops Power in Civil Affairs, and Courts of Judicature," in Works, 4: 151, 156
17. Laud, "Answer... about Bishop's Power," in Works, 4: 183
18. William Laud, "A Relation of the Conference between William Laud and Mr. Fisher the Jesuit, by the Command of King James of Ever Blessed Memory," in Works, 2:223, 228
19. William Laud, "The Answer of the Most Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Speech of the Lord Saye and Sele Touching the Liturgy," in Works, 4: 142
20. Laud, "Answer... Touching the Liturgy," 4:43
21. Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Laudianism and Political Power," in his Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans: Seventeenth-Century Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 69
22. John Spurr, Restoration Church, 30-37
23. Paul Seaward, Cavalier Parliament, chap. 7
24. I. M. Green, Re-establishment of the Church
25. Spurr, Restoration Church, 3
26. Ronald Hutton, Charles the Second: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 180, 195
27. J. N. Figgis, "Erastus and Erastianism," Journal of Thcological Studies 2 (1990): 65-97
28. Bosher, Restoration Settlement, 80
29. Spurr, Restoration Church, 299, 309
30. Robert Sanderson, Episcopacy (as established by law in England) Not Prejudicial to Regal Power (London: 1661), 19 and postscript
31. Laney, "Shepherd," 10-12
32. Herbert Thorndike, Just Weights and Measures: That is, the Present State of Religion Weighed in the Balance and Measured by the Standard of the Sanctuary (London: 1662), 41
33. idem, A Letter Concerning the Present State of Religion amongst Us (London: 1656), 19
34. On Thorndike, see J. A. Lacey, Herbert Thorndike, 1598-1672 (London: SPCK, 1929)
35. Matthew Wren, Bishop Wren's Petition to Parliament, in Defense of Episcopacie. In Behalf of Himself and the Rest of the Bishops, (London: 1642), 3
36. Hugh Trevor-Roper, " 'Little-Pope Regulus': Matthew Wren, Bishop of Norwich and Ely," in From Counter Reformation to Glorious Revolution (London: Secker and Warburg, 1992), 151-72
37. "Relation by John Cosin, Prebendary of Durham, of the Particulars of a Conversation as to the Royal Supremacy," in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I (hereafter CSPD: Charles I), 121: 33j
38. John Hackett, A Sermon Preached Before the King's Majesty at Whitehall on Friday the 22 March 1660 (London: 1660), 16
39. John Gauden, The Loosing of St. Peters Bands; Setting Forth the True Sense and Solution of the Covenant in Point of Conscience so far as it Relates to the Government of the Church by Episcopacy (London: 1660), 11
40. William Lucy, A Treatise of the Nature of a Minister in all its Offices, to which is annexed an Answer to Dr. Forbes Concerning the Necessity of Bishops (London: 1670), 231
41. On Hammond's views of episcopacy and their influence on the Restoration settlement, see John W. Packer, The Transformation of Anglicanism, with Special Reference to Henry Hammond, 1643-1660 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969), chap. 5
42. Henry Hammond, A Vindication of the Dissertations Concerning Episcopacy, from the Answers or Exceptions Offered against them by the London Ministers in Jus Divinium Ministerii Evangelicii (1654), in Works of the Reverend Learned Henry Hammond (London: 1684), 2: 11
43. Hammond, Vindication, 23-25
44. Benjamin Laney, A Sermon Preached before his Majesty at Whitehall, March 18, 1665 (London: 1665), 126, 137-38
45. Laney, Sermon ... March 18, 1665, 138
46. Sanderson, Episcopacy not Prejudicial, 27
47. Seth Ward, Against Resistance to Lawful Powers: A Sermon Preached at Whitehall November 5 1661 (London: 1661)
48. "Relation by John Cosin, Prebendary of Durham, of the Particulars of a Conversation as to the Royal Supremacy," Correspondence of John Cosin together with other Papers Illustrative of His Life and Times, ed. George Ornsby (Durham: Sutrees Society, 1869), 1: 148-49
49. Laney, Sermon . . . March 18, 1665, 123
50. J. A. I. Champion, The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and Its Enemies, 1660-1730 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 21, 63, 69, 77
51. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, 279
52. Thorndike, Just Weights and Measures, 24
53. Herbert Thorndike, A Letter Concerning the Present State of Religion, 4; DNB
54. Herbert Thorndike, A Discourse of the Forbearance or the Penalties which a Due Reformation Requires (London: 1670), 42-44
55. William Lucy, Observations, Censures, and Confutations of Notorious Errours in Mr. Hobbes, His Leviathan, and Other Books (London: 1663), 117
56. On the church's reaction to Hobbes's Erastianism, see Jeffrey R. Collins, Thomas Hobbes and the English Revolution (Ph.D. diss.. Harvard, 1999), chap. 8
57. Lucy, Observations, 180
58. Laney, Sermon... March 18, 1665, 142
59. Peter Heylyn, Cypriamus Anglicus, or the History of the Life and Death of the Most Revered and Renowned Prelate William, by divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (London: 1661), 1-2
60. Heylyn, Cyprianus, 36-37
61. See also Heylyn, Ecclesia Restaurata; or the History of the Reformation of the Church of England (London, 1660)
62. On which, see Irene Simon, Three Restoration Divines: Barrow, South, Tillotson (Paris: 1967), chap. 3
63. Edward Carpenter, Thomas Tenison: Archbishop of Canterbury, His Life and Times (London: SPCK, 1948)
64. W. M. Spellman, The Latitudinarians and the Church of England, 1660-1700 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993), chap. 2
65. Champion, Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken, 63, 92
66. R. E. Head, Royal Supremacy and the Trials of Bishops, 1558-1725 (London: SPCK, 1962), 72
67. Mark Goldie, "The Theory of Religious Intolerance in Restoration England," in From Persecution to Toleration: The Glorious Revolution and Religion in England, ed. Ole Peter Grell, Jonathan Israel, Nicholas Tyacke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 334
68. Henry Hammond, An Answer to the Animadversions on the Dissertations touching Ignatius's Epistle and the Episcopacy in them Asserted, in Works, 2:22
69. Bosher, Restoration Settlement, 87, 157, 217
70. Ronald Hutton, The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales, 1658-1667 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 166
71. The most convincing statement of this view of Clarendon is found in George Abernathy, "The English Presbyterians and the Stuart Restoration, 1648-1663, " American Philosophical Society Transactions 55 (1965): 91
72. Hyde, Religion and Policy, 3-4
73. Edward Hyde, Second Thoughts or, the Case of a Limited Toleration, Stated According to the Present Exigence of Affairs in Church and State (London: 1660), 5-6
74. R. W. Harris, Clarendon and the English Revolution (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983), 170-71
75. State Papers Collected by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (Oxford, 1773), 2: 308, 359
76. Quoted in B. H. G. Wormald, Clarendon: Politics, Historiography, and Religion, 1640-1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 310
77. Harris, Clarendon, 319
78. William Prynne, The First Tome of an Exact Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English Kings Supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (London: 1666); see the epistle dedicatory
79. Miller, Popery and Politics, 27, 57-66, 91-120
80. Victor D. Sutch, Gilbert Sheldon: Architect of Anglican Survival 1640-1675 (Hague: M. Nijoff, 1973), 92
81. Sutch, Sheldon, 98-99
82. John Miller, Charles II (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1991), 138, 190
83. Sutch, Sheldon, 103. Hutton, Charles II, 194, 294, 340-41
84. See Seaward, Making of the Restoration Settlement, 180-95
85. Green, Re-establishment of the Church, 22-23, demonstrates the reliance of the clergy on the support of the Anglican gentry
86. Head, Trials of Bishops, 50-57
87. Hutton, Charles II, 182
88. Walter Simon, The Restoration Episcopate (New York: Bookman, 1965), 69