Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Patrick Collinson
- 1 Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars
- 2 Elizabethan players and minstrels and the legislation of 1572 against retainers and vagabonds
- 3 Cleanliness and godliness in early modern England
- 4 Blood is their argument: men of war and soldiers in Shakespeare and others
- 5 Pragmatic readers: knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
- 6 The gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon: an enigma resolved and a mind explored
- 7 The Protestant idea of marriage in early modern England
- 8 James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
- 9 A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
- 10 The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
- 11 Popery, purity and Providence: deciphering the New England experiment
- 12 Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War: some West Riding fast sermons
- 13 Popular form, Puritan content? Two Puritan appropriations of the murder pamphlet from mid-seventeenth-century London
- 14 The two ‘National Churches’ of 1691 and 1829
- Bibliography of the published writings of Patrick Collinson, 1957–1992
- Index
9 - A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Patrick Collinson
- 1 Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars
- 2 Elizabethan players and minstrels and the legislation of 1572 against retainers and vagabonds
- 3 Cleanliness and godliness in early modern England
- 4 Blood is their argument: men of war and soldiers in Shakespeare and others
- 5 Pragmatic readers: knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
- 6 The gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon: an enigma resolved and a mind explored
- 7 The Protestant idea of marriage in early modern England
- 8 James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
- 9 A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
- 10 The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
- 11 Popery, purity and Providence: deciphering the New England experiment
- 12 Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War: some West Riding fast sermons
- 13 Popular form, Puritan content? Two Puritan appropriations of the murder pamphlet from mid-seventeenth-century London
- 14 The two ‘National Churches’ of 1691 and 1829
- Bibliography of the published writings of Patrick Collinson, 1957–1992
- Index
Summary
In the summer of 1639, Charles I called upon the resources of all three of his kingdoms to bring the recalcitrant Covenanters in Scotland to heel. Meanwhile, in deepest Norfolk, the antiquarian scholar Sir Henry Spelman was writing with enthusiastic insouciance to his friend, James Ussher (archbishop of Armagh) about ‘Justellus the learned Frenchman … [who] is about a great worke touching the describinge of the ancient Patriarchies in church government and comptinge (as I understande) that of our British Churches to be one of them.’
Spelman sought Ussher's ‘advice and approbacon’ in assisting Justellus. Two months later he received a very dusty reply in haughty Latin. Ussher's antiquarian enthusiasms clearly did not extend to allowing Ireland to be recognised as historically ‘subject to the Church of England’. Scotland, perhaps, said Ussher; but Ireland never.
Several historians have recently argued that the early Stuarts sought to anglicise (or in ecclesiastical terms anglicanise) all three of their kingdoms; that there was a drive towards a unity of the kingdoms through imposing a conformity to English ways. Conrad Russell, speaking for this group, has written that ‘Charles and Laud [sought] to construct a new programme of British uniformity. Since their major commitment was to those features of the English Church which were conspicuously absent in Ireland and Scotland, this programme for British uniformity inevitably turned into one for English hegemony.’
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- Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern BritainEssays in Honour of Patrick Collinson, pp. 209 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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