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Cambridge University Press 0521353130 - The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 Donald A. Spaeth Index More information INDEX Abingdon (Berks.), 90 ars moriendi, 222 Act for the Better Maintenance of Curates Articles of Religion, 5, 153, 177 (1714), 38 Ashe, Samuel, 40 Act for the Better Observation of the Lord’s Aske, Nathaniel, rector of Somerford Magna, Day (1676), 189 67, 159–60, 161, 162, 165, 173, 174–6, 177, Act for the More Easy Recovery of Small 194, 196 Tithes (1696), 73, 74, 77, 78–80, 136 atheism, 180 Act of Toleration (1689), 11, 61, 64, 66, 67, Atterbury, Francis, bishop of Rochester, 63 155, 157, 160, 171, 174, 201 Atworth, 54. See also Lewis, John Act of Uniformity (1662), 19, 57, 92, 111, 113, Aubrey, John, 134, 158, 204, 207, 209, 232 114, 115, 153, 155, 166 Avebury, 78, 79, 89, 92, 134–41, 148, 149, Addison, Joseph, 11, 12, 31, 39, 41, 83 150–1. See also White, John Addison, Launcelot, rector of Milston, 12, 15, Ayliffe, Sir George, 42–3 213 Aldbourne, 166, 171 Baily, William, of Horningsham, 168 Alderbury, 198 bands, parish, 252, 253 Alderbury hundred, 163 baptism, 195 Aldermaston (Berks.), 217 fees, 152, 198 Alderton, 92, 102 lay, 198 alehouses, 4, 125, 181, 188 of older child, 68, 160 and good fellowship, 57 of sick infant, 197, 198, 199 licensing, 106 private, 198 unlicensed, 20, 42 social significance of, 198, 200–1 use by clergy, 33, 50, 122–3, 124, 126 Baptists, 158, 197, 202, 242 Allington, 67, 68, 69, 190, 192 Barber, Charles, vicar of Combe Bissett, 72 Amesbury, 68, 213 Barcroft, John, 167 Amesbury deanery, 65, 67, 113 Bath, 250 ancient music movement, 244 Bath and Wells, diocese of, 210 Anderson, William, 208 Bath, William, vicar of Purton, 79 Anderston (Dorset), 217 Baxter, Richard, 6 Anglicanism, 7, 9, 57, 155, 173, 181, 200, 254 Baydon, 18, 50, 104 Anne, Queen, 10, 11, 14 Bayntun family, 43, 92 Ansty, 204, 207–8, 209, 210 Bayntun, Sir Edward, 46–7, 92 anthems, 231, 238, 242, 245, 246, 248, 250 beauty of holiness, 241 anticlericalism, 2, 14–19, 21, 22, 122, 155, 202, Beckhampton, in Avebury, 136 254 Bedford, Arthur, 244 and tithes, 133, 142, 148, 149, 152, 154 Bedfordshire, 229 Arches, Court of, 81, 87, 205 Berkshire, 64, 206, 210, 229 Arians, 232 Berkshire, earl of, 42, 46, 131 Arminianism, 187, 223 Berwick Bassett, 118 Arnold, Mr, 230 Berwick St James, 206, 235, 245 270 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521353130 - The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 Donald A. Spaeth Index More information Index 271 Berwick St John, 165 on pastoral care, 53, 108, 134, 152, 216 Best, Geoffrey, 32 reforms of, 13, 39, 50, 254 Bevan, Caleb, curate of Westwood, 209 on sermons, 53 Biddestone St Peter, 34 and SPCK, 229 Billings, Robert, vicar of Great Bedwyn, 33, suspension of minister, 122 208, 210, 213 visits to parishes, 108 Bishop’s Cannings, 232, 251 Bushnell, Walter, vicar of Box, 74, 125–7 Bishop’s Lavington, 160 Butler, John, rector of Lydiard Millicent, 124, Bishopston, 231, 244 145 Bisse, Thomas, chancellor of Hereford diocese, 243 Caddington (Beds.), 183, 184, 186 Bland, Gervase, curate of Knooke, 109–12, 116, Cadenham House, 87 117, 179, 184, 196 Calamy, Edmund, 170 Blecheley (Bucks.), 202 Calne, 161, 163, 171, 176, 238, 242, 248, 251 Blewberry (Berks.), 217 Calstone Wellington, 116, 225, 231, 243 Boscombe, 179 canons, 63, 117, 122, 181, 211, 216 Bowles, William, vicar of Bremhill, 252 Canterbury Box, 40, 74, 92, 228, 232, 237, 243. See also archbishop of, 205, 211 Bushnell, Walter; Millard, George archdiocese of, 14 Boyton, 159, 200, 239, 248 Carey, Francis Henry, rector of Brinkworth, 17, Bradford-on-Avon, 54, 116, 157, 231, 251, 257 40–3, 58 Bradford, William, of Turners Puddle (Dorset), Carey, John, 43 202 Carlisle, diocese of, 62 Bramshaw, 209 Castle Cary (Som.), 249 Bratton, 72 Castle Combe, 239, 248 Bray, Thomas, 228, 240, 247 catechism, 1, 92, 109, 151, 179, 180, 187, 189, Bremhill, 17, 47, 81, 92, 95, 106, 252. See also 190–1, 193, 226, 231 Foxham; Tounson, John Catholics, 158, 171, 215 Brinkworth. See Carey, Francis Henry Caversham (Oxon.), 186 Brinsden, John (the younger), 138, 139 Cennick, John, 258 Brinsden (or Brunsdon), John, vicar of chalk country, 13, 100 Winterbourne Monkton, 45, 201, 212 Chambers, Humphrey, 126, 179, 180 Bristol, 11, 53, 213, 227 Champion, Justin, 16 Broad Chalke, 36, 201, 204 chancel, 54, 120, 239, 248 Broad Hinton, 231 Chancery Court of Equity, 75, 77, 89, 137 Brokenborough, 197 Chapel Royal, 242 Bromham, 47, 163 chapelries, 27, 39, 110, 116, 117, 189, 196, 255 Broughton Gifford, 55, 142, 167 Chappell, John, minister of West Harnham, Brown, John, vicar of Newcastle, 241, 250, 251 115 Brownjohn, John, 153 Chardstock (Dorset), 53 Burbage, 34, 130, 158, 234, 236 charity schools, 92, 225, 228, 230, 232, 258 burial, 195, 196–7, 199, 214 Charlton, 17, 177, 197, 199 dispute over, 110, 197, 199–200 Charminster (Dorset), 146, 152 fees, 152, 196 cheese country, 13, 41, 100, 157, 158, 174 of nonconformist, 169, 201 Chicklade, 37, 69, 182, 189 of unbaptised infant, 198, 202 Child, Edward, 47 social significance of, 197, 200–1 Chilton (Berks.), 50, 89–90, 102 Burn, Richard, 206 Chippenham, 157, 163 Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury, 13, 43, Chiseldon, 128. See also Twittee, Thomas 114, 122, 139, 151, 170, 260 Chitterne All Saints, 110, 116 advice to avoid alehouses, 57 Chitterne St Mary, 37 bias of, 30 choirs, 232, 233, 236, 244, 250, 251, 253, 259 on church courts, 63, 69 support by congregations, 249 on clerical societies, 56 suppression of, 237–40 critic of clergy, 8, 30–1, 52, 108, 172, 255 Christ Church, Oxford, 41 denial that Church is in danger, 15 Christian Malford, 230, 231, 235 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521353130 - The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 Donald A. Spaeth Index More information 272 Index church isolation of, 10, 27, 51, 55, 149, 155, 257 attacked, 14, 21, 25 as JPs, 9, 43, 49 fabric, 65–6 as litigious, 143, 150 rates, 176 nonconformist, 114 church courts, 7, 8, 13, 24, 28, 29, 59–74, 87, opposition to dissent, 158–60 121, 122, 141, 160, 173, 204, 213 and parish government, 19, 42, 47–8, 54–5, correctional business, 59, 61, 87 58 decline, 59–74, 77, 80, 81, 174 pastoral care of, 54 failure of reform, 63 praise for, 18, 111, 117 ineffectiveness, 62, 80–1, 161, 255 as profession, 10, 56, 136 instance business, 60, 61 as scholars, 49–53, 109, 257 and nonconformity, 62 sociability, 54–6 promoted office business, 60 as social group, 56 relative effectiveness, 164 social origins, 48–9, 119 unpopularity, 61, 133 state of mind, 33, 57, 131, 140 Church of England status, 31, 43–9, 140 attitudes towards, 29 stereotypes of, 30, 108, 122, 213, 255 defensiveness, 260 troublesome, 28, 120, 124, 129, 130, 136, dissociation from, 3–5, 7 139, 149, 175 interpretations of, 8 Clergy Club of Melksham, 55–6, 123, 229, 257 and state, 83, 86, 91, 164 clerical diaries, 25–6 support for, 4, 6, 106, 109, 254 clerical neglect, 111 churchwardens, 17, 100–1, 233, 249 clerical poverty, 31–4, 37, 152, 208, 213 election of, 118 and anticlericalism, 31 failure to present, 29, 63, 65, 67–8, 69, 71, 72, clerical presentments, 111, 117, 166 110, 164–5, 180 unpopularity of, 117–18, 166 failure to present nonconformists, 21, 156, clerical scandal, 28, 33, 50, 57, 98, 102–3, 111, 162, 164 121–32, 152, 153, 167, 175, 177, 198, 206, fitness of, 21, 94, 100–1 208 neglect of, 110, 178 and contempt for clergy, 124 nonconformist, 119, 165–6, 168 damage to worship, 19, 109, 124, 125, 126, refusal to serve, 165 132 churchwardens’ accounts, 4, 181, 251 and disputes over money, 125 churchwardens’ presentments, 18, 24, 81, 88, offensive to congregation, 19, 123, 129 109, 114–17, 188, 195, 216 clerical societies, 55–6, 229–30 of clergy, 70 clericalism, 10, 16, 30, 172, 247, 257, 258 civil law, 89 Clifton, Thomas, rector of Boyton, 239, 248 Civil Wars. See Commonwealth Clyffe Pypard, 100, 118, 196 Clarendon Code, 173 Codford St Mary, 69, 192 Clark, J. C. D., 1, 83, 86 Cole, Sir Arthur, 58 Clark, John, 176 Cole, William, of Blecheley (Bucks.), 202 Clark, Samuel, 232 Colerne, 102–3, 115, 153, 230. See also Latimer, Clarke, John, 196 Thomas Clarke, John, dean of Salisbury, 238 Collingbourne Ducis, 34 clergy Collingbourne Kingston, 165 abused, 119, 167 Combe Bissett, 72 assaulted, 16, 21, 42 Commonwealth, 62, 65, 69, 87, 92–3, 110, 125, avoidance of alehouses, 122–3 153, 158, 169, 173, 184, 193, 242, 257 contempt for, 15, 16, 18, 30, 50, 108 communion, 4, 18, 47, 111, 123, 152, 176–88, defensiveness, 57, 172, 258 259 education, 30, 51–3 dangers of, 184, 186, 187 importance of, 17–19, 197, 202, 203, 214, and disputes, 110, 134 217, 224, 254 failure to receive, 8, 17, 20, 29, 124, 151, 162, incomes, 13, 31, 34–40, 54, 136, 140, 145, 150 170, 173, 174, 180, 182, 191, 223 inflexibility, 10, 200, 202, 253, 257 fitness for, 176, 184, 187, 194 insecurity of, 127, 140 fitness of celebrant, 173, 177 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521353130 - The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740 Donald A. Spaeth Index More information Index 273 frequency of, 54, 116, 181–3 de Burgh, Lady Catherine, 91 as index of religiosity, 188 de Coverley, Sir Roger, 1, 12, 83, 91, 106 preparation for, 183, 185–6, 230 Deane, Salathiel, 119, 166 reluctance to receive from unfit minister, 34, death, 220, 222, 223, 259 175, 176, 182 deathbed, 215, 217, 218–20 for the sick, 214, 216, 217, 218 Declaration