Henry Sacheverell

Standard Name: Sacheverell, Henry

Connections

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politics Sarah Lady Cowper
SLC took a keen and informed spectator's interest in local and national politics, but whereas her husband and his family were Whigs, she inclined rather towards the Tories. Reading Clarendon 's history of the civil...
politics Elinor James
EJ several times undertook fasts for political purposes. She walked to Windsor while fasting to deliver a political message. She fasted for fourteen days in support of Henry Sacheverell 's notorious High Church and Jacobite...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elinor James
This is her defence of the High-Church preacher Henry Sacheverell , who had got into trouble with a flagrantly Jacobite sermon preached on 5 November 1709. James calls him a Church of England angel in...

Timeline

1 December 1702: Daniel Defoe's The Shortest Way with the...

Writing climate item

1 December 1702

Daniel Defoe 's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters was anonymously published.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
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5 November 1709: Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon...

National or international item

5 November 1709

Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon at St Paul's Cathedral challenging the 1688 settlement of the succession.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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