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Papist-Protestant - Puritan: English Religious Taxonomy 1565-1665*

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It is wel knowne ... that in the realme of Ingland at this day, there are three different and opposite bodies of religion that are of the most bulk and that do carry most sway and power, which three bodies are knowne commonly in Ingland by the names of Protestants, Puritanes, and Papists, though the latter two do not acknowledge these names, and for the same cause would I not use them neither, if it were not only for cleerness and brevities sake, for that, as often I have protested, my meaning is not to give offence to any side or partye.

The idea for this paper came to me a dozen years ago while re-reading Will Herberg’s Protestant - Catholic - Jew, subtitled ‘An Essay in American Religious Sociology’. Mr Herberg made extensive use of survey data which, of course, are not available to the student of Elizabethan-Stuart England, but some of his most pertinent insights came from his analysis of manners of contemporary American speech. I began at that time to note and classify the ways in which Englishmen of this period described religious beliefs and attitudes. The conviction slowly formed that terminology not only flowed from religious thought and belief but in its turn influenced religious thought.

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(Research for this paper was supported by grants from the Society of Religion in Higher Education and from Loyola University, New Orleans.)

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53 Thomas Hughes (see n. 29 supra) 1, 238-9•

54 Apello Caesar em (see n. 18 supra), p. 48.

55 An End to Controversie (1654: Wing B. 1510), p. 5.

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58 A declaration of true causes (1592: STC 10005/A&R 844), p. 10.

59 Brief Discourse, p. 39v .

60 Bk. 2, ch. 2 of his unfinished Of the Life and martyrdom of Father Edmond Campian’: Stonyhurst Archives, Greene’s Collectanea, p. 1.

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66 See supr. n. 25.

67 Hastings, An Apologie or Defence (1600: STC 12928), p. 13. The Supplication of certain Masse Priests (1604: STC 14430), sigi. D 3v.

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71 Times Literary Supplement, 4 September 1953, p. 563. Cf. Only two religions were recognized in Elizabethan England, and “Anglican” was not one of them’: Collinson, P., The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (Berkeley, 1962), p. 55.Google Scholar

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76 The Plea of the Innocent (1602: STC 18541), p. 4. See his documentation on the religious illiteracy of Englishmen, pp. 219f.

77 A Pithie Exhortation, p. 66 and p. 91 (second pagination). On the contemporary sense of the term ‘atheist’ see my Papist Pamphleteers (n. 28 supra), ch. 7.

78 Diary of John Manningham (ed. Bruce, John), Camden Society, Vol. 99 O.S. (London, 1868), p. 168.Google Scholar

79 Gordon Albion (see n. 38 supr.), p. 13n. Compare the 1618 enumeration by the Venetian ambassador, Cal S.P. Venetian, 1617-19, p. 383f.

80 Floyd, , God and the King (A&R 325), pp. 139-40Google Scholar; Overthrow (see supr. n. 64), p. 69. Reference to King’s 32 Lectures on Jonas (STC 14976).

81 See Parker, T. M., ‘Arminianism and Laudianism’, in Studies in Church History 1 (ed. Duggan, Chas. & Dugmore, C. W., London, 1964).Google Scholar

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83 Cited in Thompson, Faith, Magna Charta (Minneapolis, 1948), p. 352.Google Scholar

84 A. Ar., The Practice of Princes (1630: STC 722), p. 5.

85 The Plots Revealed (1643: Wing P. 2604), p. 3.

86 A Key for Catholicks (1659: B. 2395), p. 326f. Rushworth, prints this letter in his Historical Collections (London, 1731), 1, pp. 474-6Google Scholar. Baxter and Laud’s enemies seem to have missed the Papist production, An Apologie of English Arminianism (1634: STC 18333)• This seems to have been a work written by a don who had been converted to Arminianism and then to Rome. Its purpose seems to have been to win over other Protestants to the halfway house of Arminianism.

87 1658: Wing S. 6229.

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93 Gardiner, S. R., History of England, 9, p. 225.Google Scholar

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95 Economic Problems of the Church (Oxford, 1956), p. xii. See also his ‘The definition of a Puritan’, ch. 1 of Society and Puritanism (n. 3 supra).

96 The Protestant Mind (see n. 119 supra).

97 The Copie of a Double Letter (1582?; STC 888).

98 Doleman (see n. 1 supra) II, 242. Cf. II, 244. An anonymous Puritan author in 1606 points out with pride that ‘the Papistes esteem the Puritans to be their chiefest opposites’. He cites Doleman, Parsons and Bristowe. (Survey, see n. 63 supra, p. 10f.).

99 STC 3516, tp. In his foreword he speaks of the ‘odious and vile name of Puritans’. There were further edd. in 1640 (STC 3517) and 1641 (Wing B. 4158). See also ( Ley, John) A Discourse concerning Puritans (1641: L., Wing 1876)Google Scholar. The author, an ardent Puritan, writes from the point of view of a moderate Protestant and answers objections to Puritanism. See his definitions of Puritans on pp. 11, 58.

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103 British Museum, Harleian MS. 1284. Cf. STC 24962.

104 Times Literary Supplement, 15 July 1955, p. 398. Review of William P. Holden, Anti-Puritan Satire.

105 Ibid.

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112 See Clancy (n. 28 supra), pp. 17ff.

113 This was included in James’ rebuke of Dr John Reynolds on the second day of the Hampton Court Conference, January 1604. Some years later a Scot referred to it as ‘that unkoth motto!’ See Collinson, P., ‘Episcopacy and Reform’, in Studies in Church History, Vol. 3 (ed. Cuming, G. J., Leyden, 1966), p. 91.Google Scholar

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116 STC 19352: 1606. Preface No. 6.

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121 A sermon preached at Paules Cross by a late reverend bishop (1653: Wing S. 2631), quoted by Madure, Millar, The Pauľs Cross Sermons (Toronto, 1958), p. 248.Google Scholar

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124 Appello Caesarem, p. 112. See also p. 48, where he declares his intention of defending the Church of England against ‘those Brethren in evil, Papists and Puritans ... who looking and running two severall waies, doe like Sampson’s Foxes joine together in the taile’. He told a friend it was his duty to ‘stand in the gap against Puritanism and Popery, the Scylla and Charybdis of ancient piety.’ Cited by Chadwick, Owen, The Reformation (Harmondsworth, 1964), p. 228.Google Scholar

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139 The Christian Moderator, Second part (1652: Wing A. 4247), p. 20f.

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