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Seventeenth-Century Scribal Culture and “A Dialogue Between King James and King William”
76 THE JOURNAL OF THE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SCRIBAL CULTURE AND “A DIALOGUE BETWEEN KING JAMES AND KING WILLIAM” BY ERIN KELLY The latter portion of the seventeenth century saw the emergence of a number of institutions and practices whose existence we may take for granted in the modern era: the two-party parliamentary system pitted Whigs against Tories, the Royal Society formalized many aspects of empirical science, and the Stationers’ Company lost their monopoly over publication rights, effectively paving the way for modern copyright law. These changes emerged out of a tumultuous political context: England had been plunged into civil war in the middle of the century, and even the restoration of the monarchy did not entirely stifle those in parliament who opposed the monarch’s absolute power. The power struggle between the king and Parliament had a direct impact on England’s book industry: the first Cavalier Parliament of 1662 – only two years after the Restoration – revived the Licensing Act in an attempt to exercise power over what material was allowed to be printed. Through the act, the king could appoint a licenser to oversee the publication of books who could deny a license to any books thought to be objectionable.1 Roger L’Estrange, an arch-royalist, became Surveyor of the Presses, and later Licenser of the Press, and zealously exercised the power of these positions by hunting out unauthorized printing presses, suppressing seditious works, and censoring anti-monarchical texts.2 This was a dramatic change from the state of affairs prior to the Restoration, which had seen an explosion in the printing trade, when Parliament ostensibly exercised control over licensing, but did so through inconsistent laws and lax enforcement.3 The struggle between Parliament and the monarchy thus played itself out in part through a struggle for control over the censorship of the press. -
Preface Introduction: the Seven Bishops and the Glorious Revolution
Notes Preface 1. M. Barone, Our First Revolution, the Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers, New York, 2007; G. S. de Krey, Restoration and Revolution in Britain: A Political History of the Era of Charles II and the Glorious Revolution, London, 2007; P. Dillon, The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World, London, 2006; T. Harris, Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720, London, 2006; S. Pincus, England’s Glorious Revolution, Boston MA, 2006; E. Vallance, The Glorious Revolution: 1688 – Britain’s Fight for Liberty, London, 2007. 2. G. M. Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688–1689, Oxford, 1950, p. 90. 3. W. A. Speck, Reluctant Revolutionaries, Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688, Oxford, 1988, p. 72. Speck himself wrote the petition ‘set off a sequence of events which were to precipitate the Revolution’. – Speck, p. 199. 4. Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688–1689, p. 87. 5. J. R. Jones, Monarchy and Revolution, London, 1972, p. 233. Introduction: The Seven Bishops and the Glorious Revolution 1. A. Rumble, D. Dimmer et al. (compilers), edited by C. S. Knighton, Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne Preserved in the Public Record Office, vol. iv, 1705–6, Woodbridge: Boydell Press/The National Archives, 2006, p. 1455. 2. Great and Good News to the Church of England, London, 1705. The lectionary reading on the day of their imprisonment was from Two Corinthians and on their release was Acts chapter 12 vv 1–12. 3. The History of King James’s Ecclesiastical Commission: Containing all the Proceedings against The Lord Bishop of London; Dr Sharp, Now Archbishop of York; Magdalen-College in Oxford; The University of Cambridge; The Charter- House at London and The Seven Bishops, London, 1711, pp. -
Sowerby on Repealers
This is an author-produced draft version of an article published in Past and Present, no. 215 (2012), pp. 85–123, which is accessible online at http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/215/1/85.short?rss=1 FORGETTING THE REPEALERS: RELIGIOUS TOLERATION AND HISTORICAL AMNESIA IN LATER STUART ENGLAND* by Scott Sowerby The erasure of the repealers from the historical record began with the failure to give the group a name. The men and women who rallied together for religious toleration in England in 1687 saw no need to name themselves. They presented themselves as a large group of concerned citizens. Their common cause was to enact a new ‘Magna Carta for liberty of conscience’ that would include the repeal of the laws that penalized both Protestant nonconformity and Roman Catholicism.1 They were visionaries. They claimed that their program had universal benefits and was not designed to aid a mere clique or party. They thought of themselves as those who were ‘zealous for Liberty of * I am grateful to Evan Haefeli, Mark Kishlansky, Owen Stanwood and the anonymous reviewers of this journal for their comments on this essay. Noah McCormack provided several helpful references and many useful suggestions. The essay has also benefited from the comments of those who heard an earlier version of it read at the Anglo-American Conference hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. 1 The quotation is from William Penn and the slogan appears to have been his invention, although others subsequently adopted it. See [William Penn], The Great and Popular Objection against the Repeal of the Penal Laws & Tests Briefly Stated and Consider’d (London, 1688, Wing P1298A), 6, 8, 10, 22; Scott Sowerby, ‘Of Different Complexions: Religious Diversity and National Identity in James II’s Toleration Campaign,’ English Historical Review, cxxiv (2009), 39–43, 48–9. -
Vauban!S Siege Legacy In
VAUBAN’S SIEGE LEGACY IN THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION, 1702-1712 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Jamel M. Ostwald, M.A. The Ohio State University 2002 Approved by Dissertation Committee: Professor John Rule, Co-Adviser Co-Adviser Professor John Guilmartin, Jr., Co-Adviser Department of History Professor Geoffrey Parker Professor John Lynn Co-Adviser Department of History UMI Number: 3081952 ________________________________________________________ UMI Microform 3081952 Copyright 2003 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ____________________________________________________________ ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road PO Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 ABSTRACT Over the course of Louis XIV’s fifty-four year reign (1661-1715), Western Europe witnessed thirty-six years of conflict. Siege warfare figures significantly in this accounting, for extended sieges quickly consumed short campaign seasons and prevented decisive victory. The resulting prolongation of wars and the cost of besieging dozens of fortresses with tens of thousands of men forced “fiscal- military” states to continue to elevate short-term financial considerations above long-term political reforms; Louis’s wars consumed 75% or more of the annual royal budget. Historians of 17th century Europe credit one French engineer – Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban – with significantly reducing these costs by toppling the impregnability of 16th century artillery fortresses. Vauban perfected and promoted an efficient siege, a “scientific” method of capturing towns that minimized a besieger’s casualties, delays and expenses, while also sparing the town’s civilian populace. -
Glorious Revolution"
Medical History, 1990, 34: 1-26. PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES AFTER THE "GLORIOUS REVOLUTION" by HAROLD J. COOK* Just over three hundred years ago, William of Orange seized the British crown for himself and his wife Mary Stuart from his uncle and father-in-law, James II. In a virtually bloodless take-over, William's coup placed firm Protestants on a throne that had been occupied by a Catholic monarch ruling in an increasingly autocratic manner without Parliament and in contempt of the Established Church-and this at a time when the absolutism of the His Most Catholic Majesty, Louis XIV, was at its height. William's was a brilliant military venture, which prevented a repetition of the French-English union of the early 1670s that had brought about their war against the United Provinces in the "disaster year" for the Dutch, 1672. When, at the invitation of a small group ofEnglish noblemen, William landed on the south-west coast ofEngland in early November 1688, at about the time of his birthday, his wedding anniversary, and the annual celebration of James I's escape from the Gunpowder Plot, in the centenary year of the Armada, and with yet another Protestant wind at his back blowing the English fleet into port and him across the Channel, Providence seemed to be with him indeed. Gradually, English gentlemen and aristocrats rode into his camp, and as more and more of the King's own officers and ministers defected, James panicked and fled to France. By late February 1689 the revolutionary settlement had decreed William and Mary joint Majesties ofEngland, Scotland, France, and Ireland; they were crowned in April. -
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Schröder on Barducci, 'Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613 -1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought'
H-Albion Schröder on Barducci, 'Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613 -1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought' Review published on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 Marco Barducci. Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613 -1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 224 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-875458-9. Reviewed by Peter Schröder (Department of History, University College London) Published on H- Albion (June, 2018) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer College) Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51528 This is a valid and important study. Marco Barducci scrutinizes the multifarious and not always straightforward reception of Hugo Grotius’s ideas and arguments in the context of the English “century of revolution.” The book is organized in a systematic way and divided into three parts: 1) “State, Resistance and Government,” 2) “State, Church and Religion,” and 3) “Property and Empire.” This approach has the main advantage of arranging the study according to the principal Grotian ideas various English authors derived from his texts. It allows enough flexibility to discuss the competing and even contradictory arguments which were drawn from Grotius. A certain tension runs through this analysis, because the time span of a hundred years means that Barducci has to engage with the considerably different political and hence argumentative contexts that influenced the reception and use of Grotius’s thought. But this almost inevitable shortcoming is more than compensated by Barducci’s insightful investigation of the various “processes of re-adaptation of [Grotius’s] ideas beyond the original context” (p. -
The Triple Failure of Boileau's Ode Sur La Prise De Namur
L’É RUDIT FRANCO -ESPAGNOL , VOLUME 4, FALL 2013 The Triple Failure of Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur James F. Gaines University of Mary Washington Sharing the duties of royal historiographer with his friend Racine since 1677, Nicolas Boileau took on the task of documenting the advent of Louis XIV’s new world order. In specific literary terms, this involved reviving the process of translatio imperii celebrated by such classical authors as Vergil during the construction of the Roman Empire. One might expect Boileau to relish the honor of such a heritage and to do it justice by producing a prolific body of writing. Conversely, his failure to produce such a legacy is quite stunning. A key to the paucity of Boileau’s efforts to construct a political foundation for the absolutist state may be found in the difficulties he encountered with his Ode sur la prise de Namur . Recent efforts by scholars such as Richard Maber and Tatiana Smoliarova have done much to set the problems of Boileau’s Ode in a wider aesthetic context, and to understand his framing of the poetics of the piece better. It is also important, at the same time, to emphasize how closely the poetic and formal aspirations of Boileau were integrated with a changing historical and political context and to appreciate that the power of satire against the Ode reflects a cultural awareness that goes far beyond what some defensive eighteenth-century French critics dismissed as merely ferocious jealousy of their civilisation perfectionnée . It is clear that Boileau’s Ode , composed of seventeen dizains arranged in a rime croisée followed by a rime plate and a rime embrassée , was in widespread circulation by the end of 1693. -
United Svc Jnl 1832-3
UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL AND Naval and Military Magazine LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN BY RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET Editorial Note The following Record of the Services of the Twenty-Third Regiment, or Royal Welsh Fusileers has been extracted from the United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, published in 1832 and 1833. The issues in which it was published are: Issue Date Pages 48 November 1832 414 to 420 49 December 1832 565 to 571 50 January 1833 130 to 136 51 February 1833 273 to 280 It is the earliest known printed history of the Regiment, and was used by Richard Cannon in his Historical Record of The Twenty-Third Regiment, or The Royal Welsh Fusiliers; containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent Services to 1850 , published by Parker, Furnivall & Parker in 1850. Cannon, writing over 15 years after 1832, made some corrections to the text. He also brought the history up to date. The next history, published in 1889 – Major Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring’s Historical Record of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, late the Twenty-Third Regiment, or Royal Welsh Fusiliers (The Prince of Wales̓ s Own Royal Regiment of Welsh Fuzeliers); containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent Services to 1889 , Hatchards, 1889 – copied Cannon up to 1850. This US Journal history therefore forms the basis of the 1850 and 1889 histories. Without a detailed check, it is not known what changes were made to the 1832–33 text. The text which follows is not a completely accurate copy of the original. -
The Life and Times of Francois-Henri De Montmorency-Boutteville, Duke
King William’s Nemesis - The Life and Times of Francois-Henri de Montmorency- Boutteville, Duke of Luxemburg, Marshal of France Synopsis In a purple passage in his once famous History of England, Lord Macaulay referred to ‘the hunch backed dwarf who urged forward the fiery onset of France, and the asthmatic skeleton who covered the slow retreat of England’. The words are part of a florid description of the battle of Landen which took place in July 1693, and resulted in a French triumph. The victorious commander was the Marshal-Duke of Luxemburg, the subject of this book, the vanquished was William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the United Provinces, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. The preceding two decades had seen many battles contested by armies led by the two, and the title above implies the usual outcome. In total, they were directly opposed in nearly a dozen major engagements, and King William never achieved a victory, though such was his resilience that he was never forced to leave the field for long. He was a towering figure of his age, changing British and European history not least by checking the ambitions of Louis XIV, but it was his fondest wish to be remembered as a great general; he is not, largely because he so often came up against one who was, namely the Marshal-Duke of Luxemburg. This is an account of Luxemburg’s long and almost entirely successful military career, which began in the train of another great French general, the Prince of Condé, in 1647 and ended in 1694 with a well conducted campaign of manoeuvre, a few months before his sudden death. -
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The Triple Failure of Boileau's Ode Sur La Prise De Namur
L’É RUDIT FRANCO -ESPAGNOL , VOLUME 4, FALL 2013 The Triple Failure of Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur James F. Gaines University of Mary Washington Sharing the duties of royal historiographer with his friend Racine since 1677, Nicolas Boileau took on the task of documenting the advent of Louis XIV’s new world order. In specific literary terms, this involved reviving the process of translatio imperii celebrated by such classical authors as Vergil during the construction of the Roman Empire. One might expect Boileau to relish the honor of such a heritage and to do it justice by producing a prolific body of writing. Conversely, his failure to produce such a legacy is quite stunning. A key to the paucity of Boileau’s efforts to construct a political foundation for the absolutist state may be found in the difficulties he encountered with his Ode sur la prise de Namur . Recent efforts by scholars such as Richard Maber and Tatiana Smoliarova have done much to set the problems of Boileau’s Ode in a wider aesthetic context, and to understand his framing of the poetics of the piece better. It is also important, at the same time, to emphasize how closely the poetic and formal aspirations of Boileau were integrated with a changing historical and political context and to appreciate that the power of satire against the Ode reflects a cultural awareness that goes far beyond what some defensive eighteenth-century French critics dismissed as merely ferocious jealousy of their civilisation perfectionnée . It is clear that Boileau’s Ode , composed of seventeen dizains arranged in a rime croisée followed by a rime plate and a rime embrassée , was in widespread circulation by the end of 1693.