Dissenters

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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
EW published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a Puritan devotional pamphlet which attacks both Catholics and sectaries .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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
Mary's other grandmother spoke Yorkshire dialect like her husband, and was conservative in dress (wearing a lace net on her hair), but eclectic in religion, attending church and chapel alternately.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press.
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It was from this...
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.
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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
In a letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, MT describes the house of her childhood as one of violent Dissent and Radicalism.
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Gilding
EG was born English and apparently white. Her somewhat obscure situation in life, with little leisure, probably indicates her membership in the lower middle class, and her marrying a Dissenter probably indicates that she was...
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.
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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.
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Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott.
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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.

March 1686: James II's General Pardon and Royal Warrant...

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March 1686

James II 's General Pardon and Royal Warrant released another batch of persecuted Quakers from prison.

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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