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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Underhill | This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic
mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant
beliefs and practices, and finally to... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Warren | |
Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent
and specifically Presbyterianism
, but returns to the Church of England
, saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Bury | EB
was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican
, which after the Restoration became Dissenting
) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and... |
Occupation | Hannah More | Bere had already preached against Young; he now demanded his dismissal. At this point, unfortunately, Patty More
's journal of the period ends. Young was encouraging his adult pupils to extemporary prayer—something strongly disapproved by... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Savage | SS
was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity
in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the... |
Cultural formation | Margiad Evans | ME
wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her... |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Tatlock | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, fervently Evangelical and in sympathy with Dissenters
, who nevertheless continued to attend or at least embrace the sacraments of the Anglican church
. Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock. Tatlock, Eleanor. Poems. S. Burton. 2: 278 |
Cultural formation | Celia Fiennes | CF
's family were upper-class, linked to the nobility: distinguished anti-monarchists and dissenters
. She took her religion seriously: at the sight of a monument to Fulke Greville
which boasted his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney |
Cultural formation | Mary Taylor | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Gilding | |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
was an English middle-class dissenter
or more properly Independent
. Marshall, Madeleine Forell. “Review of Paula Backscheider on Elizabeth Singer Rowe”. Scriblerian, Vol. 48-49 , No. 2, 1, pp. 159-61. 160 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott. 121 |
Timeline
March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...
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March 1673
Charles II
withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters
and Roman Catholics
.
1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...
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1676
A tally taken by Church of England
clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics
and Dissenters
in England and Wales.
4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...
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4 April 1687
James II
's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics
and Dissenting
sects; but it remained in force only...
8 June 1688: The seven bishops (the Archbishop of Canterbury...
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8 June 1688
The seven bishops (the Archbishop of Canterbury and six others) were imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusal to proclaim and distribute James II
's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience.
11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...
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11 May 1792
Fox
again proposed in the House of Commons
that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters
; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
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8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
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