The Lancashire and Cheshire Presbyterian Campaigns of 1646 and the Politics of Accommodation

This article explores the politics which lay behind the Presbyterian petitioning campaigns in Lancashire and Cheshire during 1646. Focusing particularly upon clerical activists, this article traces the linkages back to the petitioning campaigns of 1641-2 and highlights the continuities in both perso...

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Main Author: Mawdesley, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2024, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 457-479
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lancashire / Cheshire / Presbyterians / Church leadership / Petition / History 1620-1650
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBF British Isles
KDD Protestant Church
RB Church office; congregation
SA Church law; state-church law
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Summary:This article explores the politics which lay behind the Presbyterian petitioning campaigns in Lancashire and Cheshire during 1646. Focusing particularly upon clerical activists, this article traces the linkages back to the petitioning campaigns of 1641-2 and highlights the continuities in both personnel and an impulse for accommodation. The article unravels the networks which stretched between London and north-western England, and investigates how Presbyterian politics in London in 1646 might have influenced the Lancashire and Cheshire campaigns for a Presbyterian settlement of the Church. Finally, the article comments upon why the Lancashire campaign succeeded when the Cheshire campaign did not.
ISSN:1469-7637
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022046924000046