The Church of England, Comprehension and the Toleration Act of 1689

Spurr, John

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“…The 1689 Act of Toleration meant that dissenters could meet and worship openly, without the threat of prosecution, and elsewhere it appeared that the weight of nonconformist opinion was shifting reluctantly away from the idea of an inclusive national Church. 11 Indeed, even when faced with persecution for his nonconformity in the 1680s Thoresby did not mention the possibility of conformity, suggesting that the official status of dissent was not a defining influence on his allegiance. In fact, Thoresby's diary indicates that his shift was motivated by a wide range of factors rooted in both national and local religio-politics.…”

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Ralph Thoresby and individual devotion in late seventeenth‐ and early eighteenth‐century England

Sangha

2019

Hist Res

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This article is based on the spiritual life‐writing of puritan merchant and antiquarian Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725). It uses this material to explore patterns of individual devotion and contributes to our knowledge of the nature of contemporary spirituality, speaking to ongoing debates about reading practices, the nature of public and private forms of worship, and the creation of religious identities. It concludes that Thoresby’s personal devotion was fundamentally shaped by his friends, associates and the local context in which his life was embedded, yet beyond this distinctive local flavour strong similarities existed between Thoresby’s experience and that of other devout contemporaries.

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Ralph Thoresby and individual devotion in late seventeenth‐ and early eighteenth‐century England

Sangha

2019

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“…British measures intended as a compromise, to bring Presbyterians into the Anglican fold, led to moderate toleration for all Dissenters in 1688 [36][37][38]. Several Protestant faiths represented English Dissenters including Baptist, Unitarian, Quaker, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist.…”

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“…37 It was a sentiment shared by Garnier, who Malthus (after returning from Paris in 1820) informed Ricardo "attacked you violently" ( [151], p. 224). 38 Most French economists sided with Malthus and the Physiocrats (who favored agriculture) over Ricardo and J.-B. Say (who championed manufacturing) [19,20].…”

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Malthus and the Philanthropists, 1764–1859: The Cultural Circulation of Political Economy, Botany, and Natural Knowledge

MacDonald

2017

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Modernity does not possess a monopoly on mass incarceration, population fears, forced migration, famine, or climatic change. Indeed, contemporary and early modern concerns over these matters have extended interests in Thomas Malthus. Yet, despite extensive research on population issues, little work explicates the genesis of population knowledge production or how the process of intellectual transfer occurred during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This paper examines the Delessert network's instrumental role in cultivating, curating, and circulating knowledge that popularized Malthusian population theory, including the theory's constitutive elements of political economy, philanthropy, industry, agriculture, and botany. I show how deviant, nonconformist groups suffered forced migration for their political philosophy, particularly during the revolutionary 1790s, resulting in their imprisonment and migration to America. A consequence of these social shifts was the diffusion and dissemination of population theory-as a pursuit of scientific knowledge and exploration-across both sides of the Atlantic. By focusing on the Delesserts and their social network, I find that a byproduct of inter and intra continental migration among European elites was a knowledge exchange that stimulated Malthus's thesis on population and Genevan Augustin Pyramus Candolle's research on botany, ultimately culminating in Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection and human evolution.

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“…32 The English Toleration Act (1 William and Mary, c. 18) had offered Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England freedom of worship in exchange for disbarment from civic office. 33 The 1712 Scottish Toleration Act (10 Anne, c. 7), by contrast, offered freedom of worship to members of the dissenting Episcopalian Church of Scotland, while still offering those Episcopalian Dissenters full civil liberties. 34 That 1712 Act had been imposed on Scotland -Presbyterians said in contravention of the terms of the 1707 Act of Union -by the Westminster parliament; and it infuriated Scottish Presbyterians to be forced legally to countenance the Episcopalians, who were not only guilty of 'prelacy' but also had many among their number who were Jacobites.…”

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‘State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes’: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion^*

Ingram

2021

Parliamentary History

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This article examines the origins and implications of the Irish Toleration Act of 1719. It makes three related arguments. First, it highlights what Britons during the early 18th century thought religious toleration was meant to achieve and to whom and under what circumstances religious toleration might be extended. Second, it demonstrates the steady desacralisation of post‐revolutionary British politics, even in a country like Ireland so obviously riven along confessional lines. Finally, it contends that both the arguments for and against the Irish Toleration Act illustrate that the established churches in the composite post‐revolutionary British state were functionally civil religions.

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The Church of England, Comprehension and the Toleration Act of 1689

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Ralph Thoresby and individual devotion in late seventeenth‐ and early eighteenth‐century England

Ralph Thoresby and individual devotion in late seventeenth‐ and early eighteenth‐century England

Malthus and the Philanthropists, 1764–1859: The Cultural Circulation of Political Economy, Botany, and Natural Knowledge

‘State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes’: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion^*

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Ralph Thoresby and individual devotion in late seventeenth‐ and early eighteenth‐century England

Ralph Thoresby and individual devotion in late seventeenth‐ and early eighteenth‐century England

Malthus and the Philanthropists, 1764–1859: The Cultural Circulation of Political Economy, Botany, and Natural Knowledge

‘State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes’: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion*

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