Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World

MacCoinnich, Aonghas

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“…This was an approach commensurate with contemporary understandings of civility, which stressed the importance of honest labour in warding off immoral temptation, and moreover it had a clear Scottish precedent in the form of James VI's abortive plantation of Lewis at the start of the seventeenth century. 61 Cromwell reputedly toyed with the idea of dispatching forty boys, the sons of prominent Highlanders, to be educated in England in 'al trades and callings and then sent hom agayn', an idea echoing James VI's 1609 agreement with west-Highland chiefs known as the 'Statutes of Iona' and clearly intended as a means of both expanding the Highlands' economic profile and entrenching civilised commercial values. 62 This remained merely an idea, but an interest in stimulating economic development persisted.…”

Section: Affecting Godly Reformationmentioning

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Civility, order and the highlands in Cromwellian Britain

Kennedy¹

2018

Innes Review

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Above all, the republican regime that governed first England, and then the entirety of the British Isles in the 1650s viewed itself as ‘godly’. This was a concept with deep roots in English puritanism, and it conditioned the domestic aims and policies of the Cromwellian state. We know that the Commonwealth made some effort to export ‘godliness’ to Scotland, but little has so far been done to trace the implications of this agenda for the most traditionally ‘ungodly’ part of Scotland – the Highlands. This article traces how the notion of ‘godliness’ influenced Cromwellian attitudes towards Highland Scotland, as well as exploring the ways in which government policy tried to affect religious and behavioural reformation among Highlanders. In so doing, the article seeks to shed light upon the nature of the English regime in Scotland, while also offering an under-appreciated insight into the mental realm of the Commonwealth state more broadly.

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Civility, order and the highlands in Cromwellian Britain

Kennedy¹

2018

Innes Review

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From Foreign Mercenaries to the King’s Trusted Companions—The Emergence of the Swedish–Scottish Recruitment Network 1556–1610

Schiavone,

Björklund

2023

Palgrave Studies in Migration History

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Fen Plantation: Commons, Calvinism, and the Boundaries of Belonging in Early Modern England

Robson

2024

J. Br. Stud.

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In the first half of the seventeenth century, several foreign plantations were established on wetlands drained during a wave of ambitious state-led projects across eastern England. The lines of solidarity and separation forged by this little-known episode in the history of migration pose important questions about how emergent notions of nationhood intersected with local and transnational, religious and economic communities. This article investigates the causes and consequences of the settlement of Calvinist refugees on drained commons in Hatfield Level. It argues that fen plantation expands understanding of the relationship between English agricultural improvement and imperial expansion in the British Atlantic, as migrant communities acted in the service of empires and states while forging transnational Protestant networks. As Calvinists and cultivators, however, the settlers were met with hostility in England. While the crown encouraged foreign plantation as a source of national prosperity, Laudian church authorities identified it as a threat to religious conformity, the state, and society, muddying depictions of English governors as guarantors of refugee rights. Local efforts to violently expel settlers from Hatfield Level, meanwhile, were rooted in fen commoners’ defense of customary rights, as parallel communities sought to enact rival environmental and economic models. The settler community interpreted these experiences through the lens of transnational Protestant adversity, entangling their quest for religious freedoms with their remit as fen improvers. Moving beyond dichotomous arguments about xenophobia, this article traces the transnational imaginaries, national visions, and emplaced processes through which collective identities and their sharp edges were constituted in early modern England.

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Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World

Cited by 6 publications

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Civility, order and the highlands in Cromwellian Britain

Civility, order and the highlands in Cromwellian Britain

From Foreign Mercenaries to the King’s Trusted Companions—The Emergence of the Swedish–Scottish Recruitment Network 1556–1610

Fen Plantation: Commons, Calvinism, and the Boundaries of Belonging in Early Modern England

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