After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II

ISBN-13: 9781138179639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 328 str.

John Miller

Opis

It is often argued that the political and religious fissures created by the wars divided English society irrevocably, as demonstrated by the later bitter conflict between the Whig and Tory parties. In this first study of Restoration England from the point of view of both rulers and the ruled, John Miller argues that although there was political conflict, Charles II's reign was not a continuation of the divisions of the civil wars.

Spis treści

Preface
Prologue
Part one: The working of politics
1 Rulers and ruled
A self-governing people
The law
2 Centre and localities
Policy- and decision-making
Local government
The means of coercion
3 Favour and reward
The mechanisms of patronage
The nature of rewards
4 News
The demand for news
Print
Handwritten news
Word of mouth
5 Popular politics
The nature of popular politics
Riot
Elections
6 Parliament
Representatives and represented
The business of Parliament
King and Parliament
Part two: Political division and conflict
7 The issues: I. Popery and arbitrary government
The ancient constitution
Anti-popery
Popery and arbitrary government
page vii
8 The issues: II. Church and Dissent 126
Before the Restoration 126
The Restoration settlement 132
Church and people 135
The nature of Dissent: Presbyterians 141
The nature of Dissent: Independents, Baptists and Quakers 144
Persecution 147
9 The frustrations of the Cavaliers, 1660-64 161
The liquidation of the past 161
The resentments of the Cavaliers 164
The machinery of coercion 169
The Corporation Act 171
The church settlement 174
The Cavaliers’ revenge? 181
10 Politics in flux, 1664—73 195
The second Dutch war and its aftermath 195
The Cabal 198
Church and Dissent 202
11 The rebirth of party, 1673-78 217
Danby and the direction of policy 217
Danby and the patronage system 222
Partisan divisions: Parliament 226
Partisan divisions: the localities 227
The politicization of the legal system 235
12 ‘Guelphs and Ghibellines’, 1679-81 245
A county divided 245
The political issues: an exclusion crisis? 249
Church and Dissent 254
The process of political division 256
Elections 257
Petitions and addresses 261
The law 263
13 The triumph of the Tories, 1681-85 272
Tory and Whig 272
Royal policy 277
Church and Dissent 279
The law 283
The towns 285
The general election of 1685 288
Abbreviations 296
Select bibliography 301
Glossary 307
Index

O autorze

John Miller is Professor of History at Queen Mary and Westfield College.