Prayer book and people in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of illustrations = xi
• List of tables = xiii
• Acknowledgements = xiv
• Abbreviations = xvi
• 1 Introduction : the good, the bad, and the godly? The laity and the established church = 1
• The study of conformity and its problems = 1
• Historiographical issues = 5
• Church courts and petitions for the church = 19
• How 'common' was Common Prayer? = 24
• 2 Conformity and the church courts, c. 1570-1642 = 31
• Church courts = 31
• Going to church = 36
• Mixed motives = 70
• Evidence of support for the conforming clergy = 76
• The social spread of conformity = 80
• Conclusion : conformity and the church courts = 81
• 3 The rhetoric of conformity, c. 1640-1642 = 83
• Provincial petitions for the national church = 83
• Campaigning in the provinces = 88
• Social spread = 98
• Episcopalianism and anti-Laudianism = 99
• Worship according to the Book of Common Prayer = 113
• 'The common enemy of Rome' = 124
• Issues of authority and power = 126
• 4 Sir Thomas Aston and the campaign for the established church, c. 1640-1642 = 130
• The worldly concerns of a Cheshire conformist = 130
• An activist for the Church of England = 137
• An apologist for the Church of England = 156
• From local concerns to a national cause = 175
• War and death = 178
• 5 Parishioners, petitions, and the Prayer Book in the 1640s = 181
• Issues and sources = 181
• Tilston = 199
• Frodsham = 204
• Wilmslow = 210
• Marbury = 217
• Middlewich = 220
• Conformity and its characteristics = 224
• 6 Conclusion : laity, clergy and conformity in post-Reformation England = 228
• Conformity and 'anti-clericalism' = 228
• Conformity and the 'godly' = 232
• A Restoration postscript : conformity and 'Anglicanism' = 233
• Appendix 1 Petitions for the Book of Common Prayer and episcopacy, 1640-1642 = 238
• Appendix 2 Subscribing Cheshire parishes and townships, 1641 = 248
• Appendix 3 Five subscribing Cheshire communities = 254
• Bibliography = 276
• Index = 295