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What's New About the Restoration?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2014

Tim Harris
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When I first began my researches into later Stuart history as a graduate student back in 1980, the Restoration was a relatively underdeveloped field of inquiry. Although there were a number of scholars producing excellent work in this area, there was not the same depth of scholarship as characterized study of the first half of the seventeenth century: wide gaps in our knowledge existed, and for some of the most crucial episodes of the period we were dependent upon a limited range of studies and dated works. The best general entrée into the period was still David Ogg's classic two-volume England in the Reign of Charles II, first published in 1934! A suitable modern textbook did not emerge until 1978, with the publication of J. R. Jones's County and Court: England 1658–1714, a book that had neither Ogg's range nor lively analytical style. For our understanding of why the monarchy was restored we were reliant upon a study that had come out in 1955, which was supplemented only in 1980 by Austin Woolrych's book-length “Historical Introduction” to volume seven of the Yale edition of the Complete Prose Works of John Milton. On the Exclusion Crisis we had J. R. Jones's The First Whigs, which had appeared in 1961, although for the first Tories we still needed to use Sir Keith Feiling's 1924 History of the Tory Party. For the Glorious Revolution we had a book written by a man who tragically died (at a young age) before he could complete the work, and another self-consciously thought-provoking work designed to raise questions and suggest future avenues of research—both excellent studies in their own right, but hardly the plethora of monographs that we possessed for the mid-century revolution.

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Albion , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , Summer 1997 , pp. 187 - 222
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I would like to thank Mark Goldie, Dick Greaves, and Mike Moore for their comments and criticisms on earlier drafts of this article. I also am indebted to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the award of a fellowship for the academic year 1996–97, during which time this article was conceived and written.

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24 For the impact of persecution and how the penal laws were enforced, see in particular Fletcher, A. J., “The Enforcement of the Conventicle Acts 1664–1679,” in Persecution and Toleration ed. Sheils, W. J. (Studies in Church History, 21: Oxford, 1984), pp. 235–46Google Scholar; Harris, Tim, London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis (Cambridge, 1987), ch. 4Google Scholar; Horle, Craig W., The Quakers and the English Legal System, 1660–1688 (Philadelphia, 1988)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For nonconformist writing and the literary response to persecution in Restoration England see Keeble, N. H., The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Seventeenth-Century England (Athens, Ga., 1987)Google Scholar. The Quakers are the best studied of the sects. In addition to Horle's book, see: Ingle, H. Larry, First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism (Oxford, 1994)Google Scholar; Kunze, Bonnelyn, Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism (Stanford, 1994)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. There also has been a recent renaissance in Bunyon studies. See especially Hill, Christopher, A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628–1688 (Oxford, 1988)Google Scholar; Mullett, Michael, John Bunyan in Context (Keele, 1996)Google Scholar.

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32 Champion, J. A. I., The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660–1730 (Cambridge, 1992)Google Scholar. See also Goldie, Mark, “Priestcraft and the Birth of Whiggism,” in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, eds. Phillipson, N. and Skinner, Q. (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 209–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

33 Insight into how one prominent lay Puritan (of sorts) adjusted to the changed political climate of the Restoration is provided in Cromartie, Hale, part II.

34 Whiteman, Anne, ed., The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition (London, 1986)Google Scholar.

35 Jones, , Charles I, p. 1Google Scholar. An emphasis on discontinuity looks like it is being revived with a vengeance. The question of what was new about the Restoration was the theme of a lively conference organized by Alan Houston and Steven Pincus at the Huntington Library in November 1996, under the title of A Nation Transformed? Its proceedings are to be published shortly.

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43 I am grateful for discussions with Blair Worden and Peter Lake on this point.

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54 For the Restoration press in general, see Sutherland, James, The Restoration Newspaper and its Development (Cambridge, 1986)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Two valuable unpublished dissertations are: Smith, Timothy, “Francis Smith and the Opposition Press in England, 1660–1688” (University of Cambridge, 1977)Google Scholar; Hetet, John S. T., “A Literary Underground in Restoration England: Printers and Dissenters in the Context of Constraints” (University of Cambridge, 1987)Google Scholar. Sommerville, C. John, The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (Oxford, 1996)Google Scholar, which covers the century as a whole, is somewhat disappointing on the Restoration.

55 It should be emphasized that a belief in royal absolutism and a commitment to the rule of law were not necessarily antithetical. Absolute monarchs were supposed to rule in accordance with the law.

56 In a literal sense, this charge was accurate. For the argument that Calvinist resistance theory owed little to Calvinism and much to Catholic intellectual traditions—Conciliarist and Jesuit—see Skinner, Quentin, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1978)Google Scholar.

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72 In London Crowds I made extensive use of the political poems of the period. Researchers should not rely on the published edition of Poems on Affairs of State by Yale University Press, because the editors made the unfortunate decision to include only those poems with some claim to literary merit; many of the most interesting poems, from a political point of view, were thereby excluded, for which we have to go back to the original manuscript collections (many of them are in the British Library, the Bodleian, and the Huntington).

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