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‘This Sad and Deplorable Condition’: An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Sufferings of Northern Clergy Families in the 1640s and 1650s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Anne Laurence
Anne Laurence*
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THE work of Richard Baxter, Edmund Calamy, and John Walker in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and of the indefatigable A. G. Matthews and Charles Surman in the twentieth, has illuminated the history of the sufferings of the clergy ejected from their livings in the 1640s and 1650s, and of those who lost their livings at the Restoration and in its aftermath. The history of their families, however, is much less well known. This essay is concerned with the chronicling of the sufferings and with the economic and psychological plight of the families of the clergy ejected in the 1640s and 1650s.

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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 12: Life and Thought in the Northern Church , 1999 , pp. 465 - 488
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1999 

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