Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 War, Privilege and the Norman Connection, 1370–1435
- 2 Military Defeat and Civil Conflict, 1435–1485
- 3 Centralisation and its Limits under Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485–1547
- 4 Political and Religious Strife, 1547–1569
- 5 War and the Development of Autonomy, 1570–1604
- 6 The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605–1640
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605–1640
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 War, Privilege and the Norman Connection, 1370–1435
- 2 Military Defeat and Civil Conflict, 1435–1485
- 3 Centralisation and its Limits under Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485–1547
- 4 Political and Religious Strife, 1547–1569
- 5 War and the Development of Autonomy, 1570–1604
- 6 The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605–1640
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The reigns of James and Charles see a striking divergence, between a religious policy increasingly insistent on bringing Anglicanism to the islands, and a continued tendency to strengthen jurisdictional autonomy. The growing confidence of local lay and ecclesiastical communities seen in the later part of Elizabeth's reign became even more strikingly apparent in the face of these developments. A respect for island privileges was just as evident in the decades of peace that James' accession ushered in as it had been in the war years of the later sixteenth century, suggesting that military crisis was not the essential or even a major factor in sustaining these attitudes. Still, this chapter also allows for consideration of the interaction between the pressure for religious change and the eventual return to war against Spain and French Catholicism seen in the 1620s. This is also the point at which this study most directly interacts with the broader historiography of the early modern British Isles, for as noted earlier it is in discussion of James's and especially Charles's overall royal policies that Jersey and Guernsey have most prominently played a part. This chapter allows us to consider an important instance of the activity of two of the allegedly most interventionist centralising regimes of the pre-modern period and to understand something of the nature and origins of their purpose, their methods, and the reaction to what they attempted.
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- The Channel Islands, 1370–1640Between England and Normandy, pp. 132 - 150Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012